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#8,186 All-time worldwide
#51 1978 releases

Movie profile

The Glacier Fox

1978 · 116 min · Sanrio

Family Documentary Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $8.8M
Budget $4.5M
Gross minus budget $4.3M
ROI 1.96x

Domestic gross

$3.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$5.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Glacier Fox 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 #8,186 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1978 releases #51 Release-year chart position of 89 titles Ranked against movies released in 1978. Primary genre #1,082 Family of 1,380 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 The Glacier Fox (1978) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Glacier Fox (1978) earned a reported $8.8M worldwide against a reported $4.5M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $4.3M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.96x. In this database it currently ranks #8,186 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #51 among 1978 releases.

Worldwide gross
$8,800,000
Budget
$4,500,000
Gross minus budget
$4,300,000
ROI
1.96x
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

Director Koreyoshi Kurahara chronicles a year in the lives of Flep and Leila, two foxes living in Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island, where the freezing winters are long and the mild summers short. After Flep defeats another male fox to become Leila's lifelong partner, they mate and raise a litter of five kits. With their family complete, the group must contend with human interference in their habitat, such as chicken farms and snowmobiles, and struggle against the debilitating cold of winter. The animals experience both triumph and tragedy, as the law of this harsh land proves – only the strong survive.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jul 15, 1978
Production
Sanrio, Samuel Goldwyn Films
Countries
JP

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Studio / production companySanrio Release year chart1978 box office Genre chartFamily Genre chartDocumentary Genre chartDrama

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1978, The Glacier Fox is positioned in this dataset as a Family, Documentary, Drama title from Sanrio. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $8.8M, reported production budget is $4.5M, gross-minus-budget is $4.3M, ROI is 1.96x. For comparison, it currently sits #8,186 all-time in the current chart set and #51 among 1978 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.