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“Bayside Shakedown” (Odoru Daisōsasen), the latest film in the Yuji Oda-starring franchise, subtitled “N.E.W. Run Through the Metropolis,” has held onto the #1 spot at the Japanese box office for a second straight week. Over the weekend it drew roughly 243,000 moviegoers and earned about ¥360 million, bringing its cumulative total to 1.49 million admissions and over ¥2.1 billion in box office revenue. On 5ch, opinion is split over the film’s TV-drama-like feel, with some praising it as a “return to the series’ roots” and others arguing it’s “barely worth seeing on the big screen.” The thread also debated whether the film can realistically reach ¥5 billion, how Oda’s career has evolved, and the age range of the cast.
[Box office] “Bayside Shakedown” latest film holds #1 in second week, tops ¥2.1 billion
According to box office rankings for September 25–27 released on September 28 (compiled by Kogyo Tsushinsha), the latest theatrical installment of the Yuji Oda-starring “Bayside Shakedown” series, “Bayside Shakedown N.E.W. Run Through the Metropolis” (directed by Katsuyuki Motohiro), took the top spot for a second consecutive week.
Over the three-day weekend, the film drew approximately 243,000 moviegoers and earned about ¥360 million. Cumulatively, it has now surpassed 1.49 million admissions and ¥2.1 billion in box office revenue.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Must be a Japan-only thing — people doing their "oshi" fan-worship (obsessive support for a favorite idol/character) over something this juvenile, going out of their way to watch it on the big screen and calling it good.
It's not that big a hit though.
Probably won't reach ¥5 billion — a big drop compared to previous entries.
Western movies are just boring.
Anime that hands out merch to get people to watch it over and over is the worst.
Wish they'd made it.
Phew~ gotta hold it in, hold it in!
If you want to stay a leading man for life, your 50s are the toughest stretch.
Leaning on past hits to get through it is the right call.
He's already taking supporting roles too — playing a detective like Wakui-san (the veteran mentor detective from the original series).
Isn't it because he knows things are different from when he was headlining in his 20s?
He's smart about it, all things considered.
Didn't Yuji Oda kind of disappear for a while?
I remember him suddenly popping back up playing the "quirky cram-school teacher" role in some one-off drama.
Plenty of complaints, but it's way better than the third film or the Muroi spin-off movie (a lesser-loved entry in the franchise).
If that's the general take, then this movie turned out pretty much exactly how I expected.
Fuji TV doesn't have the money it used to, so with a limited budget it's bound to end up less flashy and simpler. Basically, it probably ends up simple like the original TV series, before the franchise got bloated with all the extra stuff.
Really?
Can I believe that?
Feel bad for whoever randomly gets stuck with the Jiro Sato one.
#2 Chiikawa
#3 Precure
This country's done for — ruled by cats.
Chiikawa's a mouse, not a cat.
If you're a fan of the show, it's like "yeah, this is it" and you can enjoy it.
Feels like one of those year-end TV specials.
Hearing that just convinced me to go see it — I just finished watching the late-night rerun of the original TV series anyway.
I'm in the camp that thinks the original TV series was the best part of Bayside Shakedown, so if it's got that vibe, maybe I'll go see the movie after all.
That just makes it a masterpiece, doesn't it?
Just checked — it's at ¥16.8 billion right now.
Same with "Kokuho" — it's pretty sad that you can't even talk about the rankings without specifically carving out a "live-action" category.
A "live-action only" ranking… don't they have any pride?
Seriously, the only things young people watch these days are Chiikawa and Precure.
Most Japanese people don't even know what "The Odyssey" is in the first place.
Most Japanese films don't even hit ¥1 billion.
Exactly, ¥2 billion in 9 days is a huge success.
Movies with titles like "5-byō de ~~" or "Wara ni mo Sugaru ~~" (those typically long, whimsical Japanese movie titles) only pulled in a few tens of millions of yen in their first three days.
That's the norm these days.
Now there's a real chance it won't reach ¥5 billion.
People who already saw "FINAL" in theaters are probably thinking "yeah, I'm good" on this one.
Bayside Shakedown was originally the show that kind of started the (arguably bad) trend of turning glorified TV specials into movies, and this feels like a return to that.
It's got that TV-series feel — not one huge case, but small incidents that tie together in the end.
So it's getting slammed hard by the crowd who feels that's disrespecting what a "movie" should be.
That's why this one's getting so much negative feedback.
Ah, that makes total sense, thanks.
So that's the reason behind the bad reviews.
By simplifying it, they got back the fun of the early days — but that same simplicity is what's making people go "this isn't a movie, don't disrespect us!"
Seems like they cast a Johnny's talent (Japan's dominant boy-band/idol agency) in his 40s, but come on, a cop drama needs some 20-somethings in it.
Isn't Jin Shirasu cast for the young female audience? He's in his 30s though.
The actor playing Mashita's son is cast twenty years older than the character's supposed age — total mismatch.
I bet they originally planned to bring in a younger idol, but that fell through because of that whole scandal.
You might be able to skip this one…
I had high hopes, but it didn't deliver.
If you're not attached to the original and just like B-movie occult horror, go for it lol.
Background and Talking Points
“Bayside Shakedown” is a franchise that dates back to its 1997 TV drama debut and has racked up hit after hit at the box office in its film incarnations; this latest release marks the series’ first new film in several years. In recent years, anime titles have dominated the top of Japan’s box office charts, and as reflected in the thread’s talk of a “live-action only” ranking, live-action films are increasingly discussed in a separate bracket of their own. The ¥2.1 billion figure cited here is only a preliminary tally as of September 28, and the final box office total will depend on how admissions hold up going forward. Opinion in the thread is split between those who see the film’s close resemblance to the TV series as a positive “return to form” and those who feel it doesn’t have the scale to justify a theatrical release — a divide that has less to do with the film’s actual quality than with how much scale viewers expected from a theatrical entry in the first place.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “[Movie] “Bayside Shakedown” latest film holds #1 in week 2, tops ¥2.1 billion — over 1.49 million admissions! Star Yuji Oda declares the series will continue.”
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