Kimetsu no Yaiba: Mugen Ressha-hen is the first film to dominate for ten consecutive weeks since 2004

For the tenth consecutive weekend, the film Kimetsu no Yaiba: Mugen Ressha-hen reached the first position in accumulated takings. Selling 282,000 tickets on its tenth weekend and totaling 390,415,450 yen (approximately $3.77 million), the film has now accumulated 23,175,884 tickets sold for a total gross of 31,166,647,900 yen (approximately $301 million) in 66 days.

This feature film is also the first to dominate the weekend collection listings for ten consecutive weeks, since the Kougyou Tsuushin service began its registrations in 2004. Three films had managed to dominate for new consecutive weeks, including Howl no Ugoku Shiro (The Wandering Castle) in 2004, Avatar in 2009 and Kimi no Na wa (Your Name) in 2016, but none of them were able to make it ten.

Currently, the film is only 520 million yen (approximately $5.03 million) away from topping Studio Ghibli's Hayao Miyazaki's Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (Chihiro's Journey), its latest rival to become the highest grossing film of all time in Japan. This last film has a cumulative box office of 31.68 billion yen.

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: Kōgyō Tsūshin (link 2), Eiga.com, comScore via KOFIC