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Japanese entertainment news website Cinema Today reported on Bunka Tsūshinsha’s top 10 highest-grossing domestic and foreign films of 2023 on Sunday.
The domestic slate includes six anime films, two live-action films based on manga, and one Godzilla film. Listings and earnings are updated as of December 24 and are only partially estimated.
This list includes gross earnings even for movies opening in 2022, such as The First Slam Dunk (opening December 3, 2022). The film hadn’t made enough money to crack last year’s top 10 by the time those lists were published.
Top 10 highest-grossing domestic films in Japan in 2023
The First Slam Dunk: 15.74 billion yen (about 112 million USD) Detective Conan: Kurogane no Submarine: 13.83 billion yen (about 98.1 million USD) The Boy and the Heron: 8.66 billion yen (about 61.4 million USD) Kingdom: Unmei no Honō: 5.6 billion yen (about 39.7 million USD) Don’t call it a mystery: 4.76 billion yen (about 33.8 million USD) Godzilla Minus One: 4.64 billion yen (about 32.9 million USD) Gekijōban TOKYO MER: Hashiru Kinkyū Kyūmeishitsu: 4.53 billion yen (about 32.1 million USD) Doremon the Movie 2023: Nobita’s Sky Utopia: 4.34 billion yen (about 30.8 million USD) World Tour Jōei: Kimetsu no Yaiba Jōgen Shūketsu, Soshite Katanakaji no Sato e (theater screening of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc): 4.16 billion yen (about 29.5 million USD) USD) IDOLiSH7 LIVE 4bit BEYOND THE PERiOD: 2.89 billion yen (about 20.5 million USD)
Last year, One Piece Film Red topped the list, grossing 18.78 billion yen (about US$141.6 million at the time).
Top 10 highest-grossing foreign films in Japan in 2023
Super Mario Bros. Movie: 14.02 billion yen (about 99.4 million USD) Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One: 5.43 billion yen (about 38.5 million USD) Avatar: The Way of Water: 4, 31 billion yen (about 30.6 million USD) Fast X: 3.82 billion yen (about 27.1 million USD) The Little Mermaid: 3.4 billion yen (about 24.1 million USD) billion yen (about 19.1 million USD) Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny: 2.6 billion yen (about 18.4 million USD) BTS: Yet To Come in Cinema: 2.53 billion yen (about 18.0 million USD) USD) Haunted House: 2.17 billion yen (about 15.4 million USD) Meg 2: The Trench: 1.46 billion yen (about 10.4 million USD)
Last year, Top Gun Maverick topped the list, grossing 13.5 billion yen (about $101.9 million at the time).
Source: Today’s Cinema (壬生智裕) (link 2, 壬生智裕)
