The weekend earnings were about 40% less than the opening weekend gross of Hosoda’s previous The Boy and The Beast film, which earned 667,035,100 yen (about US$5.4 million) in its opening weekend.
The film sold 213,166 tickets and earned 260,359,400 yen (about US$2.33 million) to rank #5 in its opening weekend.
The film earned 3.1% less than the opening weekend of last year’s Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You!
The film earned 15,410,200 yen (about US$138,400) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative total of 538,652,000 yen (about US$4.84 million).