Japan Box Office for How Do You Live? (君たちはどう生きるか) (2023)

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Kimitachi wa dô ikiru ka (君たちはどう生きるか)
Theatrical Performance (US$)
Japan Box Office $56,175,911Details
Worldwide Box Office $293,187,613Details
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Synopsis

After losing his mother during the war, young Mahito moves to his family’s estate in the countryside. There, a series of mysterious events lead him to a secluded and ancient tower, home to a mischievous gray heron. When Mahito’s new stepmother disappears, he follows the gray heron into the tower, and enters a fantastic world shared by the living and the dead. As he embarks on an epic journey with the heron as his guide, Mahito must uncover the secrets of this world, and the truth about himself.

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Movie Details

Japan Releases: July 14th, 2023 (Limited), released as How Do You Live? (君たちはどう生きるか)
Video Release: June 25th, 2024 by Disney Presents Studio Ghibli
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some violent content/bloody images and smoking.
(Rating bulletin 2805 (cert #54691), 10/18/2023)
Running Time: 125 minutes
Keywords: Family Adventure, 1940s, Young Child Dealing with the Death of a Parent, Alternative Dimensions / Parallel universe, Anime
Source:Original Screenplay
Genre:Adventure
Production Method:Hand Animation
Creative Type:Kids Fiction
Production/Financing Companies: Studio Ghibli, GKIDS
Production Countries: Japan
Languages: Japanese

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The Boy and the Heron

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Because some of our sources provide box office data in their local currency, while we use USD in the graph above and table below, exchange rate fluctuations can have effect on the data causing stronger increases or even decreases of the cumulative box office.

Weekend Box Office Performance

DateRankGross% ChangeScreensPer ScreenTotal GrossWeek
2023/07/21 - $5,862,209   0     $25,541,614 2
2023/07/28 - $3,984,863 -32% 0     $33,248,189 3
2023/08/04 - $2,743,719 -31% 0     $38,658,002 4
2023/08/11 - $3,064,944 +12% 0     $43,014,933 5
2023/08/18 - $2,109,028 -31% 0     $48,028,398 6
2023/08/25 - $1,478,508 -30% 0     $50,629,584 7
2023/09/01 - $1,123,184 -24% 0     $52,908,414 8
2023/09/08 - $786,318 -30% 0     $53,830,401 9
2023/09/15 - $561,040 -29% 0     $54,960,950 10
2023/09/22 - $386,192 -31% 0     $55,627,856 11
2023/09/29 - $280,360 -27% 0     $55,790,864 12
2023/10/06 - $206,512 -26% 0     $56,175,911 13

Box Office Summary Per Territory

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Territory Release
Date		 Opening
Weekend		 Opening
Weekend
Screens		 Maximum
Screens		 Theatrical
Engagements		 Total
Box Office		 Report
Date
Australia 12/7/2023 $778,043 210 211 1123 $3,503,272 10/7/2024
Brazil 2/22/2024 00$0
China 4/3/2024 $34,269,342 0 0 0 $110,970,509 9/2/2024
Croatia 3/14/2024 $20,148 22 22 69 $46,898 4/19/2024
Czech Republic 11/23/2023 $80,919 64 64 283 $299,359 1/30/2024
Finland 11/17/2023 $193,351 73 78 554 $1,191,400 2/9/2024
France 11/1/2023 00$0
Germany 1/4/2024 00$0
Hong Kong 12/14/2023 00$0
Italy 1/1/2024 $2,115,170 0 0 0 $7,514,921 3/18/2024
Japan 7/14/2023 $0 0 0 0 $56,175,911 12/2/2023
Latvia 12/16/2023 00$0
Lebanon 12/14/2023 00$0
Mexico 12/28/2023 $1,396,466 0 0 0 $3,657,397 1/24/2024
Netherlands 12/29/2023 $0 0 103 447 $1,550,671 2/13/2024
New Zealand 12/7/2023 $131,186 57 57 296 $454,869 4/29/2024
North America 12/8/2023 $13,011,722 2,205 2,325 11,055 $46,832,867
Philippines 1/8/2024 00$0
Poland 1/19/2024 00$0
Portugal 11/9/2023 $65,595 50 50 223 $244,657 4/9/2024
Romania 12/15/2023 $49,240 69 69 207 $148,634 3/13/2024
Russia (CIS) 12/7/2023 $1,041,530 1203 1203 4662 $4,855,216 2/21/2024
Slovakia 1/18/2024 $25,811 42 42 77 $74,377 7/30/2024
South Korea 10/25/2023 $4,540,792 1728 1728 5718 $14,899,938 3/13/2024
Spain 10/27/2023 $322,150 85 151 714 $1,590,797 1/25/2024
Turkey 10/27/2023 $36,910 32 32 249 $207,156 8/1/2024
United Kingdom 12/26/2023 $2,090,821 159 350 1113 $6,465,517 3/4/2024
 
Rest of World $31,392,482
 
Worldwide Total$293,187,613 10/7/2024

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Leading Cast

Christian Bale    Shoichi Maki

Supporting Cast

Dave Bautista    The Parakeet King
Gemma Chan    Natsuko
Willem Dafoe    Noble Pelican
Karen Fukuhara    Lady Himi
Mark Hamill    Granduncle
Robert Pattinson    The Gray Heron
Florence Pugh    Kiriko

For a description of the different acting role types we use to categorize acting perfomances, see our Glossary.

Production and Technical Credits

Hayao Miyazaki    Director
Hayao Miyazaki    Screenwriter