I Want To Eat Your Pancreas Earns an Overwhelming 100 Million Yen During Opening Week!

I Want To Eat Your Pancreas just released in theaters across Japan on September 1. Earning an overwhelming 100 million yen ($960,000 USD) in box office on opening week and ranked at #10 in its opening weekend. The movie is based on Yoru Sumino’s award-winning novel by the same name. The live-action adaptation premiered in July of last year.

Here are the promotional videos for the movie:

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Here’s a synopsis of the movie:

This deeply moving first-person story is about a high school boy who finds the diary of his classmate—and discovers that she’s dying. Sakura Yamauchi has been silently suffering from a pancreatic disease in school, and now exactly one person outside her family knows. He swears to her that he won’t tell anyone what he learned, and the shared secret brings them closer together. The two have very little in common, but they find themselves drawn to each other in Sakura’s final months to live.

I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai), also known as Let Me Eat Your Pancreas, is a Japanese novel by Yoru Sumino. Initially serialized as a web novel in 2014, the book was published in print in 2015. A manga adaptation ran from 2016 to 2017. A live-action film titled Let Me Eat Your Pancreas premiered in 2017, and an anime film premiered on September 1, 2018.

Sources: I Want to Eat Your Pancreas official website