Japanese animation world! ‘Suzume’s Door Breaking’ overwhelming first place...’

The Japanese animation film ‘Suzume’s Lockdown’ maintained the top spot at the box office for 7 consecutive days.

According to the Korean Film Council's integrated computer network on the 15th, 'Suzume's Lockdown' (directed by Makoto Shinkai) maintained first place in the box office by mobilizing 61,601 viewers the previous day. The cumulative number of viewers was 1,098,262.

'Suzume's Lockdown' tells the story of Suzume, a girl who accidentally opens a door that causes disaster, and desperately tries to close it to prevent disasters occurring throughout Japan. The movie takes as its main subject the Great East Japan Earthquake, which had a magnitude of 9.0, the largest ever observed in Japan. 'Suzume's Lockdown' is a movie that attracted 10 million viewers in Japan, and is on the road to box office success, exceeding 1 million viewers in just 5 days of its release.

Second place is ‘The First Slam Dunk’ (directed by Takehiko Inoue). It is a long-term box office hit, mobilizing 10,612 audiences and recording a cumulative audience of 4,028,382. 3rd place is 'Confidential' (directed by Lee Won-tae), which was viewed by 9,912 people, and 'Demon Slayer: Gathering the Sanghyeon, and To the Potter's Village' (directed by Haruo Sotozaki) was seen by 5,687 people, ranking 4th. 5th place is ‘I’m the Hero the Final’ (3,791 people).

Choi Ji-ye, Ten Asia Reporter wisdomart@tenasia.co.kr