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1st Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle Film Stays at #1 for 9th Week, You and Idol Precure Film Opens at #4
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The film has sold a total of 23,042,671 tickets for 33,056,606,000 yen (about US$224 million) as of Monday, September 15, its 60th day in the Japanese box office. This makes it the second highest earning film of all time at the Japanese box office, surpassing Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli's 2001 film Spirited Away, which earned 31,680,000,000 (about US$315 million in 2001's yen-dollar conversion) to become the #2 highest-earning film of all time in Japan.
Demon Slayer – Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train, the October 2020 film from the same franchise, is currently the highest earning film in Japan, with a 40.75 billion yen (about US$277 million in current conversion) total take in Japan. The film itself surpassed Spirited Away (then the #1 highest earning film in Japan) in December 2020, two months after it opened in Japan.
Haruo Sotozaki is directing the anime at ufotable, and ufotable is also credited for the screenplay. Aimer is performing the song "Taiyō ga Noboranai Sekai" ("A World Where the Sun Never Rises"), and LiSA is performing the song "Zankoku no Yoru ni Kagayake" ("Shine in the Cruel Night").
The film opened in Japan on August 29, and ranked at #2 in its opening weekend. The film sold 672,000 tickets and earned 960,867,600 yen (about US$6.46 million) in its first three days. The film now has the highest earning opening three days for a live-action film in Japan for 2025.
The film had its world premiere screening at Cannes during the festival on May 19. The film had an eight-minute standing ovation at its Cannes screening. The film's poster (image left) also won Cannes' Prix Luciole poster competition.
The film will also have its screening at the Centrepiece Section of the 50th Toronto International Film Festival, which will be held on September 4-14; and at the 58th SITGES - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia in Spain, on October 9-19.
North American film distribution company NEON (Oscar-winning films Parasite, Anora U.S. distributor) will release the film in North America in early 2026.
Singer and actor Kazunari Ninomiya (live-action Letters from Iwo Jima, Ōoku, Gantz, Assassination Classroom) stars in the film in his first collaboration with writer-director Genki Kawamura (producer on your name., Fireworks, Should We See it from the Side or the Bottom?, Suzume).
In the game, a player is trapped at a subway train station, in an underground passageway that goes in an endless loop. To escape to "Exit 8," the player must keep walking while looking carefully for any anomaly that foreshadows danger.
The film's story is set on Aiai Island during the Super Miracle Idol Festival, the #1 idol festival in the universe. Uta and the others join idols from around the world, but Uta meets Tera, a red-haired girl who despises idols. The film previously teased the appearances of the characters from the franchise's previous two main anime entries, Soaring Sky! Pretty Cure and Wonderful Precure!
The five Precure girls (as voiced by their respective cast members) perform the "♪HiBiKi Au Uta♪" theme song.
The cast also includes Maaya Uchida as Tera, Ayane Sakura as Amas, and comedian Atsuhiro Tsuda, from the comedy duo Diane, as Totto.
Each filmgoer who is in junior high school or lower will receive one of two different, randomly distributed light-up Miracle Aiai Bracelets. The nationwide concert tour accompanying the film will feature the film's theme song, and participating theaters will stream the tour's final stop for live viewing.
Karada Sagashi The Last Night, the sequel to the 2022 Karada Sagashi live-action film adaptation of Katsutoshi Murase and Welzard's horror manga, dropped off the top 10 in its second weekend, but still earned 92,471,280 yen (about US$630,400) from Friday to Sunday. The film has earned a cumulative total of 314,084,100 yen (about US$2.14 million).
The second weekend of the revival screenings for the Hypnosis Mic -Division Rap Battle- movie did not rank in the top 10, but still earned 67,994,200 (about US$463,600) yen. The film has earned a cumulative total of 2,216,725,100 yen (about US$15.11 million). The revival screenings opened on September 2.
Eiga Crayon Shin-chan Chō Karei! Shakunetsu no Kasukabe Dancers (Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Super Magnificent! Scorching Kasukabe Dancers), the latest anime film in the Crayon Shin-chan series, dropped off the list in its sixth weekend. The film still earned 47,361,400 yen (about US$322,900) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative total of 2,159,302,900 yen (about US$14.72 million).
The new theatrical screenings of the Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz anime stayed at #1 in the mini-theater rankings in its second weekend.
Sources: Kōgyō Tsūshin (link 2, link 3), comScore via KOFIC
