Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine Anime Film Swims to 31st Place on All-Time JP Box Office Charts

 

While a lot of films may have lowered their anchors at a smaller port, Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine continues to swim through the Japanese box office charts, gaining yet another spot this week from Star Wars: The Force Awakens to become the 31st highest-grossing film of all time in Japan.

 

As of Sunday, May 21, Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine brought in 11.74 billion yen (US$98.21 million) on the back of 8.27 million ticket sales in Japan. The film now sits behind Alice in Wonderland in 30th place on the charts. It continues to be the 13th highest-grossing anime film in Japan behind The Wind Rises.

 

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Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine is directed by Yuzuru Tachikawa at TMS Entertainment. The film opened in Japan on April 14 and was the first film in the entire franchise to pass 10 billion yen.

 

You can catch up on the Case Closed (Detective Conan) TV anime right here on Crunchyroll, which describes the series like so:

 

The son of a world famous mystery writer, Shinichi Kudo, has achieved his own notoriety by assisting the local police as a student detective. He has always been able to solve the most difficult of criminal cases using his wits and power of reason.

 

Source: Kogyo Tsushin

 

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Daryl Harding is a Senior Japan Correspondent for Crunchyroll News. He also runs a YouTube channel about Japan stuff called TheDoctorDazza, tweets at @DoctorDazza, and posts photos of his travels on Instagram.