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See Highest-grossing Japanese films in Japan below for more complete data within the domestic Japanese market and Japanese films by number of box office admissions for more data on both domestic and overseas performance, especially for films released prior to 1997. The highest-grossing Japanese film in terms of box office ticket sales is the ...
This mainly affects films released prior the 1990s, as there has been very little Japanese ticket price inflation since the 1990s. Where the number of admissions is unknown, they are estimated by dividing the nominal gross revenue by the average ticket price in the year of release (or the distributor rentals by the average rental earnings per ...
Pom Poko was the number one Japanese film on the domestic market in 1994, earning ¥2.63 billion in distribution income, [8] and grossing ¥4.47 billion in total box office revenue. [1] It became the 2nd highest-grossing animated film after The Lion King .
The top 49 films listed are also among the 50 highest-grossing animated films and the top 11 are among the 50 highest-grossing films, each having grossed in excess of $1 billion worldwide. † Background shading indicates films playing in the week commencing 20 December 2024 in theaters around the world .
It debuted in Japanese theaters as the third highest-grossing Japan-only film of its opening weekend behind Letters from Iwo Jima and Eragon, earning approximately ¥246 million ($2,085,729). [8] By the end of 2006, the movie had a total revenue of ¥1.526 billion ($12,915,432), becoming the 30th highest-grossing film that year in the region. [ 9 ]
The success of the film also extended beyond Japan. In China, it became the highest-grossing Japanese film in the world's second-largest movie market on December 17, 2016. [67] It has grossed $81.3 million in China and is the highest-grossing 2D animated film in the country. [68] Its opening screened in over 7,000 theaters.
The year was severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic which led to a major decline in box office revenue due to the closure of cinemas and movie theaters. For the first time in box office history, two non-American animated film productions (Asian films), Demon Slayer: Mugen Train from Japan and Jiang Ziya from China, have become the highest-grossing animated films of the year. [206]
Animated film Roger Allers Rob Minkoff: The Walt Disney Company Toy Story: 1995 $14.8 billion: Retail sales – $11 billion [ax] Box office – $3.273 billion [203] VHS sales – $290 million [46] DVD & Blu-ray sales – $250 million [204] Animated film Pixar John Lasseter: The Walt Disney Company Peanuts: 1950 $14.4 billion: Retail sales ...