Top 10 bestselling Japanese movies in the first half of 2017

Numbers in brackets indicate the exact or estimated box office takings which is represented with an asterix:

1) Meitantei Conan Kara kurenai no love letter (JPY 6.87bn)

2) Eiga Doraemon Nobita no nankyoku kachikochi daibouken (JPY 4.43bn)

3) Eiga Youkai Watch Soratobu kujira to double sekai no daibouken da nyan! (JPY 3.26bn)

4) Gekijouban Sword Art Online Ordinal Scale (JPY 2.5bn ~ JPY 2.6bn)*

5) Kaizoku to yobareta otoko (JPY 2.37bn)

6) 22 Nenme no Kokuhaku - Watashi ga satsujinhan desu - (JPY 2.34bn)* as of 23 July 2017

7) Hirugao (JPY 2.23bn)* as of 23 July 2017

8) Aibou - Gekijouban IV - Shuto Crisis Hitojichi wa 50-man nin! Tokumeigakari Saigo no ketsudan / Teiichi no Kuni (JPY 1.92bn)

10) Boku wa ashita, kinou no kimi to deeto suru (JPY 1.85bn)

In terms of the overall top 10 bestselling movies ranking, only the top 2 movies in this list made it to be ranked at No.3 and No.7 respectively. This seems to show that the Japanese box office is still pretty much dominated by Hollywood films and there is a considerable gap to overcome with the No.1 film "Beauty and the Beast" chalking up takings almost double of what the Conan movie got i.e. JPY 12.5bn vs. JPY 6.87bn.

Source: Cinema Today