Higashi no Eden's movie version Part 1, The King of Eden started screening on 28 November 2009 and has broken the JPY 100m mark in box office takings within 38 days. The movie is screening in 10 cinema complexes nationwide and has attracted 75,647 movie-goers as of 4 January 2010. Despite opening in just 7 cinemas initially, this was an extremely good result given the scale of the screening.
The movie will be shown in other cities such as Niigata from 16 January, Yamagata from 23 January, Ibaraki, Mito, Kyoto, Fukuoka and Ogura from 30 January. Nagasaki will start screening the movie from 13 Feburary while Hiroshima will start in spring. As such, box office takings look set to rise further.
Part 2 of the movie "Paradise Lost" will be shown in March.
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