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Suzume is the first big Makoto Shinkai anime film to open in November, moving from the usual summer openings of Your Name and Weathering With You. Though this doesn’t seem to have been an issue for the anime film as it was the biggest opening for a Shinkai film ever and the 10th biggest three-day opening of all time in Japan.

As of Sunday, November 13, Suzume has made 1.88 billion yen (US$13.51 million) on the back of 1.08 million tickets sold. Despite the release of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever on the same day, Suzume took over screens all over Japan with back-to-back showings every day from morning to night with Wakanda Forever only getting a small number of screenings in comparison.

Suzume made 114.7% of Weathering With You’s three-day opening box office gross. Back in 2019, Weathering With You had an increase of 28.6% over Your Name’s three-day opening, making Suzume the best opener for a Shinkai film. Though, as mentioned earlier, Your Name and Weathering With You opened either during or just before Japan’s summer holidays and ran over Obon, giving them the best chance at the box office. Suzume isn’t so blessed in that regard with the winter holidays being after both THE FIRST SLAM DUNK and Avatar 2 open at the end of December.

The next few weeks will decide where Suzume ends up on the all-time charts and if it comes close to Weathering With You’s total box office. It’s highly unlikely to even come close to Your Name or even One Piece Film Red.

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Suzume is directed by Makoto Shinkai, who also penned the screenplay for the film alongside Masayoshi Tanaka as the character designer, Kenichi Tsuchiya as the animation director and Takumi Tanji as the art director with animation production at CoMix Wave Films. 

Suzume released in Japan on November 11 with Crunchyroll teaming up with Sony Pictures and Wild Bunch International to bring the feature to global audiences outside of Asia in early 2023.

Source: Oricon

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Daryl Harding is a Senior Japan Correspondent for Crunchyroll News. He also runs a YouTube channel about Japan stuff called TheDoctorDazza, tweets at @DoctorDazza, and posts photos of his travels on Instagram.