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The Golden Week means there’s many new movies and a fierce competition at the box office. After all it’s the time of the greatest profits for the movie industry in Japan. ‘Meitantei Conan: Zekkai no Private Eye‘ remained as strong as during its first weekend and defended its place at the top.

The next four places were taken by new movies such as ‘Iron Man 3‘ in second and ‘Kamen Rider × Super Sentai × Space Sheriff: Super Hero Taisen Z‘ in third place. ‘Iron Man 3′ did really well at the box office, but ‘Super Hero Taisen Z’ did much worse compared to the previous movie in the franchise. However, it’s expected to bounce back during the remaining Golden Week holidays.

‘Toshokan Sensou‘ – starring Okada Junichi and Eikura Nana – opened in at fourth place and the numbers leave much room for improvement as well. It seems that the top movies in the chart took away too many of the potential weekend moviegoers, so that the remaining movies only achieved mediocre results at best. The remaining Golden Week should fix this imbalance at the box office.

More new movies include ‘Wara no Tate‘ – directed by Miike Takashi – on fifth place and ‘The Last Stand‘ on ninth place.

Don’t forget to check out the trailers of all the new Japanese films below the box office chart!

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Japan Box Office Chart – April 27th/28th

01 (01) Meitantei Conan: Zekkai no Private Eye (Weeks: 02)
02 (00) Iron Man 3 (Weeks: 01)
03 (00) Kamen Rider × Super Sentai × Space Sheriff: Super Hero Taisen Z (Weeks: 01)
04 (00) Toshokan Sensou (Weeks: 01)
05 (00) Wara no Tate (Weeks: 01)
06 (02) Eiga Crayon Shin-chan: Bakauma! B-Kyuu Gourmet Survival Battle!! (Weeks: 02)
07 (03) Lincoln (Weeks: 02)
08 (04) Dragon Ball Z: Kami to Kami (Weeks: 05)
09 (00) The Last Stand (Weeks: 01)
10 (06) Fune wo Amu (Weeks: 03)

(Note: The ranking is not based on the revenue, but the number of sold tickets!)

Short Facts:

- ‘Meitantei Conan’ cumulative results – viewers: 1,376,741 / revenue: 1,644,856,300 Yen (16,746,282 USD)
- ‘Iron Man 3′ opened with 273,776 viewers (535 screens) and a revenue of 414,675,650 Yen (4,221,812 USD)
- ‘Iron Man 3′ cumulative results (4 days) – viewers: 526,878 / revenue: 793,408,450 Yen (8,077,691 USD)
- ‘Super Hero Taisen Z’ opened with 201,006 viewers (289 screens) and a revenue of 233,504,650 Yen (2,377,310 USD)
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- ‘Toshokan Sensou’ opened with 164,178 viewers (311 screens) and a revenue of 216,812,800 Yen (2,207,371 USD)
- ‘Toshokan Sensou’ statistics: 22% men / 78% women; 23% in their twenties, 22.5% in their late teens, 17.7% in their forties, 14.5% in their thirties
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- ‘Wara no Tate’ opened with 145,148 viewers (325 screens) and a revenue of 186,928,400 Yen (1,903,118 USD)
- ‘Crayon Shin-chan’ cumulative results – viewers: 472,185 / revenue: 534,817,100 Yen (5,444,972 USD)
- ‘Dragon Ball Z’ cumulative results – viewers: 2,181,328 / revenue: 2,668,081,600 Yen (27,163,738 USD)
- ‘The Last Stand’ opened with 68,234 viewers and a revenue of 81,386,200 Yen (828,592 USD)
- ‘Fune wo Amu’ cumulative results – viewers: 421,703 / revenue: 496,721,550 Yen (5,057,122 USD)

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Trailers of all Japanese films that opened this weekend:

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Kamen Rider × Super Sentai × Space Sheriff:
Super Hero Taisen Z

仮面ライダー×スーパー戦隊×宇宙刑事 スーパーヒーロー大戦Z

Genre: Action, Tokusatsu

Director: Kaneda Osamu

Cast:
Ishigaki Yuma
Ikeda Junya
Komiya Arisa
Shirashi Shunya
Okunaka Makoto
Nagase Tasuku
and many many more…

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Toshokan Sensou

図書館戦争

Genre: Science Fiction, Action

Director: Sato Shinsuke

Cast:
Okada Junichi
Eikura Nana
Tanaka Kei
Kuriyama Chiaki
Ishizaka Koji
Fukushi Sota
and more…

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Wara no Tate

藁の楯

Genre: Suspense, Action

Director: Miike Takashi

Cast:
Osawa Takao
Matsushima Nanako
Fujiwara Tatsuya
Kishitani Goro
Ibu Masato
Nagayama Kento
and more…

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Monster

モンスター

Genre: Human Drama [Rated R-15]

Director: Oku Akiko

Cast:
Takaoka Saki
Kato Masaya
Murakami Jun
Osugi Ren
and more…

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Sensou to Hitori no Onna

戦争と一人の女

Genre: Sensual Human Drama [Rated R-18]

Director: Inoue Junichi

Cast:
Eguchi Noriko
Nagasema Satoshi
Murakami Jun
Emoto Akira
Takao Sakiko
Oshima Hako
and more…

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Shura no Daishou

修羅の代償

Genre: Action, Drama

Director: Tsuji Hiroyuki

Cast:
Ozawa Hitoshi
Kimura Kazuya
Hashimoto Manami
Noguchi Masahiro
KOJI
Kimura Keisaku
and more…

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KAITOKUTAN – Kishibe Chou Kidan

怪特探 KAITOKUTAN 岸部町奇談

Genre: Suspense

Director: Hayashi Kazuyoshi

Cast:
Kudo Nana
Saeto
Achiwa Ryosuke
Hirose Sakika
Kishida Eriko
Hayashi Kazuyoshi
and more…

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