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Eiga Chiikawa: Ningyo no Shima no Himitsu ( Chiikawa the Movie: The Secret of Mermaid Island), the first anime film adaptation of Nagano 's Chiikawa manga, dropped from #1 to #2 in its 10th weekend in Japan's box office from Friday to Sunday. The film sold 182,000 tickets from Friday to Sunday, and earned 280,160,700 yen (about US$1.78 million).
The film has sold a total of 11.55 million tickets, and earned a cumulative total of 16,857,364,400 yen (about US$107 million). The film is currently the biggest film in Japan this year, and now ranks 14th in Japan's all-time box office ranking.
Eiga Chiikawa: Ningyo no Shima no Himitsu opened on July 24 and ranked at #1 for its opening weekend. The film earned 990 million yen (about US$6.05 million) on its opening day. The film sold 1,508,500 tickets and earned 2,240,333,500 yen (about US$13.70 million) in its first three days. As of September 23 (the end of Japan's "Silver Week" string of holidays), the film has sold 11.33 million tickets to earn 16.5 billion yen (about US$104.3 million).