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Makoto Shinkai‘s Suzume (Suzume no Tojimari) film has now sold a cumulative total of 6.36 million tickets for 8,592,509,010 yen (about US$62.36 million) as of Sunday. This makes it the 68th highest-earning film, and the 16th highest-earning anime film, of all time in Japan.
Suzume already earned more than the #1 Pokémon film (Pokémon: The First Movie), and has now surpassed Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet, the #1 Yōkai Watch film (Yo-kai Watch: The Movie), Ghibli’s Tales from Earthsea, and Stand By Me Doraemon. It also earned more than Hideaki Anno‘s Shin Godzilla film. Only Demon Slayer, six Ghibli films, Shinkai’s own last two films, One Piece Film Red, Jujutsu Kaisen 0, the final Evangelion film, and three Detective Conan films have earned more in Japan.
The film opened in Japan at #1 on November 11 and sold 1.33 million tickets and earned 1.88 billion yen (about…
