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#6,374 All-time worldwide
#166 2005 releases

Movie profile

The Great Yokai War

2005 · 124 min · Kadokawa

Comedy Fantasy Action
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $15.8M
Budget $12.1M
Gross minus budget $3.6M
ROI 1.30x

Domestic gross

$6.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$9.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Great Yokai War 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 #6,374 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2005 releases #166 Release-year chart position of 247 titles Ranked against movies released in 2005. Studio / company #3 Kadokawa of 7 titles Position inside the mapped Kadokawa movie set. Primary genre #2,476 Comedy of 4,840 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 Great Yokai War (2005) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Great Yokai War (2005) earned a reported $15.8M worldwide against a reported $12.1M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $3.6M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.30x. In this database it currently ranks #6,374 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #166 among 2005 releases.

Worldwide gross
$15,787,492
Budget
$12,148,397
Gross minus budget
$3,639,095
ROI
1.30x
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

A young boy with a troubled home life becomes "chosen," and he stumbles into the middle of a great war of yōkai (a class of mythological creatures), where he meets a group of friendly yōkai who become his companions through his journey. Now he must fight to protect his friends and free the world of the yōkai from oppression.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Aug 6, 2005
Production
KADOKAWA, Japan Film Fund, Nippon Television Network Corporation
Countries
JP

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2005, The Great Yokai War is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Fantasy, Action title from KADOKAWA. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $15.8M, reported production budget is $12.1M, gross-minus-budget is $3.6M, ROI is 1.30x. For comparison, it currently sits #6,374 all-time in the current chart set and #166 among 2005 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.