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1st Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle Film Sells 67 Million Tickets Globally

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle - Akaza Sairai, the first film in the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle trilogy, has sold 67,020,204 tickets worldwide for 82,359,480,810 yen (about US$568 million at the US$1-to-145 yen exchange rate) as of Monday. In particular, it sold 8.91 million tickets for over US$100 million in the United States, and 23,727,443 tickets for 34,186,470,400 yen (about US$236 million) in Japan after 67 days.

The film's X (formerly Twitter) account also revealed its sixth key visual on Tuesday.

The Box Office Mojo website earlier reported the film's estimated total worldwide earnings at US$555 million as of Sunday, making it the highest-earning anime film of all time worldwide, as well as the highest-earning Japanese film of all time worldwide. It is also the #9 highest-grossing film worldwide for 2025, after surpassing The Fantastic Four: First Steps and Captain America: Brave New World. 

The film earned US$4,606,947 on Friday, US$7,326,408 on Saturday, and US$5,370,352 on Sunday, bringing the film's box office total in the United States to US$104,733,741 as of Sunday. The film has become the highest-grossing anime film in the country (unadjusted for inflation) and also the first to earn over US$100 million there.

The film earned US$70,611,098 in its opening weekend. Besides breaking the record for the biggest opening weekend for an anime film in the U.S. — unadjusted for inflation, it also broke the same record even when adjusted for inflation by two different measures. The 1999 anime film Pokémon: The First Movie (Pocket Monsters: Mewtwo Strikes Back) previously held the biggest opening weekend record at US$31 million.

The film has 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 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").

Source: Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web, Oricon