The following is a list of the highest-grossing films in Japan. This list only accounts for the films' box office earnings at cinemas and not their ancillary revenues (i.e. home video sales, video rentals, television broadcasts, or merchandise sales). Two tables are listed in terms of nominal gross revenue, while the two other tables are listed in terms of box office admissions.
Among the films that have grossed over ¥10 billion in Japan, seventeen are Japanese films.
The following table lists high-grossing films by the number of box office admissions, which refers to the number of cinema tickets sold at the Japanese box office. Only films that have sold at least 10 million tickets are listed. The list is not ranked, as the list is incomplete.
A separate column lists the gross revenue adjusted for ticket price inflation in 2021, based on data from the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan¥1,410).[19] Admissions better reflect the popularity of older films, since they are less susceptible to the effects of inflation. This mainly affects films released prior the 1990s, as there has been very little Japanese ticket price inflation since the 1990s. Where the number of admissions is unknown, they are estimated by dividing the nominal gross revenue by the average ticket price in the year of release (or the distributor rentals by the average rental earnings per ticket) to provide an estimate.[19][20]
(MPPAJ). The adjusted gross revenue is calculated by multiplying the total number of admissions by the average 2021 ticket price (Title | Year | Box office admissions (est.) | Adjusted revenue (est.) (¥ billion)[19] | |
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Ticket sales (millions) | Ref | |||
The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya | 1942 | 100.00 | [21][22] | 141 |
Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train | 2020 | 29.15 | [23] | 41.1 |
Spirited Away | 2001 | 24.28 | [23] | 34.2 |
Tokyo Olympiad | 1965 | 23.50 | [24] | 33.1 |
Frozen | 2014 | 20.03 | [25] | 28.2 |
Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War | 1957 | 20.00 | [26] | 28.2 |
Your Name | 2016 | 19.30 | [23] | 27.2 |
Titanic | 1997 | 17.43 | [23] | 26.2 |
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | 2001 | 16.25 | [23] | 22.9 |
Howl's Moving Castle | 2004 | 15.50 | [27] | 21.9 |
Princess Mononoke | 1997 | 14.97 | [23] | 21.1 |
One Piece Film: Red | 2022 | 14.74 | [28] | 20.1 |
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | 2002 | 14.20 | [29] | 20.0 |
Bayside Shakedown 2 | 2003 | 13.00 | [30] | 18.3 |
Ponyo | 2008 | 12.90 | [31] | 18.2 |
King Kong vs. Godzilla | 1962 | 12.60 | [32] | 17.8 |
The Last Samurai | 2003 | 12.10 | [33] | 17.1 |
Antarctica | 1983 | 12.00 | [34] | 16.9 |
Jaws | 1975 | 11.98 | [1][19] | 16.9 |
The Loyal 47 Ronin | 1958 | 11.74 | [35][19] | 16.6 |
Sanjuro | 1962 | 11.20 | [36][37] | 15.8 |
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | 2004 | 11.00 | [29] | 15.5 |
Suzume † | 2022 | 10.90 | [38] | 15.4 |
Weathering with You | 2019 | 10.51 | [39] | 14.8 |
Frozen II | 2019 | 10.44 | [39] | 14.7 |
Avatar | 2011 | 10.10 | [40] | 15.6 |
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | 1982 | 10.00 | [41] | 14.1 |
indicates the film is a Japanese production.[1]
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Film franchise/series | Admissions (est. millions) | Debut year | Ref |
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Doraemon | 138.53 | 1980 | [al] |
Godzilla (Gojira) | 117.83 | 1954 | [am] |
Wizarding World | 90.44 | 2001 | [an] |
Pokémon | 86.27 | 1998 | [ap] |
Otoko wa Tsurai yo (Tora-san) | 81.22 | 1969 | [aq] |
Detective Conan (Case Closed) | 79.31 | 1997 | [b] |
Star Wars | 62.44 | 1978 | [ar] |
Dragon Ball | 58.93 | 1986 | [at] |
One Piece | 45.06 | 2000 | [j] |
Jurassic Park | 37.36 | 1993 | [au] |
Pirates of the Caribbean | 32.15 | 2003 | [av] |
Bayside Shakedown | 31.46 | 1998 | [aw] |
Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) | 30.50 | 2008 | [ax] |
Frozen | 30.47 | 2014 | [25][39] |
Spider-Man | 26.33 | 1978 | [ay] |
And while none of these titles is likely to be a blockbuster on the scale of Fuji's "Bayside Shakedown 2" – which was seen by 13 million people
More than 10 million people in Japan have seen the film "E.T., The Extra-Terrestrial," a record
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