The film is based on Gege Akutami’s Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Tokyo Toritsu Jujutsu Kōtō Senmon Gakkō (Jujutsu Kaisen 0: Tokyo Prefectural Jujutsu High School) manga prequel story, with MAPPA animating again and TOHO distributing.
The Jujutsu Kaisen television anime premiered in October 2020, and it had 24 episodes.
The film has sold 5,671,950 tickets for 7,714,084,650 yen (about US$66.91 million) in the 18 days since it opened on December 24.
Gekijō-ban Jujutsu Kaisen 0 earned 2,694,128,150 yen (about US$23.5 million) in its first three days, and topped the box office chart for its opening weekend.