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Sky Crawlers opens to #7 in the box office

bye.jpgOshii Mamoru’s The Sky Crawlers has been in cinemas since the 2nd of August, and Yahoo news reports that it has ranked 7th in the box office. During the premiere of Sky Crawlers, Oshii said that he’ll quit directing if it isn’t a hit, and that fans should support the movie if they don’t want that to happen.

Miyazaki Hayao’s Gake no ue no ponyo has been #1 for 3 weeks in a row and the new Pokemon movie is #2, also for 3 weeks in a row. Ranked #3 is the new Naruto movie which opened on the same day as Sky Crawlers, and Kung Fu Panda is in #4.

So I guess we might not see Oshii around for a while or something.

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10 Responses to “Sky Crawlers opens to #7 in the box office”

  1. serial Says:
    August 6th, 2008 at 1:27 pm

    T_T

  2. omo Says:
    August 6th, 2008 at 1:29 pm

    Note to Oshii: don’t release films in the summer?

  3. Iori Says:
    August 6th, 2008 at 6:36 pm

    and what about GitS 2.0?

  4. Jumbo Says:
    August 6th, 2008 at 8:58 pm

    I suppose I’ll be the only guy that won’t really miss him?

  5. Eli Says:
    August 6th, 2008 at 10:27 pm

    7th isn’t considered a hit? I’d say it’s pretty decent considering the number of fans for the top three.

  6. Zepy Says:
    August 7th, 2008 at 3:24 am

    >Iori
    GitS 2.0 was a limited release movie and there were only like 5 cinemas across the whole of Japan that carried that movie so there isn’t much to say about it I think.

    >Eli
    There aren’t many cinemas that would even carry 10 different movies at a time, so being 7th on the first week when sales should be the highest is pretty bad, yeah.

  7. Damedameda Says:
    August 7th, 2008 at 8:08 pm

    This is great news.

  8. dogtato Says:
    August 8th, 2008 at 4:01 am

    This is terrible news!

    Oh wait, I was thinking of Makoto Shinkai. I like Ghost in the Shell but he hasn’t done a whole lot else lately.

  9. JockeII Says:
    August 13th, 2008 at 6:03 am

    Good. I am tired of these overhyped persons anyway. Now we just need Makoto Shinkai and some more to quit so I don’t have to hear more about their overhyped shit.

  10. Trish Says:
    August 18th, 2008 at 7:28 pm

    Why won’t he die already? And I mean Miyazaki.

    And what the hell, Japan must be the worst place on earth to go to a cinema right now with so many fucking kids everywhere.

    @JockeII: agreed, though Oshii is at least better than Shinkai, even if he puts me to sleep 90% of the time.

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