Japan Box Office: 'The Hateful Eight' Opens at No. 8 in Limited Release

Elsewhere, 'The Finest Hours' bows at No. 4 and 'The Martian' takes its total to $23 million after four weekends at No. 1.

Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight opened, appropriately enough, at No. 8 in Japan over the weekend, taking ?47 million ($420,000) from a limited release on 119 screens. Distributor Gaga's decision for a limited release took into account the pic's lack of a top Hollywood star and the limited appeal of Westerns in Japan.

Tarantino's biggest hit here was the heavily Japanese-themed Kill Bill, which grossed $20 million, though Kill Bill II managed only $8.5 million. Inglourious Basterds, helped by Brad Pitt, a big draw in Japan, finished with $6.6 million after a $1.6 million opening weekend.

The Martian spent its fourth weekend atop the box office, taking another $1.9 million on Saturday and Sunday from 145,000 admissions. Ridley Scott's space drama has now collected $23 million to help push its global total past the $400 million mark.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens fell two spots to No. 7 after its 11th weekend and brought its cume to $93.4 million from 7.2 million admissions during its long run in the top 10.

International Weekend 2/28/16

Comscore for Weekend of 2/28/16 Weekend Cume 1. Deadpool $40.2M $324.1M 2. Zootopia $30.0M $81.4M 3. Mei Ren Yu $28.0M $485.0M 4. Gods of Egypt $24.0M $24.2M 5. The Revenant $14.1M $233.5M 6. The Monkey King 2 $8.5M $177.0M 7. Pattaya $6.5M $6.5M 8. How to Be Single $6.1M $22.9M 9. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip $6.1M $139.7M 10. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny $5.5M $36.0M

At No. 2 was local high school drama I'm Not Just Going to Do What Kurosaki-kun Says from the manga-TV series-movie pipeline, which raked in $1.69 million from 158,000 admissions on only 160 screens. That put it at No. 1 on the local charts, which are determined by number of tickets sold rather than box-office gross.

Nobunaga Concerto, a time-travel samurai comedy-drama, fell one place to No. 3 after its sixth weekend of release.

Disney's sea disaster epic The Finest Hours, released in Japan as The Blizzard, bowed at No. 4 and took in $885,000 from a 407-screen release.

At No. 6 was Ericson Core's Point Break remake, down three spots from its debut last weekend.

Next weekend will see a Japan release for The Big Short, fresh from its best adapted screenplay Oscar win. The Adam McKay-directed tale of the global financial crisis will be titled Money Short — Karei naru Dai-Gyakuten (The Splendor of the Big Reversal). Dai-Gyakuten was the Japanese title of the 1983 Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd comedy Trading Places.