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Dogasu's Backpack | Movies & Specials Guide | 25th Anniversary Pokémon Film Festival

How did the movies that were a part of the 25th Anniversary Pokémon Film Festival do during their time in Japanese theaters? This page provides a detailed week-by-week look at how the franchise's fan favorites movies did at the Japanese box office.

Week One (Thursday, August 11th - Sunday, August 14th 2022)

The re-release of Pocket Monsters The Movie "Latias and Latios, The Guardian Deities of the Water Capital" & "The Glittering Starlit Camp" managed to debut in 7th place in its opening weekend.

One Piece Film Red
Jurassic World Domination
Minions: The Rise of Gru

Here's how the Top Ten looked over the long holiday weekend:

Rank
Last Week
Title
Distributor
Weeks in Theaters
1
1
One Piece Film Red
Toei
2
2
2
Jurassic World Domination
Toho Towa
3
3
3
Minions: The Rise of Gru
Toho Towa 5
4
4
Kingdom 2: To the Far Land
Toho / Sony
5
5
5
Top Gun: Maverick
Towa Pictures
12
6
NEW
Tang
Warner
1
7
NEW Pocket Monsters The Movie "Latias and Latios, The Guardian Deities of the Water Capital" & "The Glittering Starlit Camp"
Toho
1
8
6
Even If Love Vanishes from the World Tonight
Toho
3
9
NEW PAW Patrol: Jet to the Rescue
Aeon Entertainment
1
10
7
Ghostbook The Ghost Bestiary
Toho
4

Source:  Kogyo Tsushin (posted August 15th, 2022)

First place went to One Piece Film Red, the latest One Piece film that'll likely stay in the Number 1 spot for weeks to come. Second place went to Jurassic World Domination, which came out in Japan a few weeks after the U.S. while third place went to Minions: The Rise of Gru.

Other new films debuting this weekend included Tang, a movie about a man who finds an amnesiac robot starring a famous member of the Japanese boy band Arashi, and PAW Patrol: Jet to the Rescue, a theatrical release of the 2020 PAW Patrol TV movie.

According to this old page on the Japanese Pokepale! fansite the fifth movie debuted at Number 4 and earned 320 million yen in its first weekend back in 2002. For comparison's sake Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko," the most recent Pocket Monsters film to get a nationwide release, earned 276 million yen during its initial weekend in theaters.



Week Two (Saturday, August 20th - Sunday, August 21st 2022)


 

 

 

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