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Live-Action Kaiji Final Game Opens in Malaysia on March 19

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Film opened at # 2 in Japan on January 10

Live-Action Kaiji Final Game


Malaysian film distributor GSC Movies announced Tuesday that Kaiji Final Game, the new live-action film inspired by Nobuyuki Fukumoto's Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji manga, will open in Malaysia on March 19. Encore Films is streaming the film's English and Chinese-subtitled trailer.


The film opened on January 10. The film ranked #2 in Japan's opening weekend, earning a cumulative total of 1,935,549,950 yen (about US$ 17.62 million). The film sold 248,000 tickets and earned 362 million yen (around US$ 3.29 million) on January 11-12, selling 437,000 tickets, earning 616 million yen (around US$ 5.60 million) from January 10-13 (January 13 was a national holiday). The film's opening weekend earnings are 3.5 percent higher than previous 2011 movie Kaiji 2-Jinsei Dakkai Game's opening weekend earnings. While the film sold less tickets than Frozen II (Japan's eighth weekend), it earned more yen over the weekend than Frozen 2.


The film is billed as the series ' "last chapter," Fukumoto's entirely original story.

Tōya Satō returned to direct the new film for the previous two films, and Tatsuya Fujiwara also returned as the titular character.
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