The newest film by Hayao Miyazaki, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, has topped ¥10 billion in box office receipts in Japan, roughly $93 million.   This is the first Japanese film to pass that mark since Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle, in 2004.  Ponyo reached ¥10 billion two days faster than Howl’s. 

The film will be shown at the Venice Film Festival next week, and will be released in the U.S. at a time to be announced (see “New Miyazaki Film to Venice”).