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.
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 earned 1,072,252,950 yen (about US$9.37 million) in Japan on its debut day on a Friday last December.
The film earned US$4,579,727 over the weekend, earning US$1,301,503 on Friday, US$1,883,932 on Saturday, and US$1,390,000 on Sunday, respectively.
The film earned 2,694,128,150 yen (about US$23.5 million) in its first three days in Japan.