Complex sentence: It sold 17,543 tickets for 30 million yen (about US $265,000) on its first day of screening in Japan, surpassing the day-one box office results for the first one.
Split into simpler sentences: It sold 17,543 tickets for 30 million yen (about US $265,000) on its first day of screening in Japan. It surpassed the day-one box office results for the first one.