The Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet (Meitantei Conan: Hiiro no Dangan film has earned 6.4 billion yen (about US$58.8 million) and sold 4.57 million tickets as of Sunday.
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time (Shin Evangelion Gekijō-ban :||), the “final” Evangelion film, has sold 5.59 million tickets for a total of 8.54 billion yen (about US$76.3) as of Sunday.
Tomoka Nagaoka (Detective Conan: Fist of Blue Sapphire) directed the film, and Takeharu Sakurai (Detective Conan: Zero the Enforcer) wrote the script.
The film has surpassed the 8.25 billion yen (about US$75.8 million) earnings of 2016’s Shin Godzilla to become the highest-earning film by director Hideaki Anno in Japan.