The film placed #3 on Japan’s weekend box office ranking in terms of tickets sold, but the new Ghostbusters film, which opened in Japan on Friday, outranked Aozora Yell in box office takings for the weekend even though it ranked #4 on tickets sold.
Aozora Yell’s first weekend box office takings were a 142.8% increase on the box office takings of the live-action My Love Story!!
The live-action film of Kazune Kawahara’s Aozora Yell (Yell for the Blue Sky) manga opened in on 281 screens in Japan on Saturday and sold 160,000 tickets to earn 197,000,000 yen (US$1.96 million).
In addition, Kizumonogatari II: Nekketsu-hen, the second of three films based on NisOisin’s Kizumonogatari novel, opened on 117 screens in Japan on Friday and ranked #8 in the box office.