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#10,180 All-time worldwide
#235 2003 releases

Movie profile

When the Last Sword Is Drawn

2003 · 137 min · Shochiku

Action Drama History
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $2.5M
Budget $4.0M
Gross minus budget -$1.5M
ROI 0.62x

Domestic gross

$1.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$1.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$223,860

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where When the Last Sword Is Drawn 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 #10,180 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2003 releases #235 Release-year chart position of 250 titles Ranked against movies released in 2003. Studio / company #3 Shochiku of 5 titles Position inside the mapped Shochiku movie set. Primary genre #2,626 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.

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Quick answer

How did When the Last Sword Is Drawn (2003) perform at the box office?

High confidence

When the Last Sword Is Drawn (2003) earned a reported $2.5M worldwide against a reported $4.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$1.5M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.62x. In this database it currently ranks #10,180 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #235 among 2003 releases.

Worldwide gross
$2,487,338
Budget
$4,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$1,512,662
ROI
0.62x
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

Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on the the low pay he receives from his small town clan, he is forced by the love for his family to leave for the city in search of higher pay to support them.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jan 18, 2003
Production
Shochiku, TV Tokyo, TV Osaka
Countries
JP

Related indexes

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 2003, When the Last Sword Is Drawn is positioned in this dataset as a Action, Drama, History title from Shochiku. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $2.5M, reported production budget is $4.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$1.5M, ROI is 0.62x. For comparison, it currently sits #10,180 all-time in the current chart set and #235 among 2003 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.