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| Movies & Specials Guide | Koko
How did Pocket
Monsters The Movie "Koko" do during its time in Japanese
theaters?
This page provides a detailed week-by-week look at how the
franchise's 23rd movie did at the Japanese box office.
In its first week in theaters, Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" came in as the Number 2 movie in Japan.
Entertainment website Kogyo Tsushin provided the box office numbers. Over the two-day weekend, Saturday the 26th and Sunday the 27th, the movie was watched by 234,000 people and earned 276 million yen. Over the three-day weekend (Friday the 25th ~ Sunday the 27th) it was watched by 320,000 people and earned 378 million yen.
Here's how the Top Ten looked during the 23rd movie's opening weekend:
Source: Kogyo Tsushin (posted December 28th, 2020)
First place went to Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba The Movie: Mugen Train, a film that had spent its entire eleven-week run up until that point in the Number 1 spot and had even gone on to become the #1 top earning film in Japanese history. The Number Three spot went to Romance of the Three Kingdoms - The New Interpretation.
Other new films debuting this weekend include Poupelle of Chimney Town, which came in at Number Four, and Josee, the Tiger and the Fish, which debuted at Number Nine.
The entertainment website Kogyo Tsushin has provided the box office numbers. Over the two-day weekend, Saturday the 26th and Sunday the 27th, the movie was watched by 234,000 people and earned 276 million yen. Over the three-day weekend (Friday the 25th ~ Sunday the 27th) it was watched by 320,000 people and earned 378 million yen.
When you put Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" up against the more recent films you'll see that it had the worst opening weekend of any Pokemon movie in Japan since...well, since pretty much ever.
Reasons for the low numbers may include how the end of the year is traditionally a slow period for the box office in Japan combined with the effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
In its second week in theaters (January 2nd - January 3rd) Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" dropped to fourth place.
Here's how the Top Ten looked during the 23rd movie's second week in theaters:
Source: Kogyo Tsushin (posted January 4th, 2021)
The Top Ten this week was mostly just a reshuffling of the films that were in the charts last week. First place went to Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba The Movie: Mugen Train, which is currently in its twelfth consecutive week in the Number One spot and is probably not going anywhere anytime soon. The Number Two spot went to Romance of the Three Kingdoms - The New Interpretation and Number Three went to Poupelle of Chimney Town, which is coming in one rank higher this week than it did in its opening weekend.
The only new film to join the Top Ten this week is the Japanese premiere of Peninsula, a zombie film originally released in South Korea back in July that was eventually released in the U.S. under the title Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula. The film Josee, the Tiger and the Fish, which came out the same day as the 23rd Pokémon movie, has already fallen out of the Top Ten.
The website Kogyo Tsushin is also reporting that the film has been seen by an additional 115,000 people over the weekend and earned 139 million yen. This puts the film's total at 517 million yen altogether.
The weekend of January 9th - 10th was the first weekend after the Japanese government made a state of emergency declaration for the greater Tokyo area. How did Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" fare?
Here's how the Top Ten looked during the 23rd movie's third week in theaters:
Source: Kogyo Tsushin (posted January 12th, 2021)
Newcomer Gintama: The Final, a film based on the final parts of the long-running Shonen Jump manga, actually managed to dethrone Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba The Movie: Mugen Train as the Number One movie in Japan over the weekend. The arrival of the new Gintama movie caused the other films at the top of the charts -- Romance of the Three Kingdoms - The New Interpretation, Poupelle of Chimney Town, and Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" -- to all slide down a spot as a result.
We don't know how much money the 23rd Pocket Monsters made in its third week. Kogyo Tsushin reports that the Number Three film, Romance of the Three Kingdoms - The New Interpretation, made 3.4 billion yen over the weekend so we at least know that the newest Pokémon movie brought in less than that. But beyond that we don't know.
Other newcomers this week are Perfect Strangers: Smartphone no Nozoitara, a Japanese remake of the Italian film Perfetti sconosciuti, and Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Eternal The Movie (Part One), the first of two Sailor Moon Crystal-style retellings of the Sailor Moon SuperS story.
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshide Suga declared a new state of emergency for Tokyo and three other prefectures last week due to the nation's worsening COVID-19 situation. Movie theaters are among the businesses being asked to close at 8:00pm under this declaration. Of the 435 theaters currently screening Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" nationwide a whopping 105 of them are located in the four affected areas. A new state of emergency targeting the Osaka, Kyoto, and Hyogo areas would be declared later in the week.
There's not much to report for Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" 's fourth week in theaters as it managed to hold onto its Number 5 ranking for another week.
First, a look at the Top Ten:
Source: Kogyo Tsushin (posted January 18th, 2021)
According to Kogyo Tsushin, Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" has been seen by a total of 1,140,000 people and has made 1.3 billion yen so far.
The only other newcomer to the Top 10 this week is Natsume's Book of Friends - The Stone Waker & The Suspicious Visitor, the second Natsume's Book of Friends movie.
It has now officially been one full month since Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" hit theaters. How's it doing in the box office?
First, a look at the Top Ten:
Source: Kogyo Tsushin (posted January 25th, 2021)
According to Kogyo Tsushin, Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" has been seen by a total of 1,210,000 people and has made 1.4 billion yen so far. For comparison's sake, 2019's Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution was able to make 1.7 billion yen -- 300,000 yen more than Koko's current total -- after only three weeks in theaters.
The only other newcomer to the Top 10 this week is The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window, a live action adaptation of the supernatural / boys' love manga.
How did Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" do at the Japanese box office the last weekend in January?
First, a look at the Top Ten:
Source: Kogyo Tsushin (posted February 1st, 2021)
The 23rd Pocket Monsters movie fell two spots to come in at seventh place in its sixth week in theaters. Unfortunately, no new box office earnings were provided for the week.
The rest of the Top Ten was shaken up by the debut of three new films; We Had a Love Like a Bouquet of Flowers, a love story about two young people who met after missing their last train, took the Number One spot from Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba; The Family, a film about the yakuza that deals with the concept of found family, came in at Number Five; and The End of the Tiny World, about a trio of childhood friends whose lives change once they become adults, came in at Number Six.
Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" spent its seventh week in seventh place in the Japanese box office.
First, a look at the Top Ten:
Source: Kogyo Tsushin (posted February 8th, 2021)
Director Tetsuo Yajima's second Pocket Monsters film kept its seventh place ranking for the second week in a row. No new box office information has been provided for the week.
The rest of the Top Ten includes the debut of Suicide Forest Village, a horror film by director Takashi Shimizu ("The Grudge"); Endless SHOCK, the film version of the famous Japanese stage musical; and The Melancholy Cinderella, a film touted as being a suspenseful never-before-seen look related to the famous fairy tale.
The Valentine's Day weekend saw Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" fall from seventh to ninth place in the Japanese box office.
First, a look at the Top Ten:
Source: Kogyo Tsushin (posted February 15th, 2021)
The entertainment website Kogyo Tsushin is reporting that, to-date, Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" has been seen by 1,360,000 people and has passed the 1.5 billion yen mark. For comparison's sake, 2019's Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution managed to earn 1.7 billion yen in only three weeks, and 2018's Pocket Monsters The Movie "Everyone's Story" earned 1.6 billion yen in, again, only three weeks. Movie 23 taking almost three times as long to reach that same milestone is...not great.
This week the 23rd Pocket Monsters film was joined in the Top Ten by Detective Conan: The Scarlet Alibi, a compilation film being released to prepare audiences for the franchise's 24th film; First Love, aa suspense mystery about a university student accused of killing her own father; and Under the Open Sky, a sorta-kinda biopic about a real life serial killer. Conspicuously absent from the Top Ten this week is Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal The Movie (Part Two), which hit Japanese theaters on Thursday the 11th.
It took nine weeks but it's finally happened; Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" has fallen out of the Japanese box office's Top Ten.
Based on information posted by Kogyo Tsushin it seems that the debuts of romantic comedy Liar x Liar and the latest super sentai film Mashin Sentai Kiramager The Movie "Bebop Dream" pushed last week's Number 9 and Number 10 movies -- Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" and The Family -- out of the Top Ten.
In its tenth week in theaters, Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" rose from the dead and rejoined the Japanese Box Office Top Ten.
A look at the Top Ten:
Source: Kogyo Tsushin (posted March 1st, 2021)
The same website reports that the 23rd Pocket Monsters movie has been seen by 1,440,000 people and has passed the 1.6 billion yen mark.
No new movies joined the Top Ten this week; it was mostly just a reshuffling of the deck chairs. What's interesting is that Pocket Monsters isn't the only film to go up a few spots compared to last week; Gintama: The Final also jumped up from the Number 10 spot all the way up to Number 5.
Is Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" getting a second wind? For the second week in a row the 23rd Pocket Monsters movie is doing better than it did the week before.
Here's a look at the Top Ten:
Source: Kogyo Tsushin (posted March 8st, 2021)
As you can see, Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" climbed up two spots from its Number 9 ranking the previous week, which itself was two spots higher than it had placed the week before that. Unfortunately, no new box office earnings figures are being reported.
The newcomers this week are Taiyou wa Ugokanai, a thriller starring a couple of actors who both have happened to appear in a couple of Pokémon movies in the past, by the way; Disney's newest animated film Raya and the Last Dragon; and ARIA The CREPUSCOLO, a new film to celebrate the franchise's 15th anniversary.
In its twelfth week in theaters Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" fell out of the Top Ten for a second time.
The new films debuting during Movie 23's twelfth week in theaters are Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time, the fourth and final film in the Rebuild of Evangelion series; Brave Gunjo Senki, a film about members of various high school sports teams finding themselves traveling back in time to the Sengoku period; and Shimajiro The Movie "Shimajiro and the Flying Ship," a film version of the TV-Tokyo kids' program.
| Week One (Friday, December 25th - Sunday,
December 27th) |
In its first week in theaters, Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" came in as the Number 2 movie in Japan.
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Entertainment website Kogyo Tsushin provided the box office numbers. Over the two-day weekend, Saturday the 26th and Sunday the 27th, the movie was watched by 234,000 people and earned 276 million yen. Over the three-day weekend (Friday the 25th ~ Sunday the 27th) it was watched by 320,000 people and earned 378 million yen.
Here's how the Top Ten looked during the 23rd movie's opening weekend:
| Rank |
Last
Week |
Title |
Distributor |
Weeks
in Theaters |
| 1 |
1 |
Demon
Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba The Movie: Mugen Train |
Toho,
Aniplex |
11 |
| 2 |
NEW | Pocket
Monsters The Movie "Koko" |
Toho |
1 |
| 3 |
2 |
Romance of the Three Kingdoms - The New Interpretation | Toho | 3 |
| 4 |
NEW |
Poupelle
of Chimney Town |
Toho,
Yoshimoto |
1 |
| 5 |
3 |
The
Promised Neverland |
Toho |
2 |
| 6 |
4 |
Stand
By Me - Doraemon 2 |
Toho |
6 |
| 7 |
6 |
Wonder Woman 1984 | Warner Bros | 2 |
| 8 |
5 | Kamen
Rider Saber The Movie / Kamen Rider Zero-One The Movie |
Toei |
2 |
| 9 |
NEW | Josee,
the Tiger and the Fish |
Shochiku,
Kadokawa |
1 |
| 10 |
8 |
Tengaramon | Giggly Box | 3 |
Source: Kogyo Tsushin (posted December 28th, 2020)
First place went to Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba The Movie: Mugen Train, a film that had spent its entire eleven-week run up until that point in the Number 1 spot and had even gone on to become the #1 top earning film in Japanese history. The Number Three spot went to Romance of the Three Kingdoms - The New Interpretation.
Other new films debuting this weekend include Poupelle of Chimney Town, which came in at Number Four, and Josee, the Tiger and the Fish, which debuted at Number Nine.
The entertainment website Kogyo Tsushin has provided the box office numbers. Over the two-day weekend, Saturday the 26th and Sunday the 27th, the movie was watched by 234,000 people and earned 276 million yen. Over the three-day weekend (Friday the 25th ~ Sunday the 27th) it was watched by 320,000 people and earned 378 million yen.
When you put Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" up against the more recent films you'll see that it had the worst opening weekend of any Pokemon movie in Japan since...well, since pretty much ever.
| Year |
Movie
Title |
Dates |
Earnings
(JPY) |
| 2020 |
Pocket Monsters The
Movie "Koko" |
12/26
- 12/27 |
275
million |
| 2019 |
Mewtwo Strikes
Back Evolution |
7/13
- 7/14 |
553
million |
| 2019 |
Pokémon:
Detective Pikachu |
5/4
- 5/5 |
457 million |
| 2018 |
Pocket Monsters
The Movie "Everyone's Story" |
7/14
- 7/15 |
500
million |
| 2017 |
Pocket Monsters
The Movie "I Choose You!" |
7/15
- 7/16 |
516
million |
| 2016 |
Pokémon
the movie XY&Z "Volcanion and the Tricky Magearna" |
7/16
- 7/17 |
323
million |
Reasons for the low numbers may include how the end of the year is traditionally a slow period for the box office in Japan combined with the effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
| Week Two (Saturday, January 2nd - Sunday,
January 3rd) |
In its second week in theaters (January 2nd - January 3rd) Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" dropped to fourth place.
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Here's how the Top Ten looked during the 23rd movie's second week in theaters:
| Rank |
Last
Week |
Title |
Distributor |
Weeks
in Theaters |
| 1 |
1 |
Demon
Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba The Movie: Mugen Train |
Toho,
Aniplex |
12 |
| 2 |
3 |
Romance of the Three Kingdoms - The New Interpretation | Toho | 4 |
| 3 |
4 |
Poupelle
of Chimney Town |
Toho,
Yoshimoto |
2 |
| 4 |
2 |
Pocket
Monsters The Movie "Koko" |
Toho |
2 |
| 5 |
5 |
The
Promised Neverland |
Toho |
3 |
| 6 |
6 |
Stand
By Me - Doraemon 2 |
Toho |
7 |
| 7 |
NEW |
Peninsula |
Gaga |
1 |
| 8 |
7 |
Wonder Woman 1984 | Warner Bros | 3 |
| 9 |
10 |
Tengaramon | Giggly Box | 4 |
| 10 |
8 |
Kamen
Rider Saber The Movie / Kamen Rider Zero-One The Movie |
Toei |
3 |
Source: Kogyo Tsushin (posted January 4th, 2021)
The Top Ten this week was mostly just a reshuffling of the films that were in the charts last week. First place went to Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba The Movie: Mugen Train, which is currently in its twelfth consecutive week in the Number One spot and is probably not going anywhere anytime soon. The Number Two spot went to Romance of the Three Kingdoms - The New Interpretation and Number Three went to Poupelle of Chimney Town, which is coming in one rank higher this week than it did in its opening weekend.
The only new film to join the Top Ten this week is the Japanese premiere of Peninsula, a zombie film originally released in South Korea back in July that was eventually released in the U.S. under the title Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula. The film Josee, the Tiger and the Fish, which came out the same day as the 23rd Pokémon movie, has already fallen out of the Top Ten.
The website Kogyo Tsushin is also reporting that the film has been seen by an additional 115,000 people over the weekend and earned 139 million yen. This puts the film's total at 517 million yen altogether.
| Week Three (Saturday, January 9th -
Sunday,
January 10th) |
The weekend of January 9th - 10th was the first weekend after the Japanese government made a state of emergency declaration for the greater Tokyo area. How did Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" fare?
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Here's how the Top Ten looked during the 23rd movie's third week in theaters:
| Rank |
Last
Week |
Title |
Distributor |
Weeks
in Theaters |
| 1 |
NEW | Gintama:
The Final |
Warner |
1 |
| 2 |
1 |
Demon
Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba The Movie: Mugen Train |
Toho,
Aniplex |
13 |
| 3 |
2 |
Romance of the Three Kingdoms - The New Interpretation | Toho | 5 |
| 4 |
3 |
Poupelle
of Chimney Town |
Toho,
Yoshimoto |
3 |
| 5 |
4 |
Pocket
Monsters The Movie "Koko" |
Toho |
3 |
| 6 |
5 |
The
Promised Neverland |
Toho |
4 |
| 7 |
6 |
Stand
By Me - Doraemon 2 |
Toho |
8 |
| 8 |
NEW | Perfect
Strangers: Smartphone o Nozoitara |
Sony |
1 |
| 9 |
NEW | Pretty
Soldier Sailor Moon Eternal The Movie (Part One) |
Toei |
1 |
| 10 |
7 |
Peninsula |
Gaga |
2 |
Source: Kogyo Tsushin (posted January 12th, 2021)
Newcomer Gintama: The Final, a film based on the final parts of the long-running Shonen Jump manga, actually managed to dethrone Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba The Movie: Mugen Train as the Number One movie in Japan over the weekend. The arrival of the new Gintama movie caused the other films at the top of the charts -- Romance of the Three Kingdoms - The New Interpretation, Poupelle of Chimney Town, and Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" -- to all slide down a spot as a result.
We don't know how much money the 23rd Pocket Monsters made in its third week. Kogyo Tsushin reports that the Number Three film, Romance of the Three Kingdoms - The New Interpretation, made 3.4 billion yen over the weekend so we at least know that the newest Pokémon movie brought in less than that. But beyond that we don't know.
Other newcomers this week are Perfect Strangers: Smartphone no Nozoitara, a Japanese remake of the Italian film Perfetti sconosciuti, and Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Eternal The Movie (Part One), the first of two Sailor Moon Crystal-style retellings of the Sailor Moon SuperS story.
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshide Suga declared a new state of emergency for Tokyo and three other prefectures last week due to the nation's worsening COVID-19 situation. Movie theaters are among the businesses being asked to close at 8:00pm under this declaration. Of the 435 theaters currently screening Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" nationwide a whopping 105 of them are located in the four affected areas. A new state of emergency targeting the Osaka, Kyoto, and Hyogo areas would be declared later in the week.
| Week Four (Saturday, January 16th -
Sunday,
January 17th) |
There's not much to report for Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" 's fourth week in theaters as it managed to hold onto its Number 5 ranking for another week.
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First, a look at the Top Ten:
| Rank |
Last
Week |
Title |
Distributor |
Weeks
in Theaters |
| 1 |
2 |
Demon
Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba The Movie: Mugen Train |
Toho,
Aniplex |
14 |
| 2 |
1 |
Gintama:
The Final |
Warner |
2 |
| 3 |
4 |
Poupelle
of Chimney Town |
Toho,
Yoshimoto |
4 |
| 4 |
3 |
Romance of the Three Kingdoms - The New Interpretation | Toho | 6 |
| 5 |
5 |
Pocket
Monsters The Movie "Koko" |
Toho |
4 |
| 6 |
6 |
The
Promised Neverland |
Toho |
5 |
| 7 |
NEW | Natsume's
Book of Friends - The Stone Waker & The Suspicious Visitor |
Aniplex |
1 |
| 8 |
7 |
Stand
By Me - Doraemon 2 |
Toho |
9 |
| 9 |
10 |
Peninsula |
Gaga |
3 |
| 10 |
9 |
Pretty
Soldier Sailor Moon Eternal The Movie (Part One) |
Toei |
2 |
Source: Kogyo Tsushin (posted January 18th, 2021)
According to Kogyo Tsushin, Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" has been seen by a total of 1,140,000 people and has made 1.3 billion yen so far.
The only other newcomer to the Top 10 this week is Natsume's Book of Friends - The Stone Waker & The Suspicious Visitor, the second Natsume's Book of Friends movie.
| Week Five (Saturday, January 23rd -
Sunday,
January 24th) |
It has now officially been one full month since Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" hit theaters. How's it doing in the box office?
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First, a look at the Top Ten:
| Rank |
Last
Week |
Title |
Distributor |
Weeks
in Theaters |
| 1 |
1 |
Demon
Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba The Movie: Mugen Train |
Toho,
Aniplex |
15 |
| 2 |
2 |
Gintama:
The Final |
Warner |
3 |
| 3 |
3 |
Poupelle
of Chimney Town |
Toho,
Yoshimoto |
5 |
| 4 |
NEW |
The
Night Beyond the Tricornered Window |
Morigaki
Yukihiro |
1 |
| 5 |
5 |
Pocket
Monsters The Movie "Koko" |
Toho |
5 |
| 6 |
4 |
Romance of the Three Kingdoms - The New Interpretation | Toho | 7 |
| 7 |
6 |
The
Promised Neverland |
Toho |
6 |
| 8 |
8 |
Stand
By Me - Doraemon 2 |
Toho |
10 |
| 9 |
7 |
Natsume's
Book of Friends - The Stone Waker & The Suspicious Visitor |
Aniplex |
2 |
| 10 |
9 |
Peninsula |
Gaga |
4 |
Source: Kogyo Tsushin (posted January 25th, 2021)
According to Kogyo Tsushin, Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" has been seen by a total of 1,210,000 people and has made 1.4 billion yen so far. For comparison's sake, 2019's Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution was able to make 1.7 billion yen -- 300,000 yen more than Koko's current total -- after only three weeks in theaters.
The only other newcomer to the Top 10 this week is The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window, a live action adaptation of the supernatural / boys' love manga.
| Week Six (Saturday, January 30th -
Sunday,
January 31st) |
How did Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" do at the Japanese box office the last weekend in January?
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|
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First, a look at the Top Ten:
| Rank |
Last
Week |
Title |
Distributor |
Weeks
in Theaters |
| 1 |
NEW | We
Had a Love Like a Bouquet of Flowers |
Tokyo
Theatres, Little More |
1 |
| 2 |
1 |
Demon
Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba The Movie: Mugen Train |
Toho,
Aniplex |
16 |
| 3 |
2 |
Gintama:
The Final |
Warner |
4 |
| 4 |
3 |
Poupelle
of Chimney Town |
Toho,
Yoshimoto |
6 |
| 5 |
NEW | The Family |
Star
Sands, Kadokawa |
1 |
| 6 |
NEW | The
End of the Tiny World |
Avex
Pictures |
1 |
| 7 |
5 |
Pocket
Monsters The Movie "Koko" |
Toho |
6 |
| 8 |
7 |
The
Promised Neverland |
Toho |
7 |
| 9 |
4 |
The
Night Beyond the Tricornered Window |
Morigaki
Yukihiro |
2 |
| 10 |
6 |
Romance of the Three Kingdoms - The New Interpretation | Toho | 8 |
Source: Kogyo Tsushin (posted February 1st, 2021)
The 23rd Pocket Monsters movie fell two spots to come in at seventh place in its sixth week in theaters. Unfortunately, no new box office earnings were provided for the week.
The rest of the Top Ten was shaken up by the debut of three new films; We Had a Love Like a Bouquet of Flowers, a love story about two young people who met after missing their last train, took the Number One spot from Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba; The Family, a film about the yakuza that deals with the concept of found family, came in at Number Five; and The End of the Tiny World, about a trio of childhood friends whose lives change once they become adults, came in at Number Six.
| Week Seven (Saturday, February 6th -
Sunday, February 7th) |
Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" spent its seventh week in seventh place in the Japanese box office.
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First, a look at the Top Ten:
| Rank |
Last
Week |
Title |
Distributor |
Weeks
in Theaters |
| 1 |
1 |
We
Had a Love Like a Bouquet of Flowers |
Tokyo
Theatres, Little More |
2 |
| 2 |
2 |
Demon
Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba The Movie: Mugen Train |
Toho,
Aniplex |
17 |
| 3 |
NEW | Suicide
Forest Village |
Toei |
1 |
| 4 |
4 |
Poupelle
of Chimney Town |
Toho,
Yoshimoto |
7 |
| 5 |
3 |
Gintama:
The Final |
Warner |
5 |
| 6 |
5 |
The Family |
Star
Sands, Kadokawa |
2 |
| 7 |
7 |
Pocket
Monsters The Movie "Koko" |
Toho |
7 |
| 8 |
NEW | Endless
SHOCK |
Toho
Visual Entertainment |
1 |
| 9 |
8 |
The
Promised Neverland |
Toho |
8 |
| 10 |
NEW | The
Melancholy Cinderella |
The
Klockworx |
1 |
Source: Kogyo Tsushin (posted February 8th, 2021)
Director Tetsuo Yajima's second Pocket Monsters film kept its seventh place ranking for the second week in a row. No new box office information has been provided for the week.
The rest of the Top Ten includes the debut of Suicide Forest Village, a horror film by director Takashi Shimizu ("The Grudge"); Endless SHOCK, the film version of the famous Japanese stage musical; and The Melancholy Cinderella, a film touted as being a suspenseful never-before-seen look related to the famous fairy tale.
| Week Eight (Saturday, February 13th -
Sunday, February 14th) |
The Valentine's Day weekend saw Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" fall from seventh to ninth place in the Japanese box office.
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First, a look at the Top Ten:
| Rank |
Last
Week |
Title |
Distributor |
Weeks
in Theaters |
| 1 |
1 |
We
Had a Love Like a Bouquet of Flowers |
Tokyo
Theatres, Little More |
3 |
| 2 |
NEW | Detective
Conan: The Scarlet Alibi |
Toho |
1 |
| 3 |
2 |
Demon
Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba The Movie: Mugen Train |
Toho,
Aniplex |
18 |
| 4 |
NEW | First
Love |
Kadokawa |
1 |
| 5 |
3 |
Suicide
Forest Village |
Toei |
2 |
| 6 |
NEW | Under the Open
Sky |
Warner |
1 |
| 7 |
5 |
Gintama:
The Final |
Warner |
6 |
| 8 |
4 |
Poupelle
of Chimney Town |
Toho,
Yoshimoto |
8 |
| 9 |
7 |
Pocket
Monsters The Movie "Koko" |
Toho |
8 |
| 10 |
6 |
The Family |
Star
Sands, Kadokawa |
3 |
Source: Kogyo Tsushin (posted February 15th, 2021)
The entertainment website Kogyo Tsushin is reporting that, to-date, Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" has been seen by 1,360,000 people and has passed the 1.5 billion yen mark. For comparison's sake, 2019's Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution managed to earn 1.7 billion yen in only three weeks, and 2018's Pocket Monsters The Movie "Everyone's Story" earned 1.6 billion yen in, again, only three weeks. Movie 23 taking almost three times as long to reach that same milestone is...not great.
This week the 23rd Pocket Monsters film was joined in the Top Ten by Detective Conan: The Scarlet Alibi, a compilation film being released to prepare audiences for the franchise's 24th film; First Love, aa suspense mystery about a university student accused of killing her own father; and Under the Open Sky, a sorta-kinda biopic about a real life serial killer. Conspicuously absent from the Top Ten this week is Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal The Movie (Part Two), which hit Japanese theaters on Thursday the 11th.
| Week Nine (Saturday, February 20th -
Sunday, February 21st) |
It took nine weeks but it's finally happened; Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" has fallen out of the Japanese box office's Top Ten.
Based on information posted by Kogyo Tsushin it seems that the debuts of romantic comedy Liar x Liar and the latest super sentai film Mashin Sentai Kiramager The Movie "Bebop Dream" pushed last week's Number 9 and Number 10 movies -- Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" and The Family -- out of the Top Ten.
| Week Ten (Saturday, February 20th -
Sunday, February 21st) |
In its tenth week in theaters, Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" rose from the dead and rejoined the Japanese Box Office Top Ten.
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A look at the Top Ten:
| Rank |
Last
Week |
Title |
Distributor |
Weeks
in Theaters |
| 1 |
1 |
We
Had a Love Like a Bouquet of Flowers |
Tokyo
Theatres, Little More |
5 |
| 2 |
3 |
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba The Movie: Mugen Train | Toho, Aniplex | 20 |
| 3 |
4 |
Detective Conan: The Scarlet Alibi | Toho | 3 |
| 4 |
2 |
Liar
x Liar |
Asmik
Ace |
2 |
| 5 |
10 |
Gintama: The Final | Warner | 8 |
| 6 |
6 |
Suicide
Forest Village |
Toei |
4 |
| 7 |
9 |
Poupelle of Chimney Town | Toho, Yoshimoto | 10 |
| 8 |
5 |
First Love | Kadokawa | 3 |
| 9 |
11 |
Pocket
Monsters The Movie "Koko" |
Toho |
10 |
| 10 |
7 |
Under the Open Sky | Warner | 3 |
Source: Kogyo Tsushin (posted March 1st, 2021)
The same website reports that the 23rd Pocket Monsters movie has been seen by 1,440,000 people and has passed the 1.6 billion yen mark.
No new movies joined the Top Ten this week; it was mostly just a reshuffling of the deck chairs. What's interesting is that Pocket Monsters isn't the only film to go up a few spots compared to last week; Gintama: The Final also jumped up from the Number 10 spot all the way up to Number 5.
| Week Eleven (Saturday, March 6th - Sunday,
March 7th) |
Is Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" getting a second wind? For the second week in a row the 23rd Pocket Monsters movie is doing better than it did the week before.
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Here's a look at the Top Ten:
| Rank |
Last
Week |
Title |
Distributor |
Weeks
in Theaters |
| 1 |
1 |
We
Had a Love Like a Bouquet of Flowers |
Tokyo
Theatres, Little More |
6 |
| 2 |
2 |
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba The Movie: Mugen Train | Toho, Aniplex | 21 |
| 3 |
NEW | The
Sun Doesn't Move ("Taiyou wa Ugokanai") |
Warner |
1 |
| 4 |
3 |
Detective Conan: The Scarlet Alibi | Toho | 4 |
| 5 |
4 |
Liar x Liar | Asmik Ace | 3 |
| 6 |
NEW | Raya
and the Last Dragon |
Disney |
1 |
| 7 |
9 |
Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" | Toho | 11 |
| 8 |
6 |
Suicide Forest Village | Toei | 5 |
| 9 |
7 |
Poupelle of Chimney Town | Toho, Yoshimoto | 11 |
| 10 |
NEW | ARIA
The CREPUSCOLO |
Shochiku
ODS Office |
1 |
Source: Kogyo Tsushin (posted March 8st, 2021)
As you can see, Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" climbed up two spots from its Number 9 ranking the previous week, which itself was two spots higher than it had placed the week before that. Unfortunately, no new box office earnings figures are being reported.
The newcomers this week are Taiyou wa Ugokanai, a thriller starring a couple of actors who both have happened to appear in a couple of Pokémon movies in the past, by the way; Disney's newest animated film Raya and the Last Dragon; and ARIA The CREPUSCOLO, a new film to celebrate the franchise's 15th anniversary.
| Week Twelve (Saturday, March 13th -
Sunday, March 14) |
In its twelfth week in theaters Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" fell out of the Top Ten for a second time.
The new films debuting during Movie 23's twelfth week in theaters are Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time, the fourth and final film in the Rebuild of Evangelion series; Brave Gunjo Senki, a film about members of various high school sports teams finding themselves traveling back in time to the Sengoku period; and Shimajiro The Movie "Shimajiro and the Flying Ship," a film version of the TV-Tokyo kids' program.
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