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Makoto Shinkai's 'your name.' Opens in Malaysia at #6

Makoto Shinkai's your name. (Kimi no Na wa.) anime film debuted at #6 in the Malaysian box office. The film opened in Malaysia on December 8. The film fell off the Singaporean box office chart in its sixth week.

The Death Note Light up the NEW world film ranked #8 in the Malaysian box office in its first week.

your name. has earned 20,510,000,000 yen (about US$177.6 million) in Japan as of Monday, surpassing the 20.3 billion yen earnings of the Harry Potter and the Philospher's Stone. It is now the fourth highest-grossing film of all time in Japan, the second highest-grossing Japanese film in Japan, and the second highest-grossing anime film in Japan. The only Japanese film to gross higher is Spirited Away (30.8 billion yen).

Entertainment news website Variety reported on December 11 that your name. topped the weekend box office in China for its second weekend in a row.

Shinkai's latest film had topped the Japanese charts for nine straight weekends since it opened on August 26, and in its 10th weekend dropped to #2 to Death Note Light up the NEW world, before regaining the top spot in its 11th weekend, and it stayed at the top spot in its 12th and 13th weekends. The film dropped to #2 in its 14th weekend.