One Piece Movie Edition 2009: The Strong World

  The long-lived serial comic "One Piece" is still the most popular work in the magazine "Youth Jump". At present, the comic book One Piece has been published in 55 volumes, with a cumulative sales of more than 170 million copies. In 2009, the animated film version of One Piece Movie Edition 2009: The World of the Strong is the tenth in the whole series. This memorable work was made by the original author Eiichiro Oda himself, providing a story idea for it. This time, the guest voice cast was quite unexpected, including not only Naoto Takenaka, a veteran performer, but also Kosuke Kitajima, a world-famous swimmer.

        The 10th theatrical version of One Piece, The One Piece Movie 2009: The Strong World, was held at the box office celebration in Tokyo, including the popular seiyuu Mayumi Tanaka who voiced the hero "Straw Hat Boy" Monkey D. Luffy. According to the distributor Dongying, as of January 9, 2010, the box office of the film has exceeded 4 billion yen (about 294 million yuan), and the number of people watching movies has exceeded 3.5 million. Both the box office and the number of people watching movies have reached a new high in the history of Dongying, and the box office goal of 5 billion yen (about 3.68 billion yuan) is just around the corner.

  Tanaka, who voiced Luffy, shouted, "I’m so happy!" Immediately mobilized the atmosphere at the scene, and later said that the film made such a great box office, which made all the creators feel very excited, but she revealed that it was the original author Eiichiro Oda’s expectation to have such a high box office.

  As the 10th theatrical edition of the Japanese national cartoon One Piece, it tells the story of a life-and-death duel between the little hero Luffy and his friends and the enigmatic and powerful pirate Golden Lion.

  The film was released in Japan on December 12, 2009, and its opening day set a box office record of 550 million yen (about RMB 40.52 million) in the history of Dongying. In the days that followed, the popularity of the film continued to heat up, with a total of 2.25 billion yuan (about 165 million yuan) in eight days of release, once again setting a new record for the fastest box office in the history of Dongying. When it was released for 24 days, the number of people watching movies had exceeded 3 million, making it the fastest film in the history of Dongying.