With a 14% increase from the previous week, the film also jumped up to sixth from the previous 10th in the weekend box office ranking.
According to the latest box office report released by Kogyo Tsushinsha, the anime film adaptation of Fumiyo Kouno’s award-winning manga Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni/In This Corner of the World earned 64,949,000 yen on 44,000 admissions in its third weekend, bringing the film’s total domestic gross to an estimated 300 million yen.
The Sunao Katabuchi (Black Lagoon, Mai Mai Miracle)-directed 126-minute anime film opened on 63 screens on November 12, which was a very limited release (Shinkai Makoto’s Kimi no Na wa./your name. had 296 screens in its opening week).