What is your favorite commercially successful Japanese movie of 2010?
2010 was quite a successful year for Japanese cinemas and distributors, as the total box office revenue of all Japanese and foreign movies opening in Japan increased by 7.1% and came out to over 2.6 billion USD.
Unfortunately, Hollywood was able to completely occupy the top 3 with “Avatar“, “Alice in Wonderland“, and “Toy Story 3“, but fans of Japanese movies don’t have to worry. Japanese movies were responsible for 53.6% of the total box office revenue, and therefore managed to exceed foreign movies for the third consecutive year.
Ticket sales is one thing, but what about the satisfaction? The mobile portal of goo/NTT DoCoMo has asked their users to give them their opinion, and they made a poll to determine which of the 10 most successful Japanese movies of 2010 were received with the most positive feedback.
Check out the results below!
What is your favorite out of the 10 most successful Japanese movies of 2010?
01 - 14,198 votes - Haven’t seen any of them.
02 - 6,771 votes - THE LAST MESSAGE: Umizaru (97 million USD)
03 - 3,947 votes - Nodame Cantabile The Movie II (45 million USD)*
04 - 3,617 votes - Bayside Shakedown 3 (88 million USD)
05 - 3,577 votes - SP: The Motion Picture (44 million USD)
06 - 3,351 votes - Kokuhaku (46 million USD)
07 - 2,737 votes - Detective Conan: The Lost Ship in the Sky (39 million USD)
08 - 2,532 votes - The Borrower Arrietty (112 million USD)
09 - 1,686 votes - SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO**
10 - 543 votes - Pokémon Diamond and Pearl: Phantom Ruler Zoroark (50 million USD)
11 - 298 votes - Doraemon: Nobita’s Great Battle of the Mermaid King (38 million USD)
* Together with the first movie, “Nodame Cantabile” films made a total of 94 million USD.
** SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO just opened in December and therefore is not even anywhere near the top 30.
*** Somehow they failed to include the “One Piece” film (58 million USD).
source: TOKYOHIVE