SPY Family Code: White, the debut feature film of the SPY family anime series that debuted at 433 theatres (including fifty IMAX cinemas) all over Japan on the 22nd of December 2023. The film’s 110-minute run time earned 1,224,208,280 dollars (8.6 million dollars) with 866,436 tickets in its initial three-day run and was the top debut at the box office on weekends, according to Kyodo Tsushinsha.
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“SPY x FAMILY CODE: White” 1st weekend box office result (via: Animate Times):
December 22 (Friday)
- Attendance: 232,926
- Box office revenue: 326,336,070 yen
December 23 (Saturday)
- Attendance: 314,303
- Box office gross: 447.422,710 yen
December 24 (Sunday)
- Attendance: 319,207
- Box office revenue: 450,449,500 dollars
3-Day Total
- Attendance: 866,436
- Box office revenue: 1,224,208,280 yen
The SPY Family Code White’s opening-day box office haul in the amount of 1.224 billion yen came in third highest of Japanese anime films that were released in 2023. It was followed by Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine (3.146 billion yen) and The Boy and the Heron (1.626 billion yen).
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Major 2023 Japanese Anime films’ opening weekend gross:
| Movie Title | Release Day | Opening Weekend Gross |
| Kimetsu no Yaiba: Demon Slayer
– To the Swordsmith Village |
Feb.2 | 1.159 billion yen |
| Doraemon: Nobita’s Sky Utopia | Mar.3 | 663 million yen |
| Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine | Apr.14 | 3.146 billion yen |
| The Boy and the Heron | Jul.14 | 1.626 billion yen |
| Shin Jigen! Crayon Shin-chan THE MOVIE
Chonoryoku Dai Kessesn: Tobetobe Temakizushi |
Jul.14 | 410 million yen |
| City Hunther The Movie: Angel Dust | Sep.8 | 325 million yen |
| Precure All Stars F | Sep.15 | 437 million yen |
| Eiga Sumikko Gurashi:
Tsugihagi Kojou no Fushigina Ko |
Nov.3 | 243 million yen |
| Kitaro Tanjou: GeGeGe no Nazo | Nov.17 | 160 million yen |
| SPY x FAMILY CODE:White | Dec.22 | 1.224 billion yen |
However, SPY x FAMILY CODE:White was ranked fifth on Filmarks’ first-day satisfaction rating with a low average score of 3.83/5.0 from 1,420 reviews.In the sixth weekend of its run, Kitaro Tanjou – GeGeGe no Nazo has moved up one place from the previous weekend to fifth position. The total gross of the film has been 1.6 billion yen (11.25 million USD) with 1.14 million tickets.
Godzilla Minus One fell three places to eighth during the eighth week of its run, bringing the amount at 4.6 billion yen (32.33 million USD) on 3 million admissions. Go Fly Me to Saitama From Lake Biwa with Love~ HTML2( Tonde Saitama Biwako yori ai wo Kometein Japan) from Japan) dropped to tenth place in the fifth weekend.
After securing second place in its debut this past weekend Studio Ponoc’s The Imaginary (known as Yaneura no Rudger (or Rudger at The Attic on the Japanese market in Japan) animation feature film was quickly removed from the top 10 list in it’s second day.
Weekend box office Top 10 in Japan (December 22-24, 2023)
(ticket sales basis with notes in parentheses marking previous week’s placement)
| Rank | Movie Title | Weekends since Release |
| 1 (new) | SPY x FAMILY CODE: White | 1 |
| 2 (1) | Wish | 2 |
| 3 (2) | Ano Hana ga Saku Okade, Mata Kimi to Deaetara. | 3 |
| 4 (3) | Wonka | 3 |
| 5 (6) | Kitaro Tanjou: GeGeGe no Nazo | 6 |
| 6 (new) | Kamen Rider THE WINTER MOVIE:
Gotchard & Geats Strongest Chemy Great Gotha Operation |
1 |
| 7 (4) | Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie | 2 |
| 8 (5) | Godzilla Minus One | 8 |
| 9 (new) | PERFECT DAYS | 1 |
| 10 (7) | Fly Me to the Saitama – From Lake Biwa with Love | 5 |
Sources: Kogyo Tsushinsha, Eiga.com, Filmarks
© Tatsuya Endo/Shueisha, SPY x FAMILY Project
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