Sony Pictures announced during their CinemaCon panel in Las Vegas today that the company has acquired worldwide theatrical rights, excluding Japan, for the upcoming Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc and will release the movie in the United States starting October 29, 2025. Other releases in 80+ countries are scheduled to begin from September 24, 2025.
The series previously announced during AnimeJapan 2025 that the movie will open on September 19 in Japan.
Tatsuya Yoshihara, who previously directed the fourth and tenth episodes of the TV anime series and directed much of the Black Clover TV anime, directs the upcoming movie. Hiroshi Seko returns to write the script along with Kazutaka Sugiyama as Character Designer, all at MAPPA. Souta Yamazaki and Shun work as the Sub Character Designer, with Sota Shigetsugu as Action Animation Director and Shoichi as the Main Animator. Riki Matsuura will design the devils alongside Look Back director Kiyotaka Oshiyama.
The Chainsaw Man TV anime, based on the manga of the same name by Tatsuki Fujimoto, premiered in Japan in October 2022. Crunchyroll currently streams the series and 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.
Source: Sony Pictures X (formerly Twitter), Press Release
