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Chainsaw Man Anime Film Drops to #9, Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle Stays at #10 in Japan
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Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc, the film based on the Reze Arc of Tatsuki Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man manga, dropped from #8 to #9 in its 16th weekend. The film earned 91,658,400 yen (about US$584,500) from Friday to Sunday. The film has sold a total of 6.65 million tickets, and has earned a total of 10,145,358,600 yen (about US$64.70 million).
The official X/Twitter account for the anime franchise revealed on December 30 the film has sold 6.55 million tickets and has surpassed 10 billion yen (about US$63.7 million), after 103 days in theaters.
The film opened on September 19 and debuted at #1 in its opening weekend, replacing the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle - Akaza Sairai film, which had topped the box office for nine straight weeks. The film sold 807,000 tickets for 1,251,178,500 yen (about US$8.46 million) in its opening weekend.
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has acquired worldwide theatrical rights the film. The company opened the film in theaters in the United States on October 24.
Reina Ueda plays Reze in the film.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle - Akaza Sairai, the first film in the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle trilogy, stayed at #10 in its 25th weekend. The film earned 81,799,700 yen (about US$521,700) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative total of 38,899,623,400 yen (about US$248 million.
The film had sold a total of 23,042,671 tickets for 33,056,606,000 yen (about US$224 million) as of September 15, its 60th day in the Japanese box office. This made 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.
The film is now the highest-earning anime film of all time worldwide, as well as the highest-earning Japanese film of all time worldwide. The film has sold 89,177,796 tickets for 106,370,568,950 yen (about US$685 million) worldwide as of Sunday, November 16. This feat makes it the first Japanese film to earn over 100 billion yen (about US$644 million) worldwide.
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 4K remaster of Satoshi Kon's Paprika anime film ranked at #1 in its first week in the mini theater rankings.
Sources: Kōgyō Tsūshin (link 2) (link 3), comScore via KOFIC
