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Weathering With You Film Earns 13 Billion Yen, Sells 9.8 Million Tickets After 67 Days

Makoto Shinkai's new film Weathering With You (Tenki no Ko) has, as of Sunday, earned over 13 billion yen (about US$120 million) and sold 9.8 million tickets in Japan after 67 days in the Japanese box office.

The film also had a premiere event in India during the Japanese Film Festival in India event on Friday, and it will have a general screening in India beginning on October 11. Weathering With You is only the third Japanese film to have a general screening in India (the other two being Dragon Ball Super: Broly and Shoplifters). The premiere screenings on Friday in New Delhi's Select City Walk mall had over 2,000 people in attendance, and the theater eventually had to turn away over 400 people from the screenings.

The film opened in 359 theaters and 448 screens in Japan on July 19. The film sold 1,159,020 tickets for 1,643,809,400 yen (about US$15.22 million) in its first three days in 358 theaters. The film ranked #1 in its opening weekend. The film is currently the #7 highest-earning domestic film of all time in Japan and the highest-grossing film in Japan this year. The last Japanese film to earn over 10 billion yen was Shinkai's previous film your name. three years ago.

Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) hosted the North American premiere of Weathering With You as part of its Special Presentations category, with screenings on September 8, 10, and 14. Japan submitted the film for consideration in the Best International Feature Film category at the 92nd Academy Awards.

GKIDS has licensed the film for North America, and will give the film an "awards qualifying" theatrical run this year before a wider screening with subtitles and an English dub in early 2020. GKIDS describes the film:

The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if to suggest his future. He lives his days in isolation, but finally finds work as a writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong­willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky...

Source: Animate Times