Suzume Anime Film Drives Up to 25th Place on Japan All-Time Box Office Charts

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Makoto Shinkai’s Suzume anime film continues its journey through Japanese theaters, with international releases to happen later this year, climbing up to be the 25th highest-grossing film of all time at the Japanese box office, marking the third Shinkai-directed film to do so. 

 

As of January 15, Suzume has grossed 12.49 billion yen (US$91.66 million) on the back of 9.39 million tickets sold. The film is only 210 million yen away from overtaking Star Wars: The Phantom Menace’s 24th place after delivering a double Disney dash by overtaking the live-action Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast films. 

 

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Suzume continues to be the 10th highest-grossing anime film of all time in Japan, needing 1.31 billion yen to overtake JUJUTSU KAISEN 0.

 

 

Suzume is directed by Makoto Shinkai, who also penned the screenplay for the film alongside Masayoshi Tanaka as the character designer, Kenichi Tsuchiya as the animation director and Takumi Tanji as the art director with animation production at CoMix Wave Films. 

 

Suzume was released in Japan on November 11 with Crunchyroll teaming up with Sony Pictures and Wild Bunch International to bring the feature to global audiences outside of Asia starting April 12, 2023.

 

Source: Kogyo Tsushin

 

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Daryl Harding is a Senior Japan Correspondent for Crunchyroll News. He also runs a YouTube channel about Japan stuff called TheDoctorDazza, tweets at @DoctorDazza, and posts photos of his travels on Instagram.