Aside from Weathering With You, Children of the Sea and Ride Your Wave screened in competition.
Makoto Shinkai’s Weathering With You (Tenki no Ko) film won the Audience Award along with Zabou Breitman and Elea Gobbe-Mevellec’s The Swallows of Kabul film at the Animation Is Film Festival in Los Angeles this past weekend.
Weathering With You opened in 359 theaters and 448 screens in Japan on July 19.
The film sold 1,159,020 tickets for 1,643,809,400 yen (about US$15.22 million) in its first three days in 358 theaters.