Weekend Japan Box Office Top Ten - 2008/1/5 ~ 2008/1/6

1 I Am Legend (Warner Bros.)
2 Mari To Koinu No Monogatari (A Tale of Mari and Her Three Puppies; Toho)
3 National Treasure: Lincoln Ansatsusha No Kikki (National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets; Disney)
4 AVP2 - Alien vs. Predator (Alien vs Predator: Requiem; 20th Century Fox)
5 Louis To Mirai Dorobou (Louis & The Future Bandit/Meet The Robinsons; Disney)
6 Eiga De toujyo! Tamagochi Doki Doki! Uchu No Maigochi!? (Our Movie Debut! Exciting Tamagochi! Lost In Space!?; Toho)
7 Gekijouban Bleach The Diamond Dust Rebellion - Mohitotsu No Hiyorinmaru (Movie Ver. Bleach - The Diamond Dust Rebellion - The Other Hiyorinmaru; Toho)
8 Always Zoku: San Cho Me No Yuhi (Always - Series: Setting Sun on 3rd Avenue; Toho)
9 Tsubaki Sanjuro (Toho)
10 Moryo No Hako (Shadow Spirit; Toshiba)

After a short rest break both Eiga.com and Box Office Mojo are reporting again on the box office numbers for Japan. Will Smith's "I Am Legend" is still tops the Japanese box office for a fourth week. "Meet The Robinsons" (in Japan retitled - Louis To Mirai Dorobou/Louis and the Future Bandit) and "National Treasure: Book of Secrets" (in Japan retitled - National Treasure: Lincoln Ansatsusha No Nikki/Dairy of Lincoln's Assassin) also continue to hold strong in the number two and three spots respectively. Hashimoto Hajime's latest movie, the grand and colorful "Cha Cha Dengai No Onna" (Tea - Women on The Horizon; Toei) with Wao Youka, Tomita Yasuko and Terajima Shinobu will most surely enter the top ten next week.

Other notable movies making their road-show debut the first weeks of 2008 include, the feature length documentary movie version of the TV series "Planet Earth" (simply titled "Earth", 1/12), Tim Burton's "Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (in Japan retitled "Sweeny Todd: Fleet Gai No Akuma No Rihatsushi/Demon Barber of Fleet Street; 1/8), François Girard's erotic Japan-themed film "Silk" (1/19) and Peter Greenaway's film about Rembrandt, "Nightwatching" (in Japan retitled: Rembrandt No Yakei/Rembrandt's Night Watchman; 1/8).

Here are the box office receipts for the weekend.

Film Title---------------Earnings this week/Total thus far (USD)----Weeks in play----No. of Screens
1 I Am Legend (WB)-----------------$2,419,630/$31,113,514-----------------------4-----------385
2 Mari To Koinu...(Toho)-------------$1,983,168/$21,254,367----------------------5-----------333
3 National Treasure...(Disney)---------$1,838,962/$16,543,766--------------------3----------462
4 AVP2 (20th Century Fox)--------------$1,001,802/$6,687,764---------------------2---------391
5 Meet The Robinsons (Disney)----------$804,735/$6,401,144-----------------------3-----------338
6 Tamagocchi (Toho)--------------------$624,817/$5,964,012-----------------------4-----------283
7 Always Zoku (Toho)------------------$565,176/$38,569,799-----------------------10----------327
8 Bleach (Toho)----------------------$543,318/$5,686,668-------------------------3------------225
9 Sanjuro (Toho)---------------------$397,336/$8,684,973-------------------------6-----------325
10 Moryo No Hako (Toshiba)-----------$326,538/$2,702,855-------------------------3----------149