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Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc Opens in the U.S. on October 29

Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) announced on Monday that it has acquired worldwide theatrical rights to Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc, the film based on the Reze Arc of Tatsuki Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man manga. SPE will open the film in theaters in the United States on October 29, and will also open the film earlier in more than 80 countries on September 24.

The film will open in Japan on September 19.

Reina Ueda plays Reze in the film.

MAPPA describes the film's story:

Denji became “Chainsaw Man”, a boy with a devil's heart, and is now part of Special Division 4's devil hunters. After a date with Makima, the woman of his dreams, Denji takes shelter from the rain. There he meets Reze, a girl who works in a café.

The film's staff includes:

• Director: Tatsuya Yoshihara (Chainsaw Man TV's storyboarder, key animator, episode director)
• Screenwriter: Hiroshi Seko (returning from TV anime)
• Character Designer: Kazutaka Sugiyama (returning from TV anime)
• Assistant Director: Masato Nakazono (storyboarder and chief episode director for TV anime)
• Sub Character Designer: Sota Yamazaki, Shun (chief animation directors for TV anime)
• Main Animator: Shōichi (animation director from TV anime)
• Music: kensuke ushio (returning from TV anime)
• Action Animation Director: Sōta Shigetsugu
• Devil Designer: Riki Matsuura, Kiyotaka Oshiyama
• Costume Designer: Aya Yamamoto
• Art Director: Yūsuke Takeda
• Color Designer: Naomi Nakano
• Color Script: Riku
• 3DCG Director: Daiki Watanabe, Masahiro Tamai
• Compositing Director: Teppei Ito
• Editor: Masato Yoshitake
• Distribution: TOHO
• Production: MAPPA

The television anime series premiered on TV Tokyo and five other affiliated channels, as well as on Amazon Prime Video in October 2022. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime in over 200 countries and territories around the world.

Crunchyroll describes the story:

Denji is a teenage boy living with a Chainsaw Devil named Pochita. Due to the debt his father left behind, he has been living a rock-bottom life while repaying his debt by harvesting devil corpses with Pochita.

One day, Denji is betrayed and killed. As his consciousness fades, he makes a contract with Pochita and gets revived as "Chainsaw Man"--a man with a devil's heart.

Fujimoto (Fire Punch) debuted the Chainsaw Man manga in Weekly Shonen Jump in December 2018 and ended its "first part," the "Kōan" (Public Safety) arc, in December 2020. The manga's second part, titled "Gakkō-hen" (School Arc), started on Shueisha's Shonen Jump+ service in July 2022. The manga won the Best Manga award at The Harvey Awards for three consecutive years.

The manga inspired a stage play adaptation that ran in Tokyo and Kyoto in September to October 2023.

Source: Email correspondence