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#7,238 All-time worldwide
#126 1999 releases

Movie profile

My Neighbors the Yamadas

1999 · 104 min · Studio Ghibli

Animation Comedy Family
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $11.9M
Budget $15.3M
Gross minus budget -$3.4M
ROI 0.78x

Domestic gross

$5.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$6.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where My Neighbors the Yamadas 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 #7,238 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1999 releases #126 Release-year chart position of 249 titles Ranked against movies released in 1999. Studio / company #15 Studio Ghibli of 19 titles Position inside the mapped Studio Ghibli movie set. Primary genre #664 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 My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999) perform at the box office?

High confidence

My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999) earned a reported $11.9M worldwide against a reported $15.3M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$3.4M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.78x. In this database it currently ranks #7,238 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #126 among 1999 releases.

Worldwide gross
$11,910,000
Budget
$15,270,000
Gross minus budget
-$3,360,000
ROI
0.78x
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

The Yamadas are a typical middle class Japanese family in urban Tokyo and this film shows us a variety of episodes of their lives. With tales that range from the humorous to the heartbreaking, we see this family cope with life's little conflicts, problems, and joys in their own way.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jul 17, 1999
Production
Studio Ghibli, Nippon Television Network Corporation, Tokuma Shoten
Countries
JP

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Studio / production companyStudio Ghibli Release year chart1999 box office Genre chartAnimation Genre chartComedy Genre chartFamily

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1999, My Neighbors the Yamadas is positioned in this dataset as a Animation, Comedy, Family title from Studio Ghibli. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $11.9M, reported production budget is $15.3M, gross-minus-budget is -$3.4M, ROI is 0.78x. For comparison, it currently sits #7,238 all-time in the current chart set and #126 among 1999 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.