List of 2015 box office number-one films in Japan

This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekend box office in Japan for the year 2015. It lists the films with the highest box office gross and when the film with the highest gross is not also the film with the highest attendance, both are listed.

#	Date	Film	Gross	Notes
1	January 4, 2015	Big Hero 6	US$5.6 million	[1]
2	January 11, 2015		US$4.6 million	[2]
3	January 18, 2015		US$3.57 million	[3]
4	January 25, 2015			[4]
5	February 1, 2015		US$2.6 million	[5]
6	February 8, 2015	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	US$2.18 million	In gross[6]
		Big Hero 6	US$1.90 million	In attendance[6]
7	February 15, 2015	Terrace House: Closing Door	US$2.12 million	[7]
8	February 22, 2015	American Sniper	US$2.8 million	[8]
9	March 1, 2015		US$2.43 million	[9]
10	March 8, 2015	Doraemon: Nobita's Space Heroes	US$5.3 million	[10]
11	March 15, 2015		US$3.9 million	[11]
12	March 22, 2015	Assassination Classroom	US$3.42 million	[12]
13	March 29, 2015	Doraemon: Nobita's Space Heroes	US$2.58 million	[13]
14	April 5, 2015		US$2.12 million	[14]
15	April 12, 2015	Solomon's Perjury Part 2: Judgement	US$1.36 million	[15]
16	April 19, 2015	Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'	US$8.03 million	[16]
17	April 26, 2015	Cinderella	US$4.7 million	[17]
18	May 3, 2015		US$4.27 million	[18]
19	May 10, 2015			[19]
20	May 17, 2015		US$2.63 million	[20]
21	May 24, 2015		US$2 million	[21]
22	May 31, 2015	Shinjuku Swan	US$2 million	[22]
23	June 7, 2015	Tomorrowland	US$2.11 million	[23]
24	June 14, 2015	Love Live! The School Idol Movie	US$3.42 million	[24]
25	June 21, 2015	Mad Max: Fury Road	US$2.13 million	In gross[25]
		Love Live! The School Idol Movie	US$2.10 million	In attendance[26]
26	June 28, 2015		US$2.18 million	[27][28]
27	July 5, 2015	Avengers: Age of Ultron	US$6.5 million	[29]
28	July 12, 2015	The Boy and the Beast	US$5.4 million	[30]
29	July 19, 2015	Hero 2	US$5.9 million	[31][32]
30	July 26, 2015		US$2.97 million	[33]
31	August 2, 2015	Attack on Titan	US$5.1 million	[34]
32	August 9, 2015	Jurassic World	US$6.77 million	[35]
33	August 16, 2015		US$7.57 million	[36]
34	August 23, 2015		US$4.98 million	[37]
35	August 30, 2015		US$3.93 million	In gross [38]
		Ted 2	US$3.68 million	In attendance [38]
36	September 6, 2015		US$2.56 million	In gross [39]
		Unfair: The End	US$2.46 million	In attendance [39]
37	September 13, 2015	Pixels	US$1.8 million	[40]
38	September 20, 2015	Attack on Titan: End of the World	US$2.7 million	[41]
39	September 27, 2015	No Longer Heroine	US$1.95 million	[41]
40	October 4, 2015	Bakuman	US$2.1 million	[42]
41	October 11, 2015	Library Wars: The Last Mission	US$2.75 million	[43]
42	October 18, 2015		US$1.45 million	[44]
43	October 25, 2015	Galaxy Turnpike	US$2.25 million	[45]
44	November 1, 2015		US$1.5 million	[46]
45	November 8, 2015	Mozu	US$1.86 million	[47]
46	November 15, 2015		US$1.28 million	[48]
47	November 22, 2015	Girls und Panzer der Film	US$1.05 million	In gross [49]
		Raintree	US$1.0 million	In attendance [49]
48	November 29, 2015	The Little Prince	US$0.634 million	[50]
49	December 6, 2015	Spectre	US$2.9 million	[51]
50	December 13, 2015	Orange	US$2.58 million	[52]
51	December 20, 2015	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	US$10.3 million	In gross [53]
		Yo-Kai Watch: Enma Daiō to Itsutsu no Monogatari da Nyan!	US$8.71 million	In attendance [53]
52	December 27, 2015	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	US$5.8 million	In gross [54]
		Yo-Kai Watch: Enma Daiō to Itsutsu no Monogatari da Nyan!	US$4.1 million	In attendance [54]

References

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See also

• List of Japanese films of 2015