The first film of the Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle Arc continues to dominate the Japanese box office, smashing multiple records within days of release.
It has become the fastest film in Japanese history to surpass 10 billion yen in box office revenue, breaking a record previously held by the franchise’s Mugen Train movie. According to data from Kogyo Tsushin, the movie crossed the 10 billion yen milestone just eight days after its July 18 release, with 7.5 million tickets sold and a total revenue of approximately 10.5 billion yen.
This milestone positions the film ahead of Mugen Train, which achieved the same feat in ten days.
By its tenth day, the Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle Arc had grossed 12.8 billion yen from over 9.1 million admissions.
The film grossed over 7.3 billion yen in its opening four-day weekend. In doing so, it broke three major box office records for a film released in Japan: highest opening weekend revenue, highest opening day revenue, and highest single-day revenue.
Infinity Castle movie’s release was met with massive audience demand. Online ticket sales launched at midnight on July 14 reportedly caused ticketing websites to crash. In many instances, tickets for opening weekend showtimes were completely sold out within 10 minutes.
The feature-length film has a runtime of 155 minutes, and is the first instalment of the planned trilogy of movies which will adapt the Infinity Castle arc from the original manga by Koyoharu Gotouge.
An international release starting from Aug 12, 2025 by Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures Entertainment has been announced. The movie will hit theatres in United States and Canada on Sep 12, 2025.
LiSA and Aimer are returning to perform the theme songs of the movie. A brand new trailer was released to commemorate this news in June.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba was serialized in Shueisha’s shonen manga magazine Weekly Shonen Jump from February 2016 to May 2020, with its chapters collected in 23 tankobon volumes. It went on to become on of the highest selling manga with over 150 million copies in circulation.
Source: Oricon