The last Japanese film to earn over 10 billion yen was Shinkai’s previous film your name. three years ago.
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) will host the North American premiere of Weathering With You as part of its Special Presentations category.
Weathering With You is also now the highest-grossing Japanese film so far this year.
The film sold 1,159,020 tickets for 1,643,809,400 yen (about US$15.22 million) in its first three days, and ranked #1 in its opening weekend.
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