During the Qingming Festival on April 3 this year, the animated film " What kind of life do you want to live " directed by the famous Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki was officially released in theaters in mainland China. On the first day, it received a high box office of over 100 million yuan, successfully ranking as the daily box office champion in mainland China. As for the Hollywood monster blockbuster "Godzilla vs. Kong 2", which has only been released for a week, its box office performance on that day was less than 40 million yuan, less than half of "What Kind of Life Do You Want to Live?"
"Godzilla vs. Kong 2" is a monster blockbuster jointly produced by Legendary Pictures and Warner Pictures. Several of its predecessors have been very popular in the Chinese mainland market, and many of them have exceeded the box office in the mainland. 1 billion yuan. Now this sequel has only been released in mainland China theaters for a week, and its daily box office performance in the mainland has been surpassed by a Japanese animated film. It seems that Hollywood blockbusters have still not been able to really open up our mainland market like before.
As for Japanese animated movies, they are becoming more and more popular in mainland China.
"What Kind of Life Do You Want to Live" directed by Hayao Miyazaki actually landed in the Japanese domestic market in July last year. In December last year, the film also landed in North American theaters.
More than half a year has passed before this film was released in Chinese theaters. Under normal circumstances, it would be difficult for it to create a relatively impressive box office performance. However, the box office exceeded 100 million yuan on the first day of release, and the total box office is predicted to exceed 600 million yuan. It can be seen that Chinese audiences still like Japanese animated films, especially animated films directed by director Hayao Miyazaki.
Over the past few years, one or more Hayao Miyazaki animated films have been introduced to the Chinese mainland market every year, and these animated films have been released in Japan and other overseas markets for a long time, but they can still create a huge amount of revenue in mainland China. box office results.
, such as " Spirited Away ", " My Neighbor Totoro " and " Castle in the Sky ", were released in theaters in mainland China again after more than 20 years, and still earned hundreds of millions in box office. The box office result of the re-release of "Spirited Away" was close to 500 million yuan.
In fact, it is not just Chinese audiences who like to watch Japanese animated movies, North American audiences also like them.
Just like "What Kind of Life Do You Want to Live", which was just released in mainland China, the North American box office has exceeded 46 million US dollars (about 332 million yuan), and the global cumulative box office has been nearly 200 million US dollars (about 332 million yuan). 1.37 billion yuan).
will be released in mainland China this time, and the media predicts that it will earn more than 600 million yuan at the box office. In this way, the global cumulative box office of the Japanese animation "What Kind of Life Do You Want to Live" will exceed 2 billion yuan, which is a very impressive achievement.
