Weathering With You Box Office Net
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Makoto Shinkai‘s Weathering With You film is as yet solid at Japanese film industry. The film has so far earned 13.51 billion yen (about US$126 million) from its 12-week run, which has outperformed the complete film industry gross of E.T. (1982) and Armageddon (1989), both made 13.5 billion yen in Japan.

Presently the Weathering With You film has turned into the thirteenth top-earning film at Japanese film industry ever, and is relied upon to top The Last Samurai (2003’s) 13.7 billion yen soon (about US$127 million).

As announced, the romantic comedy film had sold ten million tickets in Japan by October 1, in 75 days since its discharge on July 19.

The Wethering With You film opened in 359 theaters and 448 screens in Japan on July 19. The last Japanese film to acquire more than 10 billion yen was Shinkai’s past film Your Name. three years back. 

Weathering With You Box Office Net
Photo Credit: CoMix Wave Films Story Inc

The film sold 1,159,020 tickets for 1,643,809,400 yen around US$15.22 million in its first three days in quite a while. The film positioned #1 in its opening end of the week.

GKIDS has approved that the film for North America and will give the film a “grants qualifying” showy keep running for this present year before a progressively broad screening with inscriptions and an English dub in mid-2020.

GKIDS portrays 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 strong-­willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky…”


(c) Makoto Shinkai, / “Weathering With You” Production Committee