The film has also earned over 30 million Hong Kong dollars (US$3.9 million or 450 million yen) as of Tuesday after opening in Hong Kong on November 11.
The last time a Japanese film topped the box office in South Korea was when Studio Ghibli’s Howl’s Moving Castle film premiered in 2004. your name. opened on 555 screens in South Korea, which is a new record for a Japanese film.
Makoto Shinkai’s your name. (Kimi no Na wa.) anime film opened in South Korea on Wednesday and ranked #1 at the box office.
The film sold 130,000 tickets to earn 100 million yen (about US$859,000) on opening day.