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Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Film Not Licensed for Indian Theatrical Release
posted on by Adriana Hazra
PVR Pictures confirmed with ANN on Saturday that it has not yet acquired the film rights for the Jujutsu Kaisen 0 anime film for India.
The company did not respond to ANN's request for comment to explain further, but did state that it aims to bring more anime film releases to Indian theaters.
Several Indian social media influencers have claimed that PVR Pictures posted on its social media accounts that it had licensed the film, and then removed those posts. ANN could not confirm these claims.
The film has sold a total of 9.07 million tickets for over 12.7 billion yen (about US$107 million) since it opened on December 24, and is currently the 21st highest-grossing film in Japan of all time, surpassing Disney's Aladdin and Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises.
The film is the #1 highest-earning film at the Japanese box office from the 2021 calendar year, after surpassing Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time, according to the Mainichi Shimbun paper's Mantan Web.
The film is based on Gege Akutami's Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Tokyo Toritsu Jujutsu Kōtō Senmon Gakkō (Jujutsu Kaisen 0: Tokyo Prefectural Jujutsu High School) manga prequel story, with MAPPA animating again and TOHO distributing. Megumi Ogata voiced the main character Yuta Okkotsu, and Kana Hanazawa voiced the character Rika Orimoto.
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