The Mainichi Shimbun reported on Friday that Makoto Shinkai’s Suzume (Suzume no Tojimari) film has sold more than 2 million tickets outside of Japan.
The film sold 38.7% more tickets and earned 47.4% more than Shinkai’s acclaimed your name. film, which earned 1,277,960,000 yen (about US$12.51 million at the time) in its first three days.
The film opened at #1 on November 11 and sold 1.33 million tickets to earn 1.88 billion yen (about US$13.49 million) in its first three days.
Suzume has earned a cumulative total of about 14,135,342,670 yen (about US$106 million) in Japan as of Sunday.