The Yo-kai Watch film opened on Saturday) This is the third Star Wars film in a row to earn more yen than a Yo-kai Watch film opening in the same weekend, and the third to earn more money in its total run.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi topped the latest Yo-kai Watch film in both tickets sold (737,467) and total yen earned (1.1258 billion yen or US$10 million) for the weekend, even though it opened on Friday and therefore its first day did not count towards the official weekend box office totals.
Yo-kai Watch Shadowside: Oni-ō no Fukkatsu (Yo-kai Watch Shadowside: The Return of the Oni King), the fourth film in the Yo-kai Watch franchise, opened on 366 theaters on Saturday and ranked #2 at the Japanese box office for the weekend.
The film sold 355,200 tickets to earn 399 million yen (about US$3.6 million).