Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Film: Infinity Citadel has damaged a string of field workplace data in Japan and brought practically $50m over the vacation weekend.
The highly-anticipated anime characteristic was launched on Friday (July 18) and earned $11.1m (¥1.64bn) from 1.15 million admissions – Japan’s greatest ever opening day takings
On Sunday (July 20), the movie earned $13.8m (¥2.038b), marking the best single-day gross in Japanese historical past.
It additionally set an area report for the largest three-day weekend, incomes $37.3m (¥5.52bn) from 3.84 million admissions from July 18-20.
All these data have been beforehand held by the earlier authentic characteristic within the franchise, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Film: Mugen Prepare, which earned $31.2m (¥4.62b) on its opening weekend of October 16-18, 2020. That movie went on to grow to be Japan’s highest-grossing movie of all time, taking $507m worldwide.
It was a public vacation in Japan yesterday – Marine Day – and boosted field workplace for Infinity Citadel to $49.4m (¥7.31b) from 5.16 million admissions throughout the 4 days, marking an extra report.
Infinity Citadel set an extra opening report for Imax in Japan, with an estimated $3m from 59 Imax screens, and $3.5m together with the Marine Day vacation (July 21) – a display common of $48,000.
The figures have been launched by Toho, which distributes the movie with Sony-owned Aniplex.
Infinity Citadel is the most recent within the standard animated movie and TV franchise primarily based on the manga by Koyoharu Gotoge and is the primary of a deliberate trilogy of movies wrapping up the story.
Directed by Haruo Sotozaki, it follows the continuing adventures of Tanjiro Kamado, a younger man devoted to looking down monsters as a part of the Demon Slayer Corps after his youthful sister was changed into one.
The 155-minute characteristic opened on 443 screens, 40 greater than Mugen Prepare’s 403 screens in 2020.
After 4 days, Infinity Citadel is already Japan’s second highest-grossing movie of the 12 months up to now, behind Detective Conan: One-eyed Flashback, which has earned $97.9m (¥14.47bn) since opening on April 18.
Over the three-day weekend, the movie that ranked second was Aniplex’s Kokuho, which added $3.45m for a cume of $44.9m. Directed by Lee Sang-il, the three-hour epic a couple of household of kabuki performers premiered at Cannes and is Japan’s highest-grossing live-action home movie of 2025 up to now.
US tentpole Superman got here third with $961,000 – a steep drop on its second weekend of launch – for a cume of $5.1m.