The 2015 film Detective Conan: Gōka no Himawari (Detective Conan: Sunflowers of Inferno) held the previous record, with 4.48 billion yen (about US$41.6 million) in box-office earnings.
Southeast Asian film distributor Odex began streaming an English-subtitled trailer for the Detective Conan: The Darkest Nightmare (Detective Conan: Junkoku no Nightmare) anime film on Friday.
The film sold 933,800 tickets on 348 screens, and earned 1.209 billion yen in its opening weekend.
The film has set a new record high for the film franchise, having earned approximately 5.057 billion yen (about US$47 million) and sold 3,982,700 tickets as of May 8.