Godzilla Minus One Gets Black-and-White Edition on January 12

The film sold 14.7% more tickets and earned 22.8% more in its first three days than the last live-action Japanese Godzilla film, Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi’s Shin Godzilla, did in its first three days in 2016.

The film sold 648,600 tickets for 1,041,193,460 yen (about US$6.93 million) in its first three days in the Japanese box office.

TOHO revealed on Wednesday that Godzilla Minus One, Takashi Yamazaki’s new film in TOHO’s Godzilla franchise, will have a new black-and-white version titled Godzilla Minus One/Minus Color (Godzilla -1.0/C) that will open in Japan on January 12.