Confessions Places First at the Box Office Four Weeks Straight
Directed by Nakashima Tetsuya, the film Confessions stars award winning actress Matsu Takako in the role of a cool and calculating teacher who avenges the death of her daughter. With a stellar cast including Kimura Yoshino and Okada Masaki, the film has been at the top of the Japanese box office for the past four weeks, earning 2.1 billion yen in just over three weeks. Even the original novel has seen a dramatic rise in sales.
The novel has been on the Oricon Paperbacks Ranking for eleven weeks, taking the number one spot for the past six consecutive weeks. It has sold over 1.45 million copies to date. Sales for the past five weeks have been over 100,000 copies per week, breaking the record set by the novel Yougisha X no Kenshin, from the Tantei Galileo series, which was held at four consecutive weeks in 2008.
Confessions Places First at the Box Office Four Weeks Straight
Original Novel Breaks Record Selling 100,000 Copies for 5 Consecutive Weeks
Compiled from: Cinema Today
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