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'Kimi no Na wa' Conquers South Korean Box Office!

Last weekend, Makoto Shinkai’s Japanese anime film Kimi no Na wa has hit #1 in the South Korean box office sold over a total of 837,556 tickets.

The movie was immediately ranked at the #1 spot during its opening day on Wednesday selling 130,000 tickets and earned around 100 million yen. The only anime film that topped the cinema box office is South Korea so far was during the screening days of Studio Ghibli’s anime film Howl’s Moving Castle which premiered in 2004. Kimi no Na wa was screen to over a 555 cinemas all throughout South Korea which is one huge record so far for a Japan-based animated film. It is now Japan’s fourth highest-grossing film of all time beating the gross sales of anime film materpiece Spirited Away by Studio Ghibli.

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