'Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle' dominates Korea box office as 'The Ugly' debuts strong with $2.1 million

'Demon Slayer' continues leading Korea box office for fourth weekend.

Japanese animated feature Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle maintained its dominance at the South Korean box office for a fourth consecutive weekend. According to data from the Korean Film Council’s tracking service KOBIS, the film collected $2.6 million from 330,444 admissions between Sept. 12–14. Its cumulative earnings in Korea now stand at $34.8 million. The anime is also currently the top-performing film worldwide, per Comscore figures.

Opening in second place was South Korean mystery thriller The Ugly, directed and written by Yeon Sang-ho. The film, which follows a man uncovering long-hidden secrets about his mother’s disappearance decades earlier, grossed $2.1 million from 281,924 admissions and has reached $2.4 million overall. The cast includes Park Jeong-min, Kwon Hae-hyo, Shin Hyun-been, Im Seong-jae, and Han Ji-hyun.

Brad Pitt’s racing drama F1 took third place with $415,168 from 78,063 admissions, pushing its cumulative Korean total to $38.6 million. Horror title The Conjuring: Last Rites landed fourth, earning $582,016 for a total of $2.7 million since its Sept. 3 release. Korean crime drama Murder Report, directed by Cho Young-jun, followed in fifth with $537,690, raising its total to $2.1 million.

Other titles on the chart included My Daughter is a Zombie at sixth with $237,129 (total $37.9 million), new horror entry Homecam at seventh with $287,052, and Studio Ghibli classic Princess Mononoke, which added $238,734 for a cumulative $437,239.

Rounding out the top ten, documentary The Birth of Korea 2 opened ninth with $105,638, while Chinese romance Just For Meeting You placed tenth with $93,327, lifting its total to $912,836.

The combined gross of the weekend’s top 10 films was $8.1 million, slightly below the $8.3 million recorded the previous week, KOBIS reported.