{"id":14497,"date":"2009-01-29T13:32:33","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T17:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=14497"},"modified":"2009-01-29T13:32:33","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T17:32:33","slug":"ponyo-officially-japans-highest-grossing-film-of-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ponyo-officially-japans-highest-grossing-film-of-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Ponyo Officially Japan&#8217;s Highest Grossing Film of 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eiren.org\/boxoffice_e\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> its official tally of Japan&#8217;s box office results for 2008.  Studio Ghibli&#8217;s Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea dominated box office revenue by earning 15.50 billion yen (over US $172 million), more than double the second highest grossing film, Boys Over Flowers Final.<\/p>\n<p>The Pokemon: Giratina &amp; the Sky Warrior anime film ranked fourth. The Doraemon: Nobita &amp; the Green Giant movie was last year&#8217;s eighth highest grossing film. Including the first 20th Century Boys movie and the L: change the WorLd movie, 6 of the 10 highest grossing theatrical films in Japan last year have direct connections to manga and anime.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchfilm.net\/site\/view\/its-official-japanese-people-prefer-japanese-films\/\" target=\"_blank\">Twitch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan has announced its official tally of Japan&#8217;s box office results for 2008. Studio Ghibli&#8217;s Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea dominated box office revenue by earning 15.50 billion yen (over US $172 million), more than double the second highest grossing film, Boys Over Flowers Final. The Pokemon: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}