Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle Part 1 has crossed 1 trillion won (roughly 117.9 billion yen) at the global box office, becoming the first Japanese film to clear the 100-billion-yen worldwide mark.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle Part 1 has crossed 1 trillion South Korean won at the worldwide box office, equivalent to roughly 117.9 billion yen, making it the first Japanese film in history to clear the 100-billion-yen global threshold. The milestone was reached after the Ufotable-produced film opened in China to $52.4 million, pushing its cumulative worldwide gross past $730 million.
No Japanese film had previously crossed the 100-billion-yen line at the global box office. The closest predecessor was the 2020 Demon Slayer feature Mugen Train, which finished its theatrical run at roughly 51.7 billion yen worldwide. Infinity Castle Part 1 has now more than doubled that benchmark, cementing the franchise as the highest-grossing property in Japanese theatrical history and re-setting expectations for what an anime tentpole can do outside its home market.
The film, the first of a planned trilogy adapting the manga's climactic Infinity Castle arc, launched in Japan in mid-2025 and rolled out across Asia, North America, and Europe through the back half of the year. Strong holds in Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia carried the bulk of the early gross, with the long-delayed mainland China release functioning as the final major territory.
China opened Infinity Castle Part 1 in early April 2026 to $52.4 million, one of the strongest debuts for a Japanese animated film in the territory. That opening lifted the worldwide cume past $730 million and pushed the yen-denominated total over the 100-billion-yen line, with the won-denominated tally crossing 1 trillion shortly after.
The China result is notable because anime imports into the mainland have been uneven for years, with release windows and screen counts unpredictable. A debut north of $50 million for a sequel film tied to a multi-year-old TV property suggests Demon Slayer's brand has held across the region even with the lengthy gap since Mugen Train's run.
With Part 1 now the highest-grossing Japanese film ever made, distributor Aniplex and animation studio Ufotable head into Parts 2 and 3 with a sharply elevated baseline. The trilogy structure adapting the Infinity Castle arc across three theatrical chapters rather than a TV season was a calculated bet, and the global gross validates the format for future shonen adaptations weighing theatrical against streaming rollouts.
For Indian audiences, Infinity Castle Part 1 had a theatrical window earlier in its global run through Sony Pictures' local distribution, with the film later available on Crunchyroll's regional service. Release timing for Part 2 in India has not yet been announced, though the trilogy's pacing points to a late-2026 or 2027 window for the next chapter.
The headline number first Japanese film past 100 billion yen worldwide will likely stand as the defining box-office story of the anime industry's 2025-2026 cycle, and sets a target the next wave of anime features will be measured against.
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