Download Film Woo Chi The Demon Slayer Movie
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Kagaya Ubuyashiki, Head of the Demon Slayer Corps, visits a graveyard where the deceased Demon Slayer warriors are buried with the help of his wife Amane. Lamenting about those who gave their lives in the continuous war against demon king Muzan Kibutsuji and his army, he declares that the human spirit will always rise to the challenge.
Tanjiro Kamado, his demonic younger sister Nezuko, and his friends Zenitsu Agatsuma and Inosuke Hashibira board the Mugen Train[N 1] to assist the Flame Hashira Kyojuro Rengoku in his mission to hunt for a demon that has caused 40 people to go missing. Soon after boarding, they are attacked by two demons which Kyojuro quickly kills. Directly after, all of them except for Nezuko fall into a deep sleep, the work of Enmu, Lower One of the Twelve Kizuki.
Enmu instructs four passengers, all suffering from severe insomnia, to enter the Demon Slayers' dreams and destroy their spiritual cores to cripple them. In exchange, Enmu will grant them a peaceful sleep. During their sleep, the Demon Slayers have idealistic dreams; Tanjiro reunites with his deceased family, Kyojuro reminisces on his past with his younger brother Senjuro, and their alcoholic father Shinjuro. Zenitsu envisions a life with Nezuko, and Inosuke imagines himself as a leader. All of the passengers fail to destroy their spiritual cores. Tanjiro, thanks to Nezuko's outside help, realizes that he is dreaming, tearfully abandons his family and tries to wake up, succeeding after a vision of his father instructed him to kill himself in the dream.
At her brother's instructions, Nezuko uses her Blood Demon Art, pyrokinesis, to sever the intruders' connection to the others, awakening the passengers. Angered at being refused their own dreams, they attack Tanjiro, who knocks them all out except for his intruder, who had refused Enmu's orders to harm him despite his own suffering from tuberculosis. While Nezuko awakens the others, Tanjiro confronts Enmu on top of the train and decapitates him in the ensuing battle. However, Enmu reveals that he fused himself with the train, preparing to devour all of the passengers within.
With everyone now awake, Kyojuro instructs Inosuke and Tanjiro to look for Enmu's neck while he, Nezuko, and Zenitsu stay behind to protect the other passengers. Tanjiro and Inosuke find Enmu's neckbone in the locomotive but are caught off guard by its defenses, including a Blood Demon Art which constantly puts them to sleep. The conductor, also under the control of Enmu, ends up stabbing Tanjiro in the chaos. With Inosuke, Tanjiro is able to expose and destroy Enmu's neckbone, killing him and derailing the train. As Tanjiro attempts to recover from his wounds, Kyojuro arrives to help teach him how to stabilize them with his breathing techniques.
Suddenly, they are attacked by Upper Three of the Twelve Kizuki, Akaza, who tries to persuade Kyojuro to turn into a demon and become immortal, after sensing his already immense power. Kyojuro vehemently refuses, and he and Akaza commence a fight to the death, with Tanjiro and Inosuke unable to assist him. Despite his perseverance, Kyojuro is unable to match Akaza's regenerative abilities. After Kyojuro attempts his most powerful move as a last resort, Akaza manages to fatally injure him by impaling his solar plexus. Kyojuro attempts to keep him at bay for long enough for the sun to kill him, but Akaza breaks free, breaking Kyojuro's sword in the process, and escapes into the adjacent forest.
In a last-ditch effort to stop him, an enraged Tanjiro throws his sword at Akaza, impaling the demon's chest. Akaza escapes nonetheless as Tanjiro breaks down, calling him a coward. Kyojuro encourages Tanjiro and his friends to continue on their paths and never give up before succumbing to his injuries and reuniting with his mother in the afterlife. While Tanjiro and his friends mourn Kyojuro's death, the remaining Hashiras receive the news and Kagaya appreciates him for not letting a single passenger or comrade die in his presence, stating that he will be glad to reunite with him when he finally passes.
Yūma Takahashi, the producer of the anime series, indicated a desire to continue production of the series with the Ufotable Production Team. The sequel project was greenlit following the success of the television series. A film was determined to be the best format for the "Mugen Train" arc due to the arc's shorter content and dramatic pacing.[7] The main cast was made aware of the film project midway through the first season of the television series.[8] The main production staff from the anime television series, as well as the cast, were carried over into the film's production. Haruo Sotozaki served as director, with Akira Matsushima and Manabu Kamino serving as animator and editor of the film, respectively. The film was announced on September 28, 2019, immediately following the airing of the anime series' season finale.[9]
The film was released theatrically in Japan on October 16, 2020.[10] Because other major releases had been delayed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of available screens was higher than usual.[11] The film opened in 403 cinemas total, including all 38 IMAX cinemas within the country.[12] The film had a very staggered international release, being released from as early as October 30, 2020, in Taiwan,[13] to as late as August 13, 2021, in India.[14] The theatrical release in China was delayed when a controversy surrounding the film Monster Hunter led the Chinese censors to review some foreign films a second time.[15]
The film was released on Blu-ray and DVD in Japan on June 16, 2021;[16] it sold over 800,000 units in its first day and over 1 million units in three days.[17] In North America, the film was released digitally on June 22, 2021; pre-orders began on April 26, 2021.[18] On April 26, 2021, two months before its official release, the film was accidentally made available for purchase on the PlayStation Store for a few hours before being removed, resulting in leaked copies being distributed across the Internet.[19][20] Upon its video-on-demand (VOD) release in North America, the film debuted at number one on the Vudu, Google Play and YouTube charts.[21] A novel adaptation was released on October 16, 2020.[22]
The first part of the second season of the anime television series, subtitled Mugen Train Arc, is an extended and recompiled version of the film that ran for a total of 7 episodes. The first episode of the part is an entirely new episode that focuses on what Kyojuro did immediately before the events of the film, while the remaining 6 episodes are recompiled cuts of the film with several slight edits performed on them to account for its episodic format. It was broadcast in Japan from October 10 to November 28, 2021.[23]
The worldwide box office total for Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train is over $507 million from more than 41 million tickets sold,[1][24] making it the highest-grossing film of 2020 as well as the highest-grossing anime and Japanese film of all time.[25][26] It was the first time in the history of cinema that a non-Hollywood production topped the annual worldwide box office.[27][28] It also became the highest-grossing R-rated animated film of all time, surpassing Sausage Party.[29]
Prior to its release in Japan, the film set monthly sales records for advance tickets sold for two consecutive months in September and October 2020.[30] Upon release, it set several box office records including highest opening weekend gross (4.6 billion, $44 million)[31][32] and fastest to gross 10 billion (ten days),[33] 20 billion (24 days),[34] and 30 billion (59 days).[35] It also set the record for the highest-grossing IMAX release in Japan with $25 million, surpassing the $13 million record previously set by Bohemian Rhapsody in 2018.[36][37] The film became the first film to top the Japanese box office charts for ten consecutive weekends since the charts began publication in 2004,[38] and ultimately remained in the top 10 for 32 weeks,[39] the second-highest number of consecutive weeks in the Japanese charts behind Titanic's 40 weeks in the late 1990s.[40][41] It became the highest-grossing film of all time in Japan in 73 days at a gross of 32.48 billion, surpassing Spirited Away, which had held the record for 19 years.[42] After 220 days of release, it became the first film in the history of Japanese cinema to gross 40 billion.[43]
Outside of Japan, its highest gross in a single market was in the United States and Canada, where it was released on April 23, 2021, and grossed US$47.7 million to become the second-highest-grossing anime film of all time in the market, after Pokmon: The First Movie which grossed US$85.7 million.[44][45][46] Its North American opening weekend gross of $19.5 million set the record as the biggest opening for any foreign-language film released in North America. Also its second weekend topped the box office, which first anime flim since Pokmon: The First Movie.[47][48] It became the highest-grossing animated film of all time in Taiwan by grossing NT$360 million (US$12.6 million) in 17 days after its release and went on to gross NT$634 million in total.[49][50] It also became the highest-grossing anime film in several other markets, including Singapore where it was released on November 12, 2020, and went on to gross S$2.42 million ($1.83 million),[51][52] Malaysia where it was released on March 5, 2021, and went on to gross more than RM 4.3 million to surpass One Piece: Stampede's RM 3.3 million,[53][54][55] Thailand where it surpassed the previous record held by Your Name during the first weekend and went on to gross 124 million,[56][57] and Russia where it grossed $1.7 million.[58] In Hong Kong, the film topped the box office for four consecutive weekends following its opening on November 12, 2020,[59] but its box office run came to a halt as all the cinemas in Hong Kong were shut down on December 2, 2020, amidst the outbreak of the fourth wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong;[60] cinemas did not reopen again until February 18, 2021.[61]
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