Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba -To the Hashira Training-

"The roar of victory."

2024 1h 43m JA

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Synopsis

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Tanjiro undergoes rigorous training with the Stone Hashira, Himejima, in his quest to become a Hashira. Meanwhile, Muzan continues to search for Nezuko and Ubuyashiki. A recap of Kimetsu no Yaiba episodes 55–56, with new footage and special end credits.

“The roar of victory.”

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Cast

Natsuki Hanae
Tanjiro Kamado (voice)
Akari Kito
Nezuko Kamado (voice)
Hiro Shimono
Zenitsu Agatsuma (voice)
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka
Inosuke Hashibira (voice)
Tomokazu Sugita
Gyomei Himejima (voice)
Kenichi Suzumura
Obanai Iguro (voice)
Kana Hanazawa
Mitsuri Kanroji (voice)
Saori Hayami
Shinobu Kocho (voice)

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Haruo Sotozaki
Writers: Koyoharu Gotouge
Languages: Japanese
Countries: Japan

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MONEY

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Shot for just $0.2M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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MONEY

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Grossed $44M — a 221.8× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.

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ERA

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Released 2 years ago.

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4 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Compilation) Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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WORLD

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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ERA

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Directed by Haruo Sotozaki, shot by Yuichi Terao. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Go Shiina. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Manabu Kamino shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Haruo Sotozaki directs. Yuichi Terao behind the camera. Go Shiina scores. Manabu Kamino cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in Japan. Dialogue in Japanese.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Shot for just $0.2M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
2Grossed $44M — a 221.8× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.
3Released 2 years ago.
4Part of the "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Compilation) Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
6Directed by Haruo Sotozaki, shot by Yuichi Terao. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
7Original score by Go Shiina. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
8Editor Manabu Kamino shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
9Natsuki Hanae and Akari Kito and Hiro Shimono carry the top of the cast.
10Marketing tagline: "The roar of victory.".
11IMDB entry: tt30395619 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
12Classified under 8 themes, including "compilation", "based on manga", "demon", "edited from tv series".

The technical file

Cinematography: Yuichi Terao
Original score: Go Shiina
Editing: Manabu Kamino
Runtime: 103 min · 1h 43m
Status: Released
Budget: $200,000
Box office: $44,354,825
Return: 22177% of budget
Original language: JA
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba -To the Hashira Training- (2024)
Metacritic: 61/100
IMDB rating: 7.2/10 · 8,775 votes
MPAA: R

Part of

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Compilation) Collection

A compilation film series of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba

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What people are saying

CinemaSerf2024-03-02
★ 6/10
Now it's probably my fault, but I should have remembered after watching "Swordsmith Village" last March that this isn't a film at all, but the tail episode of a series (I hadn't seen) used to introduce the first episode of a new season (which I won't watch either) and so it didn't really make much sense. The ongoing training of "Tanjiro" as he seeks to become Hashira is mixed in with the continuing search for "Nezuko" and "Ubuyashiki" by the increasingly frustrated "Muzan". As with any serialisation, each episode is just a conduit to the next, so this film delivers very little by way of plot development. A tiny bit of closure is soon subsumed into an whole new set of challenges that will beset them as the next slew of episodes follow. Sadly, that means there's precious little story for us to get our teeth into and so we are really just left with some stylish and accomplished animation that we have all seen many, many, times before. As with last time, they didn't even bother to sew the episodes together properly, we get a credit roller amidst the thing. There are loads of interesting characters here but this film relies way too heavily on your having followed the strand elsewhere. As a stand alone piece of cinema, it's watchable, but pretty meaningless.

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