The film sold 104,000 tickets and earned 121 million yen (about US$1.11 million) over the weekend, but sold 114,280 tickets and earned 132,873,500 yen (about US$1.22 million) from Friday to Sunday of that week.
Eiga Sumikko Gurashi: Tobidasu Ehon to Himitsu no Ko, the anime film of San-X’s “Sumikko Gurashi” (Living in the Corner) characters, earned 1.3 billion yen (about US$ 12.0 million) at the box office in Japan as of January 5.
The film had sold 716,224 tickets to earn a cumulative total of 857,196,900 yen (about US$7.85 million) as of December 1.
The film had sold more than 1 million tickets as of December 29.