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#8,685 All-time worldwide
#104 1988 releases

Movie profile

Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack

1988 · 120 min · Sunrise

Animation Action Science Fiction
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $7.0M
Budget —
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ROI —

Domestic gross

$3.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$4.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$903,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack 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 #8,685 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1988 releases #104 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 1988. Studio / company #12 Sunrise of 14 titles Position inside the mapped Sunrise movie set. Primary genre #774 Animation of 920 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 Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (1988) perform at the box office?

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Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (1988) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $7.0M. In this database it currently ranks #8,685 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #104 among 1988 releases.

Worldwide gross
$7,000,000
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 UC 0093, the Federation has recovered from its defeat and has created a new anti-colonial special forces unit to deal with rebel forces: Londo Bell. Elsewhere in space, Char Aznable reappears out of self-imposed hiding with a declaration that he now commands his own Neo-Zeon movement, and intends to force the emigration of Earth's inhabitants to space by bringing about an apocalypse.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Mar 12, 1988
Production
SUNRISE
Countries
JP

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Studio / production companySunrise Release year chart1988 box office Genre chartAnimation Genre chartAction Genre chartScience Fiction

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1988, Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack is positioned in this dataset as a Animation, Action, Science Fiction title from SUNRISE. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $7.0M. For comparison, it currently sits #8,685 all-time in the current chart set and #104 among 1988 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.