Our Chinese mainland market is still very tolerant of Japanese animated films, and our domestic audiences also like ** Japanese films.
In recent years, Hollywood's big-budget films in the Chinese mainland market no longer have the box office appeal they used to have, and many people think that Hollywood films, like Hong Kong films, are in decline. On the other hand, Japanese animated films are still very popular in China, and every Japanese animation released in mainland theaters can eventually create a very considerable box office result.
is like "The Journey of the Bell Teeth" and "Slam Dunk", which were released in March and April last year, respectively, one got 80.7 billion yuan, and the other box office is also as high as 6600 million RMB.
and "Spirited Away", which was re-screened in mainland theaters in 2019, and the final mainland re-release box office was nearly 500 million yuan. It has grossed more than $600 million worldwide, and the film has won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Asian Film.
It can be seen that the influence of Japanese animation is really great, and in a few months we will also have a Japanese animated film "Howl's Moving Castle" that has also created excellent results.
Like Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle is an animated film produced by the famous Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, which was also shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film and the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Asian Film.
In addition to the awards, Howl's Moving Castle also had a decent box office performance, with a cumulative total global box office of 2$3.1 billion.
Howl's Moving Castle is a work that director Hayao Miyazaki is very satisfied with, it is adapted from the British fantasy writer Diana Wayne Jones's book "Magic Castle", which mainly tells the story of the girl Sophie who was cursed by the Witch of the Wilderness and turned into a 90-year-old old lady.
In China, "Howl's Moving Castle" is the audience's favorite Miyazaki animation outside of "Spirited Away", and the film's Douban score is as high as 91 point, the number of comments exceeded a million. The male protagonist Hall in the film is really handsome, the female protagonist Sophie is also really beautiful, and the composition is also really beautiful.
Now coincides with the 20th anniversary of the release of "Howl's Moving Castle", perhaps to welcome the "great moment" of the 20th anniversary, the film has just been announced to be re-screened in mainland theaters from April 30 this year.
This is definitely a good news for viewers who like Japanese animation and Hayao Miyazaki's animation.