In its third weekend, Doraemon the Movie: Nobita’s Art World Tales, the 44th theatrical film from the Doraemon anime franchise, earned 347 million yen (2.3 million USD) on 282,000 admissions, according to Kogyo Tsushinsha. While it was a 41 percent drop from the previous weekend, the film has kept first-place in Japan’s box office ranking for three consecutive weekends since debuting on March 7.
The film’s three-week gross of 2.1 billion yen (13.93 million USD) earned from 1.77 million tickets sales is 123.5 percent of that of the franchise’s previous 43rd film, Nobita’s Earth Symphony, in March 2024, and 91.3 percent of the franchise’s top-grossing non-3DCG anime film, Nobita’s Treasure Island, in March 2018.
After making a third-place debut, the live-action film adaptation of Hatsuharu’s romantic comedy manga series A Girl & Her Guard Dog went down five places to eighth in its second weekend.
HYPNOSISMIC -Division Rap Battle-, the first feature film from the rap battle-themed HYPNOSISMIC project, returned for the second time from outside the Top 10 and ranked tenth in its fifth weekend. Meanwhile, HYPNOSISMIC -Division Rap Battle-Rule the Stage -Grateful Cypher-【Cinema Edit】ranked fourth in Kogyo Tsushinsha’s mini-theater ranking. This was the sixth installment of the “Cinema Edit” series, which filmed the 2.5-dimensional stage play series based on the project and edited for theatrical release. The sixth edition included the “Grateful Cypher” play performed in Tokyo from October 4 to 14, 2024.
Advance theatrical screenings of Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-, the re-edited episode version of the upcoming Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX TV series, did not appear in the Top 10 again in its tenth weekend while bringing its 66-day total to 3,296,499,200 yen (21.87 million USD) on 2,000,380 admissions, according to the anime’s official website.
While finally falling outside the Top 10 for the first time in its ninth weekend, the official X (formerly Twitter) for the live-action film adaptation of Kengo Hanazawa’s action manga series UNDER NINJA confirmed on March 21 that the movie had earned 1.35 billion yen (8.95 million USD) on one million admissions in 56 days since its release on January 24.
The cumulative total gross of Gekijouban Nintama Rantaro Dokutake Ninja-tai Saikyou no Gunshi (translated to “Nintama Rantaro the Movie: The Strongest Strategist of the Dokutake Ninja Squad”) reached a milestone of the three billion yen (19.89 million USD) mark, according to the film’s official X. The latest feature film from the Nintama Rantaro anime franchise released in Japanese theaters on December 20, 2024, already becoming the top-grossing film in the 32-year-old franchise.
Weekend box office Top 10 in Japan (March 21-23, 2025)
(ticket sales basis with notes in parentheses marking previous week’s placement)
| Rank | Title | Weekends since Release |
|---|---|---|
| 1 (1) | Doraemon: Nobita’s Arts World Tales | 3 |
| 2 (2) | Wicked | 3 |
| 3 (new) | Snow White | 1 |
| 4 (new) | Shonen to Inu | 1 |
| 5 (4) | 35-nemme no Love Letter | 3 |
| 6 (5) | 1ST KISS | 7 |
| 7 (new) | Conclave | 1 |
| 8 (3) | A Girl & Her Guard Dog | 2 |
| 9 (new) | Megami Kourin Before: Koukou Debut-hen | 1 |
| 10 (-) | HYPNOSISMIC- Division Rap Battle- | 5 |
Sources: Kogyo Tsushinsha weekend ranking / mini-theater ranking, Eiga.com, Filmarks, “Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX” official website, “UNDER NINJA” live-action film official X (formerly Twitter), “Nintama Rantaro” anime film official X
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