Makoto Shinkai 's your name. ( Kimi no Na wa. ) anime film sold 637,000 tickets on 296 screens for 860 million yen (about US$8.57 million) over the September 24-25 weekend to maintain its #1 ranking for its fifth time. In total, the film has sold 8,500,000 tickets for 11.1 billion yen (about US$111 million) as of September 25.

The film is now 2016's highest-grossing film in Japan. The film reached 10 billion yen faster than Disney's Frozen , which closed in Japan after earning 25.4 billion yen in the box office to become Japan's #3 highest-grossing film of all time after Spirited Away and Titanic . Frozen reached 10 billion yen in 37 days while your name. reached the same milestone in 28 days.

Kyoto Animation 's anime film adaptation of Yoshitoki Ōima 's A Silent Voice ( Koe no Katachi ) manga fell from #2 to #3 in its second weekend. The film opened on September 17 on 120 screens.

The third live-action Ushijima the Loan Shark film ( Yamikin Ushijima-kun Part 3 ) film opened on September 22 on 184 screens and ranked at #4 for the weekend.

The live-action film of Naoshi Arakawa 's Your Lie in April ( Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso ) manga fell from #5 to #6 in its third week. The film opened in Japan on September 10 on 294 screens. The film is projected to earn 1.5 billion yen (about US$15 million).

Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi 's Shin Godzilla film fell from #6 to #9 in its ninth week. As of September 6, the film sold more than 4.2 million tickets, the highest among all Heisei-era Godzilla films.

Sources: Eiga.com, Movie Walker via Yaraon!