The official X (formerly Twitter) account of Godzilla Minus One, Takashi Yamazaki’s new film in TOHO’s Godzilla franchise, announced on Monday that the film has earned over 6.01 billion yen (about US$39.9 million) and sold 3.92 million tickets as of Sunday, its 122nd day of screening in Japan.
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.
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.