Studio Ghibli and
Hayao Miyazaki's
The Wind Rises (
Kaze Tachinu) anime film fell from #2 to #3 during its 10th weekend. The
film centers on Jirō Horikoshi (
played by
Evangelion director
Hideaki Anno),
the designer of Japan's famed Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter plane of
World War II. The film earned 184,880,308 yen (US$1,881,157) on 454
screens for a new total of 11,087,842,373 yen (US$112,818,796).
Warner Japan's remake of Clint Eastwood's 1992
Unforgiven film starting
Ken Watanabe (
The Last Samurai, Inception)
fell from #4 to #6 in its second weekend. The film earned 65,445,773
yen (US$665,910) on 327 screens for a new total of 435,088,246 yen
(US$4,427,022).

The
Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Boku-tachi wa Mada Shiranai. (
anohana) film fell from #5 to #7 in its fourth weekend. The film
retells the
anohana
story from the character Menma's point of view with a new epilogue. The
film earned 55,904,369 yen (US$568,826) on 64 screens for a total of
740,158,014 yen (US$7,531,107).

The live-action
Sadako 3D 2 film fell from #8 to #9 in its fourth weekend. The film ranked at #8 on
Box Office Mojo's chart and earned 33,603,599 yen (US$341,916) on 347 screens for a new total of 638,486,458 yen (US$6,496,599).
Toei Animation and
Shinji Aramaki's CG-animated
Space Pirate Captain Harlock film fell from #7 to #10 in its third weekend. The film
remakes the classic anime
Space Pirate Captain Harlock with
Toei Animation's highest production budget ever at the equivalent of more than 30 million U.S. dollars.
Shun Oguri and
Haruma Miura star as the title pirate and the new character Yama, respectively. The film ranked at #9 on Box
Office Mojo's chart and earned 31,689,779 yen (US$322,443) on 516 screens for a new total of 389,310,337 yen (US$3,961,232).
The
Takanashi Rikka • Kai ~Gekijō-ban Chūnibyō demo Koi ga Shitai!~
film fell from Kogyo Tsushinsha's top 10 chart in its second weekend,
and the film has not been listed on Box Office Mojo's chart. Similarly,
the second installment in the
Code Geass: Akito the Exiled
anime project also fell from Kogyo Tsushinsha's top 10 chart in its
second weekend, and has not been listed on Box Office Mojo's chart.
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