The film sold 248,000 tickets and earned 362 million yen (about US$3.29 million) on January 11-12, and sold 437,000 tickets and earned 616 million yen (about US$5.60 million) from January 10-13 (January 13 was a national holiday).
The film still earned 41,491,850 yen (about US$382,000) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative total of 1,636,530,850 yen (about US$15.06 million).
Kaiji Final Game, the new live-action film inspired by Nobuyuki Fukumoto’s Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji manga, dropped from #2 to #4 in its fourth weekend at the Japanese box office.
The film’s opening weekend earnings are 3.5% higher than the opening weekend earnings of the previous 2011 film Kaiji 2 – Jinsei Dakkai Game.