| Crayon Shin-Chan The Movie: Crash! Graffiti Kingdom and Almost Four Heroes | |||||
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| Kanji | クレヨンしんちゃん 激突! ラクガキングダムとほぼ四人の勇者 | ||||
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| Directed by | Takahiko Kyogoku | ||||
| Based on | Crayon Shin-chan byYoshito Usui | ||||
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| Music by | Toshiyuki Arakawa | ||||
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| Distributed by | Toho | ||||
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Running time | 103 min | ||||
| Country | Japan | ||||
| Language | Japanese | ||||
| Box office | $11 million[1] | ||||
Crayon Shin-chan: Crash! Graffiti Kingdom and Almost Four Heroes is a 2020 Japaneseanime film produced byShin-Ei Animation. It is the 28th film of the popular comedymanga andanime seriesCrayon Shin-chan and the first in theReiwa era.[2][3] The film was originally scheduled for release in theaters in Japan on April 24, 2020, but was postponed to September 11, 2020, due to concerns over theCOVID-19 pandemic.[4][5]
The film's story features a "magical crayon" and centers around a floating kingdom called Rakuga Kingdom (the name is a pun on the word "rakugaki," meaning "scribbling"). The kingdom gets its energy from scribbles, but lately, the scribbles are decreasing, due to the advent ofsmartphones &iPads, so the kingdom is in danger of collapsing. To save the country, the Rakuga military started to capture and force children of Kasukabe to scribble. This leads Shinnosuke, along with his family and friends protect the town and Rakuga Kingdom.[6]
In India, It premiered onSony YAY! on 15 June 2024 asShin-chan In Rakuga Kingdom In Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Bengali.[7]
Debuting on 317 screens, the film opened at #1 and sold 212,000 tickets, earning around 262 million yen (about US$2.47 million) in its opening weekend.[6] By the sixth weekend, the film dropped from #5 to #7 in ranking and earned an overall gross of 1,085,377,700 yen (about US$10.28 million).[8][9]
