{"id":460763,"date":"2026-06-04T14:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/460763\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T14:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:49:14","slug":"the-super-mario-galaxy-movie-stays-at-2-3rd-mononoke-film-opens-at-6-in-japan-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/460763\/","title":{"rendered":"The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Stays at #2, 3rd Mononoke Film Opens at #6 in Japan – News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"mariogalaxymovie\"Image via Nintendo of America’s website<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a9 2026 Nintendo and Universal Studios<\/p>\n

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie<\/a> \u2014 Nintendo<\/a>, Illumination<\/a>, and Universal Pictures<\/a>‘ sequel<\/a> to The Super Mario Bros. Movie<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 stayed at #2 in its sixth weekend. The film sold 151,000 tickets and earned 205,436,210 yen (about US$1.28 million) from Friday to Sunday. The film has sold a total of 5.18 million tickets and earned a cumulative total of 7,136,840,950 yen (about US$44.61 million).<\/p>\n

The film opened<\/a> at #1 at the Japanese box office. The film sold 1.121 million tickets and earned 1,601,093,600 yen (about US$9.96 million) in its first three days.<\/p>\n

The film opened<\/a> in the United States and the United Kingdom on April 1, in<\/a> other select territories on April 3, and in Japan on April 24.<\/p>\n

Illumination founder and CEO Chris Meledandri<\/a> and Nintendo representative director and fellow Shigeru Miyamoto<\/a> again produced Illumination and Universal Pictures’ new film. Directors Aaron Horvath<\/a> and Michael Jelenic<\/a> and screenwriter Matthew Fogel<\/a> returned from the previous film for the new project. Brian Tyler<\/a> returned to compose the soundtrack.<\/p>\n

\"KeyImage via Detective Conan movies’ X\/Twitter account<\/a><\/p>\n

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Detective Conan: Highway no Datenshi<\/a> (Detective Conan<\/a>: Fallen Angel of the Highway), the Detective Conan franchise<\/a>‘s 29th film<\/a>, stayed at #4 in its eighth weekend. The film sold 144,000 tickets and earned 219,896,000 yen (about US$1.37 million) from Friday to Sunday, and has sold a total of 8.65 million tickets to earn a cumulative total of 12,764,160,700 yen (about US$79.79 million).<\/p>\n

The film is now the fourth consecutive film in the franchise to earn more than 10 billion yen, beginning with 2023’s Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine<\/a> film.<\/p>\n

The film sold 2,318,009 tickets and earned 3,502,137,800 yen (about US$21.9 million) in its first three days, making<\/a> a new opening-weekend record for the franchise, and debuting at #1 at the Japanese box office.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The new film centers on the character Chihaya Hagiwara, member of the Kanagawa Prefectural Police and the leader of its motorcycle division. Miyuki Sawashiro<\/a> now voices the character, replacing the late<\/a> Atsuko Tanaka<\/a>. The movie also features Kanagawa inspector Jugo Yokomizo, teenage detective Masumi Sera, Chihaya’s late younger brother Kenji Hagiwara, and Kenji’s Police Academy classmate Jinpei Matsuda.<\/p>\n

\"mononoke-3-main-visual\"Image courtesy of Twin Engine<\/p>\n

\u00a9Twin Engine<\/p>\n

Gekij\u014dban Mononoke Dai-San-Sh\u014d: Hebigami<\/a>\u00a0(Mononoke<\/a> the Movie: Chapter 3: Snake God),\u00a0the third<\/a> installment of the Mononoke franchise’s film trilogy<\/a>, opened at #6. The film earned\u00a0117,426,720 yen (about US$734,000) in its first three days.<\/p>\n

Hiroshi Kamiya<\/a> reprises his role as the Medicine Seller, with other returning cast from the previous two films.<\/p>\n

Kenji Nakamura<\/a> returns from the second film as the general director, and Tomoaki Koshida<\/a> is directing the third film at Studio Kafka<\/a> and EOTA<\/a>.\u00a0Aina The End<\/a> performs the theme song “No Epilogue.”<\/p>\n

Mononoke The Movie: Phantom in the Rain<\/a> (Gekij\u014dban Mononoke: Karakasa), the first film, premiered in Japan in July 2024. Netflix<\/a> is streaming<\/a> the film. The film won<\/a> the Axis: Satoshi Kon<\/a> Award for Excellence in Animation for best animated feature film at 2024’s Fantasia International Film Festival<\/a> in Montreal. Aina The End performed the theme song “Love Sick.”<\/p>\n

Mononoke\u00a0the Movie Trilogy: Chapter 2: The Ashes of Rage (Gekij\u014dban Mononoke Dai-Ni-Sh\u014d: Hinezumi<\/a>) opened in Japan in March 2025. Aina The End performed the film’s theme song “Hana Mus\u014d.”<\/p>\n

\"sakamotodays-liveaction-mainvisual\"Image via Live-action Sakamoto Days film’s X\/Twitter account<\/a><\/p>\n

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The live-action film<\/a> of Yuuto Suzuki<\/a>‘s Sakamoto Days<\/a> manga dropped from #5 to #7 in its fifth weekend. The film earned 76,493,700 yen (about US$478,100) from Friday to Sunday. It has sold a cumulative total of 1.84 million tickets and has earned a cumulative total of 2,550,880,200 yen (about US$15.94 million).<\/p>\n

The film ranked at #4 in its opening weekend. The film sold 346,000 tickets and earned 478 million yen (about US$3.05 million) in its first three days. In its first eight days in the Japanese box office, which spanned the entirety of the Golden Week holidays, the film sold 1.14 million tickets and earned 1.5 billion yen (about US$9.58 million).<\/p>\n

The film opened<\/a> in Japan on April 29. The film is also screening in the panoramic ScreenX format in 27 theaters all over Japan.<\/p>\n

Viz Media<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0MANGA Plus<\/a>\u00a0are publishing the manga in English digitally.<\/p>\n

Snow Man<\/a> member Ren Meguro<\/a> stars as Tar\u014d Sakamoto, and Fumiya Takahashi<\/a> plays<\/a> Shin Asakura. Aya Ueto<\/a> plays<\/a> Tar\u014d Sakamoto’s wife Aoi Sakamoto, while Miyu Yoshimoto<\/a> plays Tar\u014d Sakamoto’s daughter Hana Sakamoto. Other cast members include May\u016b Yokota<\/a> as Lu Shaotang, Junki Tozuka<\/a> as Heisuke Mashimo, Akihisa Shiono<\/a> as Kashima, and Keisuke Watanabe<\/a> as Natsuki Seiba. Takumi Kitamura<\/a>, Y\u016bsei Yagi<\/a>, and Meru Nukumi<\/a> play<\/a> Order assassins Nagumo, Shishiba, and Osaragi, respectively.<\/p>\n

Y\u016bichi Fukuda<\/a> (live-action Gintama<\/a>, Under Ninja<\/a>) directed and wrote the script for the film. Keiya Tabuchi<\/a> (Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time<\/a>, live-action Attack on Titan<\/a>, Kamen Rider Amazons<\/a>) directed the action. CREDEUS<\/a> is producing the film with Avex Pictures<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"shojikifudosan_movie_kv1\"Image via Sh\u014djiki Fud\u014dsan live-action film’s X\/Twitter account<\/a><\/p>\n

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The live-action film<\/a> of Mitsuhiro Mizuno<\/a> and Akira \u014ctani<\/a>‘s Sh\u014djiki Fud\u014dsan<\/a> (The Honest Realtor) manga dropped from #6 to #9 in its third weekend. The film earned 56,229,960 yen (about US$351,500) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative total of 528,914,820 yen (about US$3.30 million)<\/p>\n

The film ranked at #4 in its opening weekend, and earned 179,443,360 yen (about US$1.13 million) in its first three days.<\/p>\n

The film opened<\/a> in Japan on May 15.<\/p>\n

The first season of the live-action TV series adaptation launched in 2022, with a special episode in 2023, and the second season aired in 2024.<\/p>\n

Mizuno and \u014ctani debuted the series based on a concept by Takeshi Natsuhara<\/a> in Shogakukan<\/a>‘s Big Comic<\/a> magazine in 2017. Shogakukan shipped the 24th compiled book volume on May 8.<\/p>\n

Sources: K\u014dgy\u014d Ts\u016bshin<\/a>\u00a0(link 2<\/a>),\u00a0comScore via KOFIC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image via Nintendo of America’s website \u00a9 2026 Nintendo and Universal Studios The Super Mario Galaxy Movie \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-460763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}