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Eiga Crayon Shin-chan Chō Karei! Shakunetsu no Kasukabe Dancers Film Opens in India in October 2025
posted on by Adriana Hazra
The film will be the 32nd 2D animated film in the Crayon Shin-chan series and will open in Japan on August 8. It will be the "series' first dance entertainment movie" and the series' first film set in India. Shinnosuke and the members of the Kasukabe Defense Force dance in the film.
Masakazu Hashimoto, who has previously directed many films in the franchise including the 30th film Eiga Crayon Shin-chan Mononoke Ninja Chinpūden, is directing the new film. Kimiko Ueno (Eiga Crayon Shin-chan Mononoke Ninja Chinpūden, Eiga Crayon Shin-chan Shinkon Ryokō Hurricane) is returning to the franchise to write the screenplay.
The 31st 2D animated film in the franchise, Eiga Crayon Shin-chan: Ora-tachi no Kyōryū Nikki (Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Our Dinosaur Diary), premiered in Japan on August 9. The film opened in Japan at #2. The film sold 365,000 tickets and earned 455,302,200 yen (about US$3.05 million) in its first three days, and sold 510,000 tickets and earned 636 million yen (about US$4.32 million) in its first four days including Monday (August 12 was the Mountain Day holiday in Japan). It will open in Indian theaters on May 1.
Source: Deadline (Stewart Clarke, Jesse Whittock, Max Goldbart)
