Box Office Japanese mid-July. A local news first, Chinbotsu Nihon (Japan Sinks ), directed by Shinji Higuchi (poster at right). The film is a remake of a disaster movie (a big earthquake breaks Japan, Tokyo is under the sea ...) in 1973 based on a novel by Masato Katou (which was taken even a TV series). > official website. > trailer on YouTube. News also in second place, with 2006 souls serial Pocket Monster Advanced Generation. > official website. It is also the new 5 th place: Bureibu Sutor (Brave Story), animated fantasy film directed by Koichi Chigira. The film comes after a manga series originated from a novel by Miyuki Miyabi. Wataru, the main character, is 10 years old and was alone with his mother, abandoned by her father. A near-fatal accident involving his mother. Wataru enters a haunted mansion considered ... is the entrance to a magical world called Vision (Built $ 2,100,000)> official website. > trailer. 6th place Desu known ( Death Note. Part 1), directed by Shusuke Kaneko> go to the official website. > go to the trailer (with English subtitles)> see information about the manga on the English Wikipedia. Built from the total $ 17,100,000. The latest innovation in 7 th place: RabuCon (Lovely Complex), another mining film manga (shoujo-manga, in this case). > official website. 10th place for Bart No Gakuen , directed by Masanobu Deme. > go to the official website. Built $ 6,200,000.