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Odex Updates Demon Slayer Film's Southeast Asian Opening Dates
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Odex updated its tentative opening dates for its screening of the Demon Slayer – Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train anime film in various Southeast Asian territories on Tuesday. The release schedule is as follows:
- Singapore: Uncut NC16 fan screening on November 7, NC16 general screening starts on November 12, NC16 fan screening with merchandise on December 19
- Malaysia: fan screening on December 5, fan screening with merchandise on December 19, general screening starts on February 4
- Brunei: fan screening to be confirmed, general screening starts on February 4
- Vietnam: fan screening on December 26, general screening starts on January 1
- Indonesia: fan screening on December 19, general screening starts in January
- Philippines: fan screening on November 28, general screening starts in February
- Myanmar: fan screening in January, general screening starts in February
Odex previously announced both uncut NC16 and PG13 screenings for the film in Singapore, but it does not mention PG13 screenings in the new announcement
The film opened on October 16 at #1 in its opening weekend, and had the highest opening weekend globally for the October 16-18 weekend. The film sold 3,424,930 tickets and earned 4,623,117,450 yen (about US$43.85 million) in Japan in its first three days. The film sold 910,507 tickets and earned over 1,268,724,700 yen (about US$12.03 million) in its opening day alone, making it the highest weekday opening day in Japan ever.
The film sold 1,270,234 tickets and earned 1,701,723,350 yen (about US$16.14 million) on its second day. It sold 1,239,752 tickets and earned 1,652,669,400 yen (about US$15.67 million) on its third day. The Saturday and Sunday totals combined are Japan's highest weekend opening ever.
The film has sold over 11 million tickets to earn a cumulative 15,799,365,450 yen (about US$150 million). The film is now ranked at #10 among all movies that ever opened in Japan (including foreign films), moving James Cameron's Avatar to #11 with its 15.6 billion yen (about US$148 million by today's conversion) gross.
The main staff members of the television anime returned for the sequel. LiSA returned to perform the film's theme song ”Homura" (Flame). TOHO and Aniplex are handling the film's distribution.
Aniplex of America describes the television anime's story:
It is the Taisho Period in Japan. Tanjiro, a kindhearted boy who sells charcoal for a living, finds his family slaughtered by a demon. To make matters worse, his younger sister Nezuko, the sole survivor, has been transformed into a demon herself.Though devastated by this grim reality, Tanjiro resolves to become a “demon slayer” so that he can turn his sister back into a human, and kill the demon that massacred his family.
