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Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc Opens in India on September 26

Sony Pictures India announced on Monday that it will release Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc, the film based on the Reze Arc of Tatsuki Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man manga, in Indian theaters with Japanese and Hindi audio tracks on September 26. The company's YouTube channel began streaming a Hindi-dubbed trailer on the same day.

The film opened in Japan on Friday. The film had midnight screenings in 12 theaters across Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, and Hokkaido in Japan. The film also has MX4D, 4DX, and Dolby Cinema screenings. Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has acquired worldwide theatrical rights the film.

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 Key Artist: Naomi Nakano
• Color Script: Riku
• 3D CG Director: Daiki Watanabe, Masahiro Tamai
• Compositing Director of Photography: Teppei Ito
• Editor: Masato Yoshitake
• Distribution: TOHO
• Production: MAPPA

Kenshi Yonezu and Hikaru Utada are performing the ending theme song "JANE DOE." Kenshi Yonezu is also performing the film's theme song "IRIS OUT." Maximum The Hormone's "Hawatari Nioku Centi" (2-Hundred-Million-Centimeter-Long-Blades) appears as an insert song in the film. The film includes the "Hawatari Nioku Centi (Zentai Suitei 70% Kaikin edit)" (Estimated 70% Unredacted Edit) version of the song. The earlier television anime previously featured a shorter, 90-second version of the track as an ending song for episode 3 of the series. The band notes they did not release the longer version of the song until now, in part due to the second half of the lyrics referencing the character Reze.

Sources: Sony Pictures India's X/Twitter account and YouTube channel