Anime Feature 'Chiikawa' Tops South Korean Box Office
Key Takeaways
- Chiikawa the Movie won the South Korean weekend box office with $3.13 million.
- It narrowly beat the local political thriller The Assassin(s) by a margin of just 215 tickets.
- The Assassin(s) has faced significant political controversy and protests regarding its historical depiction.
- Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey reached a cumulative South Korean gross of $103.1 million in its tenth weekend.
The Japanese animated fantasy 'Chiikawa the Movie: The Secret of the Mermaid Island' claimed the top spot at the South Korean box office over the weekend of October 9–11, narrowly beating the local political thriller 'The Assassin(s)'. According to KOBIS data, the Toho-distributed anime earned $3.13 million from 407,895 admissions across 1,067 screens, bringing its cumulative total to $9.9 million.
Director Hur Jin-ho’s period crime investigation 'The Assassin(s)' took second place by a margin of just 215 tickets, pulling in $3.03 million despite facing intense political controversy and protests over its depiction of the 1974 assassination attempt on President Park Chung-hee. Elsewhere on the chart, 'Tazza: The Song of Beelzebub' held third place, while Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' remained strong in fourth during its tenth weekend.
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