Within ten days of the official debut of One Piece Film: Red, the latest One Piece movie has already broken previous box office records. Over five hundred thousand people attended the movie, and it has made 7.06 billion JPY. That is over $53 million. This means that, just over a week after its initial release, One Piece Film: Red is the most successful One Piece movie in the franchise.
So far, the movie is available in Japan and France. Taiwan theaters will air it from August 19, while China will premiere it on August 21, 2022. As for territories such as North America, Australia, and New Zealand, Crunchyroll will distribute it in Fall 2022. It will also premiere in Fall 2022 for the UK and Ireland.
Check out the latest trailer for the film below.
The plot of One Piece Film: Red focuses a lot on music. The characters are attending Uta’s music festival, and quite a bit of the promotional material prior to the movie’s debut featured music videos of songs that are in the film. Though Kaori Nazuka (Soul Eater, Code Geass) voices Uta in the plot, singer Ado provides her singing voice. On August 16, 2022, Spotify Japan also announced that Ado’s album for One Piece Film: Red was number five on the service’s global debut albums.
One Piece Film: Red is available in theaters in Japan.
Published: Aug 16, 2022 12:00 pm