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KH91
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Makoto Shinkai domination. Well done.
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endallchaos
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I doubt it would happen, but it would be awesome if it passed Frozen.
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WANNFH
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At least it will pass Kaze Tachinu for sure, or maybe Ponyo. We're just need to believe in the power of hypnotic Shinkai clouds. 
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NegativeZero
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The USD numbers here don't look right - you're out by a factor of 10. At current exchange rate, 860 million yen is only $8.57 million. |
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Tensai GinAce
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Yamikin Ushijima kun is doing really well !!
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hope the final one does too ! |
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digidragon
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Thanks for catching this. It's fixed now. |
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Zin5ki
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Going by these figures alone, I can safely say that this film's domestic box-office revenue increased at a rate that greatly exceeded Five Yen Per Second. |
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andyos
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The source for the claim that Spirited Away outsold Frozen in Japan seems to be this Japanese-language site:
http://www.narinari.com/Nd/20151235305.html How reliable is narinari.com as a source? I'm still inclined to trust the boxoffice mojo site, which claims that Spirited Away earned $229 million in Japan, below Frozen's Japanese take of $249 million. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=spiritedaway.htm http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=frozen2013.htm |
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bin1127
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This has got to be some buzz on buzz feeding itself. I imagine this movie to be pretty good, like garden of words, but it's probably nothing earth shattering. It's nice that Makoto Shinkai is now a household name in Japan; until his next one flops lol
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Dab1za9
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boxoffice mojo always messes with the yen-dollar exchange rate so it is unreliable, it is Known that Spirited Away made 30.8 billion yen and Frozen made 25.48 billion yen http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2014/06/04/frozen-ranks-as-third-biggest-hit-in-japan/ |
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andyos
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Many thanks for your message. Actually, the WSJ gives 30.4 billion yen for Spirited Away (not 30.8 billion), but that's certainly more than Frozen's 25.48 billion yen, as given on the Motion Picture Producers of Japan site ( http://www.eiren.org/boxoffice_e/2014.html ). I presumed the dollar figures on Boxoffice Mojo were based on contemporary yen/dollar exchange rates for the relevant year, which probably changed greatly between 2001 (when Spirited Away was released) and 2014 (when Frozen opened in Japan). afaics, it's possible that Boxoffice Mojo and the Motion Picture Producers site may be both correct in their own terms, though that would leave the question 'Did Frozen earn more than Spirited Away?' annoyingly ambiguous. |
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endallchaos
Posts: 213 Location: Sin City |
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I actually think GoW is better. The animation itself is definitely better in GoW. 
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TarsTarkas
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It would seem that the Japanese movie goers disagree with you. There is a lot of advertising for this movie. Even the bookstores are promoting it. |
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Hiroki not Takuya
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As for GofW, I like your name better for it's action and intensity in Taki and Mitsuha's interaction but GofW had a more beautiful setting and more delicate romantic story so it has a different appeal. I absolutely hated 5cm/s because it had so little romantic interaction between Takaki and Akari other than the former pining away for the latter and the latter getting a life and both of them settling for "I'll always have the memory". 
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Jose Cruz
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At this rate this might become the highest grossing film of all time in Japan.
Although, corrected for inflation, that's impossible. Guess whats the highest grossing film of all time in Japan corrected for inflation? No, it's not Spirited Away. I think it's Seven Samurai back in the 50's, when ticket sales were much higher than today. Still it has a good shoot at surpassing Spirited Away. Now Makoto Shinkai is truly the new Miyazaki since his film became a mega-blockbuster hit, bigger than any Miyazaki movie before Princess Mononoke. |
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