Neverland at #8
Demon Slayer – Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train dropped back to #2 in the Japanese box office in terms of tickets sold in its 16th weekend, after two weekends spent back at the top. The film sold 105,000 tickets over the weekend and earned 168,764,100 yen (about US$1.60 million) from Friday to Sunday. It has sold 26.88 million tickets for a cumulative total of 36,884,239,450 yen (about US$351.6 million).
After 12 consecutive weeks at #1 in the box office in Japan, the film dropped to #2 during the January 9-10 weekend, its 13th weekend. During that weekend, the film sold 425,000 tickets and earned 677,783,450 yen (about US$6.57 million) from Friday to Sunday. The film returned to the #1 spot in its 14th weekend.
Demon Slayer - Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train stayed at #1 in its 15th weekend. The film earned 183,633,400 yen (about US$1.76 million) from Friday to Sunday, and it has earned a cumulative total of 36,550,114,550 yen (about US$352.1 million). It has sold 26.67 million tickets as of Sunday.
After 12 consecutive weeks at #1 in the box office in Japan, the film dropped to #2 during the January 9-10 weekend, its 13th weekend. During that weekend, the film sold 425,000 tickets and earned 677,783,450 yen (about US$6.57 million) from Friday to Sunday. The film returned to the #1 spot in its 14th weekend.
The film has surpassed Hayao Miyazaki s 2002
Yurina Hirate (live-action
Hibiki: Shōsetsuka ni Naru Hōhō film s Hibiki Akui) plays the character Erika Hiura in the film. A key character to the story, Hiura looks like a normal high school girl, but can actually inflict powerful curses on people.
Yukihiro Morigaki directed the film, and Tomoko Aizawa penned the script. The band Zutto Mayonaka de Iinoni. (Zutomayo) composed the film s theme song Kuraku Kuroku (Darker and Blacker).
SuBLime is releasing the manga digitally, and it describes the story:
Shy bookstore clerk Kosuke Mikado has the ability to see ghosts and spirits, an ability he wishes he didn t have, since what he sees usually terrifies him. Rihito Hiyakawa, an exorcist whose supernatural powers are as strong as his social graces are weak, doesn t seem to fear anything, mortal or otherwise. When this odd couple gets together to solve the bizarre cases that come their way, their work methods may not be entirely safe for work!
SuBLime is releasing the manga digitally, and it describes the story:
Shy bookstore clerk Kosuke Mikado has the ability to see ghosts and spirits, an ability he wishes he didn t have, since what he sees usually terrifies him. Rihito Hiyakawa, an exorcist whose supernatural powers are as strong as his social graces are weak, doesn t seem to fear anything, mortal or otherwise. When this odd couple gets together to solve the bizarre cases that come their way, their work methods may not be entirely safe for work!
Yamashita launched the manga in