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#3,201 All-time worldwide
#118 2016 releases

Movie profile

The Age of Shadows

2016 · 140 min · Harbin

Action Thriller History
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $53.2M
Budget $9.6M
Gross minus budget $43.5M
ROI 5.53x

Domestic gross

$21.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$31.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$6.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Age of Shadows 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 #3,201 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2016 releases #118 Release-year chart position of 247 titles Ranked against movies released in 2016. Primary genre #1,126 Action of 2,939 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.

#3,198 Arachnophobia 1990 · $53.2M #3,199 Pitch Black 2000 · $53.2M #3,200 Police Story 4: First Strike 1996 · $53.2M #3,202 Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor 2013 · $53.1M #3,203 One Piece Film: Strong World 2009 · $53.0M #3,203 Xuxa Só Para Baixinhos 2000 · $53.0M

Quick answer

How did The Age of Shadows (2016) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Age of Shadows (2016) earned a reported $53.2M worldwide against a reported $9.6M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $43.5M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 5.53x. In this database it currently ranks #3,201 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #118 among 2016 releases.

Worldwide gross
$53,165,427
Budget
$9,620,000
Gross minus budget
$43,545,427
ROI
5.53x
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

Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters trying to bring in explosives from Shanghai to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and Japanese agents trying to stop them.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Sep 7, 2016
Production
Harbin, Warner Bros. Korea, Dark Circle Pictures
Countries
KR

Related indexes

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2016, The Age of Shadows is positioned in this dataset as a Action, Thriller, History title from Harbin. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $53.2M, reported production budget is $9.6M, gross-minus-budget is $43.5M, ROI is 5.53x. For comparison, it currently sits #3,201 all-time in the current chart set and #118 among 2016 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.