The book had sold 42,000 to rank #2 on the chart in the previous week.
The film itself has earned 1,277,960,000 yen (about US$12.51 million) in three days since opening last Friday.
It ranked #1 on the August 27-28 weekend by selling 688,000 tickets for 930 million yen (US$9.1 million).
The film opened in Japan on 301 screens, and TOHO predicts that it will gross a total of 6 billion yen (US$58.8 million).
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