Comments on: It’s a world I don’t particularly understand http://www.lovehkfilm.com/blog/thegoldenrock/2007/02/28/its-a-world-i-dont-particularly-understand/ We do news right, not fast Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:54:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Jason Gray http://www.lovehkfilm.com/blog/thegoldenrock/2007/02/28/its-a-world-i-dont-particularly-understand/#comment-10 Jason Gray Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:31:00 +0000 http://www.lovehkfilm.com/blog/thegoldenrock/2007/02/28/its-a-world-i-dont-particularly-understand/#comment-10 Hi,<br/><br/>Nice blog. I've noticed you really like box office news, so let me help out a bit since I don't talk about BO over at my blog anymore.<br/><br/>As you guessed, Kôgyô Tsûshin's weekly ranking, which is in turn used by sites such as eiga.com, is based on total admissions (全国動員集計).<br/><br/>Box Office Mojo is ranked by earnings. The problem with that site is that they don't post the original yen figures. You can back calculate it using their exchange rate, but that's only good for the 1 minute on the 1 day that rate was in effect.<br/><br/>At Screen (which is subscriber only, unfortunately) we publish the original figures and $ amount.<br/><br/>Sakuran earned Y44,855,778 while Marie pulled in Y43,975,895. Sakuran's per screen average was Y879,525 from 51 screens, which is not incredible but still pretty good.<br/><br/>As for the discrepancy in earnings vs. admissions, there are lots of ticket-related reasons for that such as discounts for groups of 3 high-school students, Y1000 Ladies Day, maeuriken (advanced tickets), people going to discount ticket shops in urban centers, comp tickets related to campaigns etc. etc. <br/><br/>So, that's why <i>Sakuran</i>/<i>Marie Antoinette</i> and <i>I Just Didn't Do It</i>/<i>Battle Of Wits</i> were flipped. Hi,

Nice blog. I’ve noticed you really like box office news, so let me help out a bit since I don’t talk about BO over at my blog anymore.

As you guessed, Kôgyô Tsûshin’s weekly ranking, which is in turn used by sites such as eiga.com, is based on total admissions (全国動員集計).

Box Office Mojo is ranked by earnings. The problem with that site is that they don’t post the original yen figures. You can back calculate it using their exchange rate, but that’s only good for the 1 minute on the 1 day that rate was in effect.

At Screen (which is subscriber only, unfortunately) we publish the original figures and $ amount.

Sakuran earned Y44,855,778 while Marie pulled in Y43,975,895. Sakuran’s per screen average was Y879,525 from 51 screens, which is not incredible but still pretty good.

As for the discrepancy in earnings vs. admissions, there are lots of ticket-related reasons for that such as discounts for groups of 3 high-school students, Y1000 Ladies Day, maeuriken (advanced tickets), people going to discount ticket shops in urban centers, comp tickets related to campaigns etc. etc.

So, that’s why Sakuran/Marie Antoinette and I Just Didn’t Do It/Battle Of Wits were flipped.

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