"Nada Soso" back at the top, and "Showa boom" continues

Over the weekend, while a lot of Tokyo movie fans moved over to TIFF,  "Nada Soso" got back to the top of box office in Japan.  Cummulative attendance surpassed 1.5 million, and is estimated to reach 5 billion yen final gross.  See here for my previous article.

Among new movies on the ranking, Tetsuo Shinohara's "Riding On The Metro" ("Metro ni notte"), starring Shinichi Tsutsumi and Aya Okamoto, made it to the third position with 107 million yen.  Tsutsumi gained popularity with "Always - Sunset on Third Street" last year, and "Metro"'s opening gross is approximately half of "Always", so Mr. Texas estimates the best "Metro" can make will be 1.5 billion, and most likely lower than that.  Here is my previous article about "Metro".  I have not seen it, but the official site's retro image is similar to "Always".  Japan's "Showa boom" continues, I guess.

Ranked No. 8 is "Angel's Egg", filmization of popular love story novel, directed by Shin Togashi and starring Hayato Ichihara, Manami Konishi and Erika Sawajiri.

As always, Ryuganji has put up the entire top 10 list here.  Arigato!

Source:  Eiga.com, Movie Consultant Blog