"Frozen" becomes one of the ten highest grossing films of all time in Japan.TOKYO – Frozen remains untouchable at the Japanese box office, surpassing $156 million (?15.9 billion) over the Golden Week holidays, and overtaking Avatar and Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo on a Cliff to enter the all-time top ten highest grossing films in the territory.
Golden Week -- a bunch of public holidays grouped together that ended Tuesday -- is usually a bumper box office period, and Walt Disney Studios Japan timed the release of the 3D Japanese-language version of Frozen to coincide with it. The soundtrack album has also been at number one in the local charts for the last two weeks, after spending two months in the top 10.
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Local time-travel comedy Thermae Romae II climbed up a spot to number two, and is heading past $24.5 million (?2.5 billion), though it looks unlikely to match the $60 million the first installment took in 2012.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 held on to the number four spot it bowed in on the previous weekend, and its 12-day $19.35 million (?19.7 billion) take has already beaten the final total of The Amazing Spider-Man in Japan. The Marvel sequel has been breaking box office records across Asia, including in China, Hong Kong and India
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In eighth place, BBC Earth's high-definition Enchanted Kingdom 3D, released locally as Nature, opened on 575 screens on May 2, and finished Golden Week with more than $3.9 million (?400 million), a strong performance for a nature documentary.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier fell to ninth place in its third week on the charts.
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