The entertainment website Deadline reported that the film Kimetsu no Yaiba: Mugen Ressha-hen is now the seventh highest grossing film worldwide this year, combining the Japanese gross with the Taiwanese estimates (if only Japan is considered, it would be the eighth). The film is also the fifth highest grossing film outside the United States this year, and the second highest grossing animated film this year.
This year's only animated film that still surpasses Kimetsu no Yaiba: Mugen Ressha-hen is the Chinese feature film, Legend of Deification, with an equivalent gross of over $240.5 million, while the third is the Disney Pixar film, Onward, which accumulated over $141.49 million.
On the other hand, the film Kimetsu no Yaiba: Mugen Ressha-hen has sold 15.37 million tickets for a gross of 20,483,611,650 yen (approximately 197 million dollars) in Japan alone, and is now the fifth highest grossing film in the entire history of the country, surpassing the 20.3 billion yen gross of the film Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, as well as becoming the third highest grossing animated film in the history of Japan.
The film premiered in Japanese cinemas on October 16 in Japan and is a direct sequel to the anime events, adapting the "Arc of the Infinite Train" from the original manga. Koyoharu Gotouge published the manga in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine between February 2016 and May 2020.
Synopsis of Kimetsu no Yaiba: Mugen Ressha-hen
Tanjirou Kamado and his friends from the Demon Hunter Corps accompany the Fire Pillar, Kyoujurou Rengoku, on a mission to investigate a series of disappearances occurring inside a train. Little do they know that Enmu, one of the members of the Twelve Moons of the Demons, is also on board and has set a trap for them.
Sources: Deadline (Nancy Tartaglione), Box Office Mojo
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