Yo-Kai Watch: Taniyo no
Himitsuda-Nyan! (The Secret of
the Invention) is a mega hit franchise original feature film that was
launched on Japan last weekend on 408 screens. The time travel film, Yo-Kai
Watch, garnered an outstanding 1,628,893,000 yen from 1,485,000 movie ticket
sales within two days after its release, changing the 2000 Japanese film
weekend opening record calculation method from movie revenue to box-office
profits. Yo-Kai Watch was the highest grossing film in the history of Toho
distribution. The record before was 1,480,000,000 yen gross by Howl’s Moving Castle anime film by Hayao
Miyazaki launched on 2004. Toho is expecting the film to earn more than 6
billion yen after its run.
Other films in the record is Disney animation’s Big Hero 6 film in 3D animation as “Baymax” in Japan ranked 2nd with 600 million yen gross
on 464,000 audience, also second for a Disney film in Japan, ranking next best
after Frozen’s (“Anna and the Snow Queen” in Japan) 763,389,450 yen profit earlier
this year.
