There is especially a lack of available worldwide box office data for Japanese films released prior to 1997.
[a] According to Nikkan Sports, the People's Daily and Eiga.com [ja], the film attained approximately 800 million viewers in China upon its initial release.
[4] However, the amount of nominal box office gross revenue (not adjusted for inflation) it generated in China at the time is not known to have been reported, so it is not included on this list.
The anime film My Neighbor Totoro (1988), for example, grossed about $1.4 billion from home video and licensed merchandise sales.
(Over ¥10 billion) Up until 1999, the Japanese box office was most commonly reported in terms of distributor rentals [ja],[71] which was equivalent to approximately half of the total gross receipts at the Japanese box office.