Box Office Charts 11/4 – 11/5: Thor: Ragnarok #1, IT #2, Last Recipe #3, Hyouka #12

Several new movies made its premiere on November 3, Friday, a holiday in Japan.

At no. 1 is Thor: Ragnarok with opening weekend numbers of 148,890 viewers and ¥230,616,800 revenue. This is 23.3% higher than the previous movie “Thor: The Dark World” (2014). Including Friday, the film earned a total of ¥397,972,300.

Horror film IT is at no.2 with 138,110 viewers (¥184,492,900). The movie is seen by teens, couples and in groups. Although there is a difference in the number of allocated screens, the number of viewers per screen exceeds “Thor: Ragnarok”. Its 3 day total revenue is ¥283,750,200.

Last Recipe: Kirin no Shita no Kioku opened at no. 3. Arashi’s Ninomiya Kazunari and Director Takita Yojiro (Departures) collaborates for the first time in the movie. The film attracted 107,000 viewers (¥137,568,800) on opening weekend, 43.5% lower than Ninomiya’s previous film “Haha to Kuraseba”. It had a huge opening day on Friday, November 3 and ranked first, which brings its 3 day total to ¥292,549,100.

For other new releases, Hyouka live action film starring Yamazaki Kento and Hirose Alice ranked out of top 10. The film opened on 225 screens with a 3 day total of 39,084 viewers and ¥52,085,800 revenue.

Box Office Ranking Nov 4 – 5

Rank	Last Wk	Movie	No. of screens	Wks
	New	Thor: Ragnarok	353	1
	New	IT	202	1
	New	Last Recipe: Kirin no Shita no Kioku	312	1
4	1	Kirakira☆Precure A La Mode Movie: Paritto! Omoide no Mille-Feuille!	216	2
5	3	Mix	275	3
6	2	Blade Runner 2049	335	2
7	4	Saiki Kusuo no Sainan	275	3
8	5	Sensei! …Suki ni Natte mo Ii desu ka?	336	2
9	7	Fate/stay night: Heaven’s Feel Ch.1 – Presage Flower	128	4
10	6	American Made	291	3