The final box office numbers for 2011 in Japan have been announced and
14th Pocket Monsters Victini and the Light Hero - Reshiram / Victini and the Dark Hero - Zekrom (ビクティニと白き英雄レシラム / ビクティニと黒き英雄ゼクロム) movies made a combined 4.33 Billion yen (approx 56.5 million USD) making them the 5th highest grossing movies in Japan in 2011. Considering that the final two Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows movies and Pirates of the Caribbean were the highest grossing films of the year, the Pocket Monsters movies did quite well.
Kokurikozaka kara (コクリコ坂から) by Studio Ghibli was the highest grossing anime film in Japan though as it just edging out the Pocket Monsters movies.
| 1 |
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 |
9.61 Billion Yen |
| 2 |
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides |
8.85 Billion Yen |
| 3 |
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 |
6.76 Billion Yen |
| 4 |
Kokurikozaka kara |
4.46 Billion Yen |
| 5 |
Pocket Monsters 14th Movies |
4.33 Billion Yen |
The 14th Pocket Monsters movies were also released in Japan on DVD on December 16th, 2011 and for its debut week of December 12th to December 18th, the DVD version of the movies was the
13th best selling DVD of the week overall and the
2nd best anime DVD for the same time period. The
DVD dropped to 6th place in the anime ranking for the week of December 19th to December 25th as two One Piece box sets took the top places.
Sources:
http://movie.goo.ne.jp/special/ranking2011/boxoffice.html and
http://www.oricon.co.jp/.
