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22nd Detective Conan Film Drops to #3 After 7 Weeks at #1

Meitantei Conan: Zero no Shikkōnin (consecutive weekends at #1. Deadpool 2 and 50-kai Me no First Kiss (a remake of Adam Sandler's 50 First Dates film) opened at #1 and #2 on the same weekend. The Detective Cona earned 120,401,200 yen ($1.09 million) from Friday to Sunday. The film has now earned 7,861,446,600 yen ($71.5 million).

Detective Conan: Zero the Enforcer had sold 1,289,000 tickets in its first three days to earn 1.67 billion yen ($15.6 million). The film's opening Saturday and Sunday sales represented 100.7% of the total that last year's TOHO aiming for the film to earn more than 8 billion yen ($71.9 million).

Detective Conan: The Darkest Nightmare, and centers on Tōru "Zero" Amuro. Police chief Hyōe Kuroda, who is rumored to be Rum in the Black Organization, appears for the first time in a film for the franchise.

The live-action sold 860,000 tickets and earned 120 million yen ($1.09 million) to rank #4 in its opening weekend.

The film stars Yō Ōizumi as Masami Kondo. The manga centers on 17-year-old high school student Akira Tachibana, a girl who barely expresses herself. She harbors a secret crush on Masami Kondō, the 45-year-old manager of the family restaurant she works at part-time. The manga also inspired a television anime this past winter.

The Code Geass - Hangyaku no Lelouch - Ōdō (lit.: The Imperial Path, official English subtitle: Glorification) recap film dropped off the top 10 this week.

Peacemaker Kurogane: Belief (opened on June 2.

Sayaka Koiso is deg the characters and serving as chief animation director.

open on November 17.

Sources: Eiga.com, Kōgyō Tsūshin (link 2), comScore via KOFIC