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NANA Blitzs Movie And Album Charts In Japan
Date: 9/23/2005
Director Kentaro Otani's long-awaited big screen adaptation of Ai Yazawa's best-selling girls' manga "NANA" has been in Japanese theaters for 2 weeks now. The film is a rock and roll story pairing Aoi Miyazaki with Mika Nakashima and features Ryuhei Matsuda. The theme single GLAMOROUS SKY continues to top the Oricon charts as the film enters it's second week running. At the box office NANA has drawn a profit of 1.5 billion Yen and 1.1 million viewers as of the 11th. One billion Yen is the measure of a hit in the Japanese movie world. Toho is aiaming for a 7.7 billion Yen target at this point. The Manga is still serialized in one of Japan's most popular weekly comic magazines: "Cookie". Comic sales of 13 published volumes have exceeded 25 million. NANA is now scheduled to open in 7 countries across Asia such as Taiwan.
Source: Anime News Service