Film has earned US$55 million in U.S., becoming 3rd highest-grossing foreign-language film
The Numbers website confirmed on Sunday that Godzilla Minus One, Takashi Yamazaki‘s new film in TOHO‘s Godzilla franchise, has earned the equivalent of US$102,496,330 globally. It earned an estimated US$55,009,463 in the United States and US$47,486,867 internationally.
Update: Deadline reported on Sunday that the film has now become the third highest-grossing foreign-language film of all time in the United States, surpassing 2002’s Hero and 2019’s Parasite. The top two spots belong to 2000’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (US$129 million) and 1997’s Life is Beautiful (US$57.6 million).
Additionally, Hoichoi Productions began streaming a 33-minute interview video on January 26 with director Takashi Yamazaki. The video has English subtitles.
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The film has earned a cumulative total of 5,454,610,580 yen (about US$37.0 million) in Japan as of January 21, its 12th weekend in Japan.
The film opened in Japan on November 3, 2023 (“Godzilla Day”), which was the anniversary of the first Godzilla film’s November 3, 1954 release. The new film screened at The Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) as the closing film of this year’s event on November 1.
The film sold 648,600 tickets for 1,041,193,460 yen (about US$6.93 million) in its first three days in the Japanese box office. The film sold 14.7% more tickets and earned 22.8% more in its first three days than the last live-action Japanese Godzilla film, Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi‘s Shin Godzilla, did in its first three days in 2016.
Godzilla Minus One opened in U.S. theaters on December 1, and earned US$11,419,975 in its first three days to rank #3 in the U.S. box office in its opening weekend. The film has the highest opening weekend for a foreign film in the United States in 2023, surpassing the US$10.1 million opening weekend earnings of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc in March. The film has become the highest-earning live-action Japanese film in North America.
Takashi Yamazaki is the director and writer, and is also credited for visual effects. Yamazaki has primarily directed live-action films, including the Always: Sunset on Third Street, Returner, and Parasyte films, but has also directed CG films such as Stand By Me Doraemon.
Ryunosuke Kamiki plays protagonist Kōichi Shikishima, and Minami Hamabe plays heroine Noriko Ōishi. (The two also lead the cast of NHK‘s weekday morning series Ranman.) Other cast members include Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Sakura Andō, and Kuranosuke Sasaki.
Source: The Numbers
