Japanese romance film 'Even if This Love Disappears from the World Tonight', starring Naniwa Danshi's Shunsuke Michieda, crosses 1 million viewers in South Korea

Japanese romance film 'Even if This Love Disappears from the World Tonight', starring Naniwa Danshi's Shunsuke Michieda, crosses 1 million viewers in South Korea

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Even if This Love Disappears from the World Tonight has become the first Japanese live-action movie to surpass one million viewers in South Korea in 21 years.  

Helmed by Takahiro Miki, the movie depicts a love story between two high school students, Toru Kamiya (Naniwa Danshi's Shunsuke Michieda) and Maori Hino (Riko Fukumoto). Maori suffers from a sickness that causes her to have no recollection of the previous day.

As reported by Yonhap News Agency, box office data provided by the movie's South Korean importer Media Castle showed that the picture had sold a whopping 1,000,966 tickets as of 12:03 PM on 29th January 2023, the 61st day of its release.

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This marks the first time that a Japanese live-action picture has crossed a million viewers in South Korea since Takashi Shimizu's horror film Ju-On: The Grudge did so in 2002. Meanwhile, Love Letter, a 1995 romantic film directed by Shunji Iwai, remains the most popular Japanese live-action film in the country with 1.15 million viewers.

Watch the trailer for 'Even if This Love disappears from the World Tonight' here: