Japanese don't go out to watch movies often, they actually think it's too expensive and would rather buy things on DVD and watch it at home.
FFXV was held at 44 theatres and imagine around 50-100 people per theatre and 10 screenings over the weekend. Not too bad for limited release.
It isn't the number that really matters, even if it was 22,000 people everyone universally loved it and some americans were there too tweeting out how good it was and talking about it on other forums.
Currently FFXV has 250k pre-orders and is currently the highest pre-ordered game in NA. (PS4/Xbone)
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and 3rd most pre-ordered in japan with a whoping 180k pre orders.
Is the first img VGC I don't recognize it?