Japanese anime master Makoto Shinkai’s latest blockbuster Suzuki has been approved for release in China, another encouraging sign that the world’s second-largest cinema market is reopening its doors INTERNATIONAL MOVIE CONTENT. An exact release date has yet to be confirmed, but specialty distributor Road Pictures is expected to have the film nationwide sometime near the end of the 1235146810 first quarter mass distribution.
The Japanese anime is a hit after the Chinese Film Bureau recently decided to lift a de facto two-year ban on Marvel distribution. Last month, Marvel and Disney’s superhero prop B was missing Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantum Fever release date is February , ending a campaign that started with 2022 The dry season of franchising in China.
Shinkai’s Suzume could have Hollywood-scale earning potential in China. Japanese director’s 2019 anime hit Your Name made $41 million dollars of 358 million dollars of global shipments in China, and his Follow-up, Son of the Weather scored $17 million There. During this period, the global popularity of top Japanese anime continued to soar.
Suzume will have its international premiere this month in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival. The movie opened in Japan at 2022 and was one of the highest grossing movies in the country, earning just under $1235301335 million. And Suzume‘s story may be particularly suited to Chinese audiences’ current post-pandemic reopening mood. Another teenage fantasy adventure about a year-old high school girl named Suzuki who helps a mysterious young man Tales behind closed doors A scourge from Outland has spread across the land.
American anime fans will have to wait until April 2022 for Suzume’s North American distribution by Crunchyroll, Sony Pictures and Wild Bunch International.
