Demon Slayer Film Passes 30 Billion Yen, On Pace To Become Japan’s Highest-Grossing Movie Ever

Infinity Castle – Part 1 is also the fastest film to hit the 30 billion yen mark domestically, meaning it’s quite possible it will end up the highest-grossing film in Japanese box office history. It has now maintained the number 1 spot for eight consecutive weeks.

As for its global earnings, the movie has made around $273 million worldwide, even before opening in most countries outside of Southeast Asia. Between today and tomorrow, it will more or less truly debut across the globe, coming out in dozens more countries alongside its American release on September 12.

The movie is the first in a trilogy that will conclude Ufotable’s long-running anime adaptation of Koyoharu Gotouge’s extremely popular manga, which ran for 23 volumes between 2016 and 2020. The anime began in 2019 and has gone for four seasons across 63 episodes, before jumping exclusively to the big screen with this Infinity Castle trilogy—while the Demon Slayer Mugen Train film also debuted in theaters, it was eventually recut as the show’s second season.

For those who haven’t watched the series, it follows Tanjiro, a kind-hearted kid whose family is massacred in a demon attack that leaves his sister as the sole survivor; the catch is that she became a demon in the process (demons in this world essentially function like vampires). To restore his sibling’s humanity and avenge his lost loved ones, he joins the Demon Slayer Corps in hopes of stopping these fiends for good. The film trilogy will cover the final battle in this story, and this first part runs for a meaty 155 minutes.  It will be interesting to see how the movie fares as it comes to theaters worldwide over the next two days.