Demon Slayer - Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train stayed at #1 in its 15th weekend. The film earned 183,633,400 yen (about US$1.76 million) from Friday to Sunday, and it has earned a cumulative total of 36,550,114,550 yen (about US$352.1 million). It has sold 26.67 million tickets as of Sunday.
After 12 consecutive weeks at #1 in the box office in Japan, the film dropped to #2 during the January 9-10 weekend, its 13th weekend. During that weekend, the film sold 425,000 tickets and earned 677,783,450 yen (about US$6.57 million) from Friday to Sunday. The film returned to the #1 spot in its 14th weekend.
The film has surpassed Hayao Miyazaki s 2002
1st Sailor Moon Eternal film opens at #9 // Gintama The Final, the new anime film of Hideaki Sorachi s Gintama manga, ranked #1 in its opening weekend ending.
Demon Slayer - Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train stayed at #1 for an 11th consecutive weekend. It earned 907,618,200 yen (about US$8.75 million) from Friday to Sunday. The film has now sold a total of 24,049,907 tickets to earn 32,478,895,850 yen (about US$314 million) in 73 days thus making it the highest-earning film ever in Japan.
The film was the first to top the Japanese box office for 10 straight weekends since Kōgyō Tsūshin began publishing the Japanese rankings in 2004. Three films previously ranked #1 for nine straight weekends: Howl s Moving Castle in 2004,
Avatar in 2009, and Your Name in 2016.
Mugen Train began holding immersive MX4D and 4DX screenings on Saturday, December 26.
Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in August 2016, and ended it on June 15.
An anime adaptation premiered in January 2019. Aniplex of America streamed the anime on Crunchyroll, Hulu, Funimation, and HIDIVE as it aired. Toonami began airing the anime in April 2019. A second season of the anime was scheduled to premiere in October, but is delayed to January 7 due to the effect of the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on the production.
The
Stand By Me Doraemon 2 CG anime film dropped from #3 to #4 in its fifth weekend, and it earned 118,872,850 (about US$1.15 million) from Friday to Sunday. The film has now earned a cumulative total of 1,986,991,900 yen (about US$19.22 million).
Demon Slayer - Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train stayed at #1 for its ninth weekend. It sold 655,000 tickets over the weekend and earned 939,411,200 yen (about US$9.02 million) from Friday to Sunday. The film has now sold a total of 22,539,385 tickets to earn 30,289,307,700 yen (about US$291 million) in 59 days.
It is the first film since Hayao Miyazaki s 2002
Spirited Away film to earn more than 30 billion yen at the Japanese box office.
Mugen Train is also the fastest to reach the milestone, since Spirited Away took 253 days to reach it. Spirited Away remains
Mugen Train s last rival for all-time highest earnings in Japanese box office history. (