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Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Art World Tales, the 44th theatrical film from the Doraemon anime franchise, opened in 383 theaters in Japan on March 7 and made a first-place debut in its first weekend, according to Kogyo Tsushinsha.

The film beat the award-winning American musical fantasy film Wicked, which ranked second in its opening weekend in Japan with 519 million yen (3.54 million USD).

The Doraemon franchise's 45th-anniversary film earned 703 million yen (4.78 million USD) on 571,000 admissions between Friday and Sunday, which was 107 percent of that of the previous 43rd film, Doraemon: Nobita's Earth Symphony, released in March 2024. Meanwhile, the film ranked third in Filmarks' first-day satisfaction ranking with an average rating of 4.16/5.0 based on 931 reviews.

The TRILLION GAME live-action feature film based on the manga series written by Riichiro Inagaki and illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami went to fifth in its fourth weekend, down two spots from last weekend.

The film's official website confirmed that the sequel to the 2023 TV drama now has an accumulative of 1.62 billion yen (11.01 million USD) earned from 1.18 million ticket sales in 24 days since debuting in Japanese theaters on February 14.

The live-action film adaptation of Kengo Hanazawa's action manga series UNDER NINJA dropped two spots to seventh place in its seventh weekend. The film has earned 1.2 billion yen (8.18 million USD) on 900,000 admissions in 45 days since its release on March 9, according to the movie's official X (formerly Twitter).

A live-action film adaptation of Karin Anzai's romantic comedy manga It Takes More Than a Pretty Face to Fall in Love (known as Kao Dake ja Suki ni Narimasen in Japan) opened in 253 theaters on March 7 and ranked eighth in its opening weekend. The film also ranked seventh in Filmarks' first-day satisfaction ranking with an average rating of 3.73/5.0 based on 103 reviews.

In its third weekend, HYPNOSISMIC -Division Rap Battle-, the first feature film from the rap battle-themed HYPNOSISMIC project, reappeared in eighth place after staying outside the Top 10 last weekend.

While finally disappearing from the Top 10 in its seventh weekend, advance theatrical screenings of Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-, the re-edited episode version of the upcoming Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX TV series, built up a 52-day cumulative of 3,050,997,300 yen (20.79 million USD) with 1,854,932 admissions, according to the anime's official website. It continues to be the highest-grossing film released theatrically in Japan in 2025.

In Kogyo Tsushinsha's mini-theater ranking, the 4K revival screening of Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence stayed in second place for two consecutive weekends, while the 1995 film Ghost in the Shell went down two spots to third in its second weekend.

Both films are showing in 30 theaters in Japan for a limited two weeks from February 28.