Demon Slayer Infinity Castle Sets a US Box Office Record
The first film in the Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle trilogy has hit a remarkable milestone. According to The Numbers and Box Office Mojo, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle has earned an estimated 128.6 million US dollars in North America.
That total makes it the highest grossing non English international film of all time in the North American market, when unadjusted for inflation. It edges past 2000’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which had held the record at 128.1 million dollars for a quarter century.
The film is doing huge business worldwide as well, with estimates placing it around 648 million dollars globally. That is enough to rank it as the fifth biggest film of 2025 so far, slipping past How to Train Your Dragon.
Outside Japan, it has earned roughly 336 million dollars in the markets handled by Crunchyroll and Sony, and it now sits among the top ten highest earning films ever given an R rating.
By late September it had already sold more than 67 million tickets worldwide, including nearly 9 million in the United States alone, underlining just how broad its appeal has become.
My take: Numbers like these would have been unthinkable for an anime film not long ago, and it is genuinely thrilling to see Demon Slayer rewrite the record books. The whole medium feels like it is having a real moment.
