Resident Evil, Zach Cregger’s reboot of the Capcom game series, has sold more than 1m cinema tickets in Japan. Over its first 17 days, up to Sunday 25 October, it drew 1,033,027 admissions and grossed ¥1,766,489,750 ($11.2m), according to figures published on Monday 26 October alongside a new promotion from its distributor, Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan. The film is released there under the game’s Japanese name, Biohazard.
Key facts
- Resident Evil (Sony Pictures/Constantin Film): 1,033,027 admissions and ¥1.77bn ($11.2m) in Japan in 17 days to 25 October
- It opened at No. 1 on the 9–11 October weekend with 356,036 admissions and ¥626.6m ($4.0m)
- Third weekend, 23–25 October: fifth place, down from second, per Kogyo Tsushin
- Worldwide gross of $364.5m, with $151.5m from North America, as of 23 October per The Numbers
Japan is where the Biohazard games were created, at Osaka’s Capcom, and the distributor’s announcements have billed the release as the series coming home. The film opened there on Friday 9 October, three weeks after its North American release, and went straight to the top of the weekend chart, ahead of local and Hollywood titles. By the end of the four-day holiday weekend on 12 October it had reached 470,112 admissions and ¥812.9m ($5.1m), eiga.com reported at the time.
How the run has held
The 17-day figure means the film has sold about 563,000 tickets and taken roughly ¥954m ($6.0m) since that opening holiday. That is more than it managed in its first four days, spread across a much longer stretch. The average ticket works out at about ¥1,710.
It slipped to second in its second weekend, 16–18 October, behind the Toei drama Mama ga Mou Kono Sekai ni Inakute mo, which returned to No. 1. In the 23–25 October frame it fell to fifth. The Toei film stayed at No. 1 in its fourth weekend with 280,000 admissions and has now passed ¥2.9bn ($18.4m). Chiikawa the Movie, in its 14th week, rose to second with 185,000 admissions, helped by a seventh round of ticket gifts, and has passed ¥18.4bn ($116.5m). Toho’s new romance Uruwashi no Yoi no Tsuki opened fourth. Sony’s second title in the chart, Takashi Miike’s Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo, opened seventh.
The 1m figure came with the announcement of a Halloween promotion: from 31 October, cinemas showing the film will give each ticket holder an A6 sticker, one per visit and while stocks last. Gifts of this kind are a standard tool for lifting later-week attendance in Japan; Chiikawa’s seventh round is the latest example.
Where Japan sits in the global run
North America remains the film’s largest market. It had taken $151.5m there by 23 October, according to The Numbers, the highest domestic total for any live-action Resident Evil film. Its worldwide total of $364.5m on the same date already places it above Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, which had held the franchise’s global record.
China is the other large contributor. As we reported on Monday, the film held No. 1 in mainland China for a third weekend and has taken $64.8m there since 5 October. Japan’s $11.2m is smaller, with the film still in the top five after three weekends.
Cregger, who also directed Barbarian and Weapons, co-wrote the script with Shay Hatten. Austin Abrams plays Bryan, an ordinary courier sent to deliver a medical shipment to Raccoon City, and the cast also includes Zach Cherry, Kali Reis and Paul Walter Hauser. Constantin Film, the German company behind the earlier Milla Jovovich films, is again a producing partner.
What comes next
The film faces new competition this week. Warner Bros.’ Clayface, which opened at No. 1 in North America last weekend, arrives in Japanese cinemas, as does Ryuji, a remake of the 1983 yakuza film starring Yuya Yagira. Sony’s sticker giveaway then starts on Saturday 31 October, Halloween itself.
For how Clayface performed in its first weekend, see our North American box office report. For another film given a new title for its Japanese release, see how The World of Love was renamed; more charts are in our box office section.
All figures are in yen as issued; dollar conversions use ¥158 to $1, the rate applied in the Japanese reports.
Sources
- Oricon News (17-day figures and sticker giveaway, 26 October 2026)
- Kogyo Tsushin, weekend ranking 23–25 October 2026
- Kogyo Tsushin, October 2026 weekend rankings
- Cinema Today (weekend chart, 26 October 2026)
- eiga.com (opening figures, 13 October 2026)
- eiga.com (weekend chart, 26 October 2026)
- Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan, official film site