Kyoto Animation's A Silent Voice Surpasses K-ON! Film দ্বারা Earning 1.91 Billion Yen 

Kyoto Animation\'s A Silent Voice Surpasses K-ON! Film by Earning 1.91 Billion Yen

Sells 1.46 million tickets so far; 35mm film strips will be given out starting November 5

) manga has sold 1,464,305 tickets for 1,913,451,500 yen (about US$18.32 million) as of October 23. The film ranked #8 in the Japanese box office in its sixth weekend. The film has surpassed the earnings of the

, which earned 1.9 billion yen (about US$23.7 million at the time) at the box office in 2011.

Starting November 5, participating theaters will give out 35-millimeter four-frame film strips — similar to the strips given out in the film\'s third week — while supplies last.

The film opened on September 17 on 120 screens and ranked #2 at box offices in Japan. The film earned 283,000,000 yen (about US$2.8 million) and sold 200,000 tickets in its first two days. By comparison,

film earned 316,310,000 yen in its first two days on 137 screens.

\'s two anime seasons and anime film) directed the film at

performed the film\'s theme song "Ai wo Shita no wa" (Loving Is).

I wish we had never met. I wish we could meet once again.

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