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Box Office: ‘Oppenheimer’ Opens in Japan With $2.5 Million


'Oppenheimer' opened in its final market, Japan, months after it was released everywhere else in the world.

More than eight months (and one Oscar best picture win) after “ Oppenheimer ” landed in theaters, Christopher Nolan’s historical epic is still finding new audiences. It placed third on the country’s box office charts after two local offerings, the horror movie “Strange House” and the animated “Haikyu! It’s controversial in Japan given the subject matter of the film, which follows the American theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (played by Cillian Murphy) who led the creation of the atomic bombs.

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