Japan Box Office: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle First Movie Satays at No.1 for 3 Consecutive Weekends

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle earned 2.457 billion yen (16.75 million USD) on 1,739,600 admissions in its third weekend of August 1-3, according to Kogyo Tsushinsha . The third weekend gross was down 21% from the second weekend , but was still enough to keep the film in first place in the Japan box office ranking for three consecutive weekends. The Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba's official X (formerly Twitter) announced on August 4 that the film's cumulative total gross had reached 17,639,557,600 yen (120 million USD) on 12,558,582 admissions in 17 days since its release in Japan on July 18, which was 112 % of the three-week gross of the franchise's previous film in 2020, Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train . As previously reported , Infinity Castle already broke the record for the fastest Japanese film to reach the 10 billion mark. Demon Slayer: Kimetsi no Yaiba Infinity Castle now stands at tenth place in the all-time box office ranking in Japan and has also become the seventh top-grossing Japanese animated film to date, surpassing THE FIRST SLAM DUNK with 16.48 billion yen (112.2 million USD) in 2022. As a result, Japanese live-action films have disappeared from the all-time Top 10, and seven of which are now Japanese anime movies. Top 10 All-Time Box Office Films in Japan Infinity Castle was the only Japanese animated film that made it into the Top 10 last weekend, as Uta no Prince-sama The Movie: TABOO NIGHT XXXX disappeared from the Top 10 again in its 13th weekend. The film dropped out of the Top 10 in its tenth weekend, but resurfaced to eighth in the following weekend. Weekend box office Top 10 in Japan (August 1-3, 2025) (ticket sales basis with notes in parentheses marking previous week's placement) Sources: Kogyo Tsushinsha weekend ranking , Eiga.com , " "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba" official X (formerly Twitter)

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