Hollywood is losing Japan box office to local body swap tale
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MOVE over, Hollywood - Japanese moviegoers are shopping local these days.
While Walt Disney Co claimed all five of the highest-grossing movies worldwide in 2016, the top spot in the world's fourth-largest box office was a body-swapping, gender-bending animated coming-of-age story, beating out Captain America: Civil War and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the two best performers globally.
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