Don't know how the current non-US list of Top Ten films stands in 2007,
but in '05, both "Bayside Shakedown" movies still seemed to be in the
top ten, the first one beating out "Antarctica" [Americanized as "Eight
Below"]--
The feudal dramas "Heaven and Earth" and "Silk Road" ("Dunhuang") didn't
quite light fires over here, and only in Japan could several million
adult Sasakis make "Koneko Monogatari" a briefly all-time #1 hit. (We
would know it better as "Adv. of Milo & Otis".)
As for "Crying Out Love in the Center of the World" (based on a
bestseller at the time), believe that's the romance dorama you're
looking for.
Derek Janssen (darn,
BoxOfficeMojo.com doesn't post Japan on the
All-Time Intl.'s anymore)
ejanss@
comcast.net
