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#5,472 All-time worldwide
#164 2008 releases

Movie profile

K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces

2008 · 137 min · Nippon Television Network Corporation

Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $21.4M
Budget
Gross minus budget
ROI

Domestic gross

$8.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$12.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces ranks

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Quick answer

How did K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces (2008) perform at the box office?

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K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces (2008) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $21.4M. In this database it currently ranks #5,472 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #164 among 2008 releases.

Worldwide gross
$21,443,265
Budget
Not available
Gross minus budget
Not available
ROI
Not available
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

In an alternate version of 1949 Japan in which World War II never happened, the Japanese capital of Teito is home to both an ultra rich upper class and the dirt poor masses. The city is thrown into a state of panic when a phantom thief called “The Kaijin (Fiend) with 20 Faces” (K-20 for short) begins to use his mysterious abilities to steal from the rich and give to the poor. One day a circus acrobat named Heikichi Endo (Takeshi Kaneshiro) is framed for K-20’s crimes and becomes determined to clear his name. He teams up with K-20’s next target, a wealthy duchess named Yoko Hashiba (Takako Matsu) and her detective fiancé (Toru Nakamura), to take K-20 down once and for all.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Dec 20, 2008
Production
Nippon Television Network Corporation, Sapporo Television Broadcasting Company, Miyagi Television Broadcasting
Countries
JP

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2008, K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces is positioned in this dataset as a Action, Adventure, Crime title from Nippon Television Network Corporation. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $21.4M. For comparison, it currently sits #5,472 all-time in the current chart set and #164 among 2008 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.