Kokuriko-Zaka Kara Top Japanese Film of 2011

Director Goro Miyazaki’s second film, Studio Ghibli’s Kokuriko-Zaka Kara (From Up On Poppy Hill) was Japan’s highest grossing domestic film of 2011, bringing in 4.46 billion yen ($57.6 million USD). The film came in fourth in Japanese 2011 box office receipts behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part Two, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. Goro Miyazaki’s first film, 2006’s Ged Senki, was also the top grossing Japanese film of its release year.

Seven out of 2011’s top ten grossing Japanese films were anime or manga related:

1. Kokuriko-Zaka Kara
3. Pokemon movie 14
5. Gantz
6. Kaibutsu-kun
7. Detective Conan: Quarter of Silence
8. Gantz 2: Perfect Answer
10. Doraemon: New Nobita and the Iron Men Platoon

Source: Tokyograph