The official website for City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes, the new anime film adaptation of Tsukasa Hojo’s City Hunter manga, revealed on Monday that the film has sold 1,058,102 tickets to earn 1,502,665,440 yen (about US$13.4 million) as of Sunday.
TM Network’s song “Get Wild,” the ending theme song for the first City Hunter television anime, was also the ending song for the film.
The film sold 180,000 tickets to earn 257 million yen (about US$2.32 million) and rank #4 in its opening weekend.
Director Kenji Kodama, who has directed most of the previous City Hunter anime, returned as the chief director.