Last
weekend, The Legend Ends, the second sequel and final film in the Rurouni Kenshin trilogy, easily
opened on top of the Japanese box office. It sold an incredible 717,958 tickets
for 919,479,200 yen, beating the record of its predecessor, Kyoto Inferno, for
Japan’s biggest domestic live-action film opening in 2014.
Kyoto
Inferno is still showing and ranked 7th in last weekend’s box office
results. So far it has made 5.03 billion yen and remains the highest grossing
Japanese live-action film in 2014. However, it is likely that the gross will eventually
be overtaken by The Legend Ends.
All
3 films in the epic trilogy will be screened at this year’s Japanese Film
Festival. If you are planning to catch these exciting films, please head
over to the JFF’s Official Facebook page right now because you can vote to
have these films screened in a back-to-back marathon or on consecutive nights. Be
sure to have your say!
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