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The EelFollow

1997 • NR • 1h 57m • Comedy, Drama • New Yorker Films
🍅 83% 81% MC 81 IMDb 7.3

Box office summary

Opening weekend
$30K
Limited · 3 theaters
Domestic total
$418K
Final
Domestic legs14.0x
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Cast & crew

Directed byShōhei Imamura ScreenplayDaisuke Tengan, Motofumi Tomikawa, Shōhei Imamura Produced byHisashi Iino CinematographyShigeru Komatsubara MusicShinichiro Ikebe Prod. DesignHisao Inagaki StarringKoji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Akira Emoto, Fujio Tokita, Mitsuko Baisho, Show Aikawa StudioNew Yorker Films

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal
1 Aug 21-23 59 $29.9K — 3 $9,960 $29.9K
11 Oct 30-Nov 1 71 $8.1K — 4 $2,023 $300.3K
12 Nov 6-8 65 $12.1K +49.5% 4 $3,024 $316.5K
13 Nov 13-15 57 $21.0K +73.4% 6 $3,495 $344.1K
15 Nov 27-29 79 $2.9K — 2 $1,439 $359.6K
17 Dec 11-13 78 $2.8K — 2 $1,389 $369.7K
19 Dec 25-27 74 $908 — 1 $908 $379.1K
20 Jan 1-3 79 $1.2K +35.4% 2 $615 $383.0K
24 Jan 29-31 72 $458 — 1 $458 $386.8K
26 Feb 12-14 69 $3.2K — 2 $1,608 $392.0K
27 Feb 19-21 72 $1.1K −66.2% 2 $544 $393.8K
28 Feb 26-28 77 $499 −54.1% 2 $250 $394.6K
31 Mar 19-21 81 $569 — 2 $285 $398.8K
33 Apr 2-4 85 $1.6K — 2 $814 $400.9K
37 Apr 30-May 2 103 $1.3K — 3 $446 $407.4K
68 Dec 3-5 101 $438 — 1 $438 $418.2K

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