Oscar-winning 'Okuribito' top weekend box office performer

Oscar-winning 'Okuribito' top weekend box office performer

TOKYO, Japan - People flock to a cinema in Yurakucho in Tokyo to see Oscar-winning film ''Okuribito'' (Departures) on March 2. The film, which won the Oscar for best foreign-language film at the Academy Awards on Feb. 22, became the top box office performer in Japan for the first time since its premiere last fall with revenues of 320 million yen last weekend, Shochiku Co., the distributor of the movie, said the same day. (Kyodo)

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