The film earned 1,277,960,000 yen (about US$12.51 million) in its first three days, and ranked #1 during the August 27-28 weekend.
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).
Mitsuha is a female high school student who lives in a rural town nestled deep in the mountains.
She laments that she lives in a confined rural town, and yearns for the wonderful lifestyle of living in Tokyo.
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