The film sold 324,000 tickets to earn 428 million yen (about US$3.75 million) on 458 screens in its opening weekend.
The live-action JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond wa Kudakenai Dai-Ichi-Shō (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable Chapter I) film opened at #5.
The film also had the highest opening two days of any Japanese live-action film in 2017 so far.
The anime earned 159.3% of the opening weekend total of last year’s Pokémon the Movie: Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel film, which debuted at #3 and earned a total of 2.15 billion yen (US$19.2 million).