While The Boy made 667 million yen in its first two days, MIRAI’s Friday through Sunday total was about 500 million yen.
Miike’s box office disaster JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable Chapter I just one year ago. in Japan (Miike’s Jojo live-action film made 920 million yen from its total domestic run).
It was a huge 40% drop from that of Hosoda’s previous film The Boy and the Beast in 2015.