One Piece Red is the highest-grossing film to be screened in Japan throughout 2022
One Piece Red Movie (photo/toei animation)
The film, which has been released on August 6, 2022, has reportedly surpassed Top Gun: Maverick.
Based on a Cinema Today report, Monday, September 5, 2022, One Piece Red has earned a revenue of 12.953 billion yen or about 92.17 million US dollars. The film has so far sold at least 9,298,000 tickets.
Last weekend, on September 3-4, 2022, One Piece Red was ranked first at the Japanese box office. In those two days, One Piece Red sold 498,000 tickets with a revenue of 697 million yen or about 4.96 million US dollars.
In fact, in the first week when it was released, One Piece Red also ranked first at the Japanese box office. At least 1.58 million tickets were sold in the first two days with an income of 2.254 billion yen or 16.7 million US dollars.
The film earned 78 percent more in the first two days compared to the previous One Piece film, One Piece: Stampede.
With this achievement, One Piece Red is listed as the 21st highest-grossing film of all time in Japan. In addition, this film is also listed as the ninth highest-grossing anime film of all time in Japan.
The story in the One Piece Red film centers on a new character named Uta. Uta is the son of the captain of the Red Hair Pirates, Shanks, who is also the character that inspired Luffy to become a pirate.
Kaori Nazuka voiced Uta's character while speaking. However, when singing, Uta's character will be filled by Ado. Ado also sang the One Piece Red soundtrack entitled 'Shinjidai' or 'New Genesis'.
Meanwhile, One Piece Red is directed by Goro Taniguchi, who also directed several other anime such as Code Geass and One Piece: Defeat The Pirate Ganzack!
Tsutomu Kuroiwa is writing the script for the film. Not only that, the creator of the One Piece manga, Eiichiro Oda is also directly involved in the making of One Piece Red and acts as a producer.