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Live-Action Kaiji Final Game Film Opens in Malaysia on July 1
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Malaysian film distributor GSC Movies began streaming a trailer on Wednesday for Kaiji Final Game, the new live-action film inspired by Nobuyuki Fukumoto's Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji manga. The trailer reveals that GSC Movies will open the film in Malaysia on July 1. The film was previously slated to open in Malaysia on March 19, but it was delayed due to the spread of the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
The film opened in Japan on January 10. The film ranked at #2 in its opening weekend in Japan, and it has earned a cumulative total of 1,935,549,950 yen (about US$17.62 million). The film sold 248,000 tickets and earned 362 million yen (about US$3.29 million) on January 11-12, and sold 437,000 tickets and earned 616 million yen (about US$5.60 million) from January 10-13 (January 13 was a national holiday). The film's opening weekend earnings were 3.5% higher than the opening weekend earnings of the previous 2011 film Kaiji 2 - Jinsei Dakkai Game. While the film sold less tickets than Frozen II (on its eighth weekend in Japan), it earned more yen than Frozen 2 during the weekend.
The film is billed as the "last chapter" of the series, with a completely original story by Fukumoto.
Tōya Satō returned from the previous two films to direct the new film, and Tatsuya Fujiwara also returned to reprise his role as the titular character.
