Due to Jason Statham’s giant shark flick The Meg that earned an impressive 289 million yen in its opening weekend in Japan (twice more than that of Dwayne Johnson’s Rampage in May) , Gintama 2: Okite wa Yaburu tame ni koso Aru (The Rule is surely there to be broken), dropped one position to number three in its fourth weekend of release with 185 million yen on 136,000 admissions.
The live-action sequel already earned a massive 2.5 billion yen in 19 days since its release on August 17, which was two days faster than the first film.
Now its current total gross is expected have reached around 2.7 billion yen.