It has already surpassed the total theatrical gross of Gareth Edwards’ 2014 film, Godzilla, in Japan (3.2 billion yen), and is almost three times more than Ryuhei Kitamura’s box office bomb in 2004, Godzilla: Final Wars (1.26 billion).
Toho has confirmed that Shin Godzilla (English title: Godzilla Resurgence), the first Japanese Godzilla film in 12 years released on July 29, earned an impressive 3,382,975,500 yen on 2,308,427 admissions in its first 17 days.
Topping the distributor’s initial expectation of 4 billion yen when it was released, crossing the 5 billion yen mark has become really possible for it .