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Live-Action Cells at Work! Drops to #2 After 5 Weeks

The live-action Hataraku Saibō) manga dropped from #1 to #2 in the Japanese box office in its fifth weekend. The film sold 243,000 tickets from Friday through Sunday earning 337,461,540 yen ($2.13 million). It has sold a total of 3.65 million tickets, and earned a cumulative total of 4,720,850,060 yen ($29.90 million).

The film opened in Japan on December 13 and ranked at #1. The film sold a total of 612,000 tickets and earned a total of 844,768,310 yen ($5.49 million) in its first three days.

The film has 4D (4DX and MX4D) and IMAX screenings in Japan.

performed the theme song "50%."

The live-action Kodoku no Gourmet (Solitary Gourmet) manga ranked at #3 in its opening weekend. The film earned 167,000 tickets and earned 242 million yen ($1.53 million) in its first three days.

The film is based on the manga's live-action series. The series' lead actor screened at the Tokyo International Film Festival, which ran from October 28 to November 6 last year.

The film is part of the Kodoku no Gourmet Project, which celebrates the series' 12 years of broadcast and TV Tokyo's 60th anniversary. The staff also announced Sorezore no Kodoku no Gourmet (To Each Their Own Solitary Gourmet), a program that debuted on October 4 last year. The omnibus series follows various main characters (besides Yutaka Matsushige's Gorō, who was the main character in all the previous projects) on their own culinary journeys.

Both the Kodoku no Gourmet live-action series and original manga follow a solitary salesman named Gorō Inagashira as he travels all over Japan and samples the local cuisine found on street corners. The live-action show's 10th season premiered in October 2022.

franchise in 13 years, rose from #6 to #5 in its fourth weekend. The film earned 192,527,694 yen ($1.21 million) from Friday to Sunday. The film has sold a total of 920,000 tickets, and earned a cumulative total of 1,244,988,264 yen ($7.88 million).

The film opened in Japan on December 20. It sold 198,000 tickets in its first weekend, including advanced screenings, earning 295 million yen ($1.87 million) from Thursday through Sunday.

The movie is based on Kazuhisa Sakaguchi's 2013 novel of the same name, which centers on Rantaro's teacher Hansuke Doi losing a battle against Sonnamon and Zatto Konnamon becoming a teacher at Ninjutsu Academy.

Jōichirō Fujiwara appear in the film as guest voice actors.

Ajia-do, the same animation studio for the television series. Original novel writer Sakaguchi wrote the screenplay.

Saint Oniisan The Movie ~Holy Men vs Akuma Gundan~ (Holy Men vs Demon Army), the first live-action Saint Young Men (Saint Oniisan) manga, dropped from #8 to #10 in its fourth weekend. The film earned 36,573,700 yen ($231,600) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative total of 723,056,200 yen ($4.57 million).

TOHO opened the film on December 20. It debuted at #6 at the box office.

The comedy manga imagines if Buddha and Jesus shared a low-rent Tokyo apartment with no bathroom.

The returning cast and staff from the manga's previous live-action The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. films) is returning to direct the film and pen the script based on an extended story ("Screen e no Nagai Michi" or The Long Road to the Big Screen) that Nakamura created for the film.

Oshi no Ko manga, dropped off the top 10 in its fourth weekend, but still earned 33,913,100 yen ($214,700) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative total of 498,466,800 yen ($3.15 million).

The live-action Fushigi Dagashiya Zenitendō dropped off the top 10 in its fifth weekend.

Sources: Kōgyō Tsūshin(link 2), comScore via KOFIC