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Jujutsu Kaisen Compilation Film With Season 3 Preview Opens in the Philippines on December 3
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Medialink Entertainment announced last Friday that it will open Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution -Shibuya Incident x The Culling Game Begins, the compilation film of the Jujutsu Kaisen anime featuring the second season's "Shibuya Incident" along with the first two episodes of the third season, in SM Cinema theaters in the Philippines on December 3.
The film, also known as Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution in the United States, opened in Japan on November 7. The film ranked at #1 in the Japanese box office in its opening weekend. The film sold 417,700 tickets and earned 639,785,800 yen (about US$4.13 million) in its first three days.
Kōji Yusa voices the character Naoya Zen'in in the film.
The third season will premiere in Japan on January 8.
The cast for the third season includes:
- Junya Enoki as Yuji Itadori
- Yūma Uchida as Megumi Fushiguro
- Daisuke Namikawa as Choso
- Megumi Ogata as Yuta Okkotsu
Shōta Goshozono (JUJUTSU KAISEN: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death – The Movie, Ranking of Kings) returns to direct the series at MAPPA. Hiroshi Seko (Ajin, DAN DA DAN) is overseeing and writing the series scripts. Animation directors Yosuke Yajima and Hiromi Niwa return, but this time to design the characters. Yoshimasa Terui (Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX, Hi Score Girl) will compose the music for the season.
Other staff members include:
- Assistant Director: Yōsuke Takada
- Art Director: Junichi Higashi
- Color Key Artist: Eiko Matsushima
- CG Producer: Yusuke Tannawa
- 3D CG Director: Daisuke Ishikawa (Monster's Egg)
- Compositing Director of Photography: Teppei Ito
- Editor: Keisuke Yanagi
- Music Producer: Yoshiki Kobayashi
- Sound Director: Yasunori Ebina
- Sound Production: dugout
The first Jujutsu Kaisen television anime season premiered in October 2020, and it had 24 episodes. Ani-One Asia streamed the anime. The Jujutsu Kaisen 0 prequel anime film opened in Japan in December 2021. MediaLink screened the film in various Southeast Asian territories.
The anime's second season premiered in July 2023 and aired for two cours (quarters of a year) for a continuous half-year run. The anime adapted both the "Hidden Inventory / Premature Death" ("Kaigyoku/Gyokusetsu") arc and the "Shibuya Incident" arc of the manga. Medialink Entertainment's Ani-One Asia service streamed the anime as it aired in Japan.
