The last Japanese film to earn over 10 billion yen was Shinkai’s previous film your name. three years ago.
The film sold 1,159,020 tickets for 1,643,809,400 yen (about US$15.22 million) in its first three days in 358 theaters.
Weathering With You is also now the highest-grossing Japanese film so far this year after surpassing the live-action Aladdin.
The film was the #8 highest-earning Japanese film of all time in Japan as of last week, but it has now surpassed The Wind Rises (12.02 billion yen) to inch up to #7.