{"id":26130,"date":"2020-12-28T13:51:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T04:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/28\/demon-slayer-kills-big-name-rivals-to-become-japans-highest-grossing-film"},"modified":"2020-12-28T13:51:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T04:51:33","slug":"demon-slayer-kills-big-name-rivals-to-become-japans-highest-grossing-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26130","title":{"rendered":"Demon Slayer kills big-name rivals to become Japan&#8217;s highest grossing film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Runaway success of the story of Tanjiro \u2013 a boy who shows remarkable resilience in the face of obstacles \u2013 comes despite the coronavirus pandemic<\/p>\n<p>Not even a pandemic has been able to stop an animated film set a century ago from becoming Japan\u2019s highest-grossing movie ever, surpassing sales from Hollywood blockbusters, the Harry Potter series, and even the works of the revered Japanese animator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2016\/nov\/14\/hayao-miyazaki-studio-ghibli-boro-the-caterpillar\">Hayao Miyazaki<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since its release in mid-October, Demon Slayer has generated ticket sales of \u00a532.47bn [$313m], according to figures released on Monday by its distributors.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/28\/demon-slayer-kills-big-name-rivals-to-become-japans-highest-grossing-film\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Runaway success of the story of Tanjiro \u2013 a boy who shows remarkable resilience in the face of obstacles \u2013 comes despite the coronavirus pandemicNot even a pandemic has been able to stop an animated film set a century ago from becoming Japan\u2019s highest-&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,71,69,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-culture","category-film","category-japan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26132,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26130\/revisions\/26132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}