Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train now owns the Japanese record books.
After a dozen consecutive weeks at the end of last year as the highest-grossing movie in Japan – it is still going strong – in December it surpassed Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away as the No. 1 highest-earning Japanese film of all time.
Now it is topping the box office in the United States, only two weeks after its release there.
Japan’s top government spokesman, Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato, this week celebrated Demon Slayer as “bright news that the Japanese manga culture has been regarded highly across the world”.