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#10,547 All-time worldwide
#178 1993 releases

Movie profile

Madadayo

1993 · 134 min · Tokuma Shoten

Drama Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $1.9M
Budget $8.0M
Gross minus budget -$6.1M
ROI 0.24x

Domestic gross

$950,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$950,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$171,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Madadayo ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #10,547 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1993 releases #178 Release-year chart position of 249 titles Ranked against movies released in 1993. Primary genre #4,611 Drama of 5,859 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

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Quick answer

How did Madadayo (1993) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Madadayo (1993) earned a reported $1.9M worldwide against a reported $8.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$6.1M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.24x. In this database it currently ranks #10,547 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #178 among 1993 releases.

Worldwide gross
$1,900,000
Budget
$8,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$6,100,000
ROI
0.24x
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 postwar Tokyo, beloved writer-professor Hyakken Uchida retires and is buoyed through hardship by the fierce devotion of his former students, who honor him each year with a raucous “Not yet!” birthday toast. Told in warm, gently comic vignettes, Kurosawa’s farewell celebrates aging, friendship, and the sustaining ritual of teacher and pupils refusing to say goodbye.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Apr 17, 1993
Production
Tokuma Shoten, dentsu Music and Entertainment, Kurosawa Production
Countries
JP

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyTokuma Shoten Release year chart1993 box office Genre chartDrama Genre chartComedy

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1993, Madadayo is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Comedy title from Tokuma Shoten. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $1.9M, reported production budget is $8.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$6.1M, ROI is 0.24x. For comparison, it currently sits #10,547 all-time in the current chart set and #178 among 1993 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.