Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc

"Lost Love, Flower, Chainsaw."

2025 1h 40m JA

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8.5

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8.4

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★8.5TMDB · 1,229🍅96%Rotten Tomatoes●71Metacritic★8.4IMDB · 35,800

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Synopsis

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In a brutal war between devils, hunters, and secret enemies, a mysterious girl named Reze has stepped into Denji's world, and he faces his deadliest battle yet, fueled by love in a world where survival knows no rules.

“Lost Love, Flower, Chainsaw.”

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Cast

Kikunosuke Toya
Denji (voice)
Shiori Izawa
Pochita (voice)
Tomori Kusunoki
Makima (voice)
Reina Ueda
Reze (voice)
Shogo Sakata
Aki (voice)
Fairouz Ai
Power (voice)
Karin Takahashi
Kobeni (voice)
Natsuki Hanae
Beam (voice)

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Tatsuya Yoshihara
Writers: Hiroshi Seko, Tatsuya Yoshihara, Masato Nakazono
Languages: Japanese
Countries: Japan

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MONEY

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Shot for just $4.1M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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MONEY

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Grossed $191M — a 46.7× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.

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ERA

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Released last year.

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4 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Chainsaw Man Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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CAST

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247+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Tatsuya Yoshihara, shot by Teppei Ito. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Kensuke Ushio. 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 Masato Yoshitake 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

Tatsuya Yoshihara directs. Teppei Ito behind the camera. Kensuke Ushio scores. Masato Yoshitake 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 $4.1M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
2Grossed $191M — a 46.7× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.
3Released last year.
4Part of the "Chainsaw Man Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5247+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
6Directed by Tatsuya Yoshihara, shot by Teppei Ito. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
7Original score by Kensuke Ushio. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
8Editor Masato Yoshitake shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
9Kikunosuke Toya and Shiori Izawa and Tomori Kusunoki carry the top of the cast.
10Marketing tagline: "Lost Love, Flower, Chainsaw.".
11IMDB entry: tt30472557 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
12Classified under 23 themes, including "manipulation", "gore", "sequel", "tragedy".
13Released under 23 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Teppei Ito
Original score: Kensuke Ushio
Editing: Masato Yoshitake
Costume design: Aya Yamamoto
Runtime: 100 min · 1h 40m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $4,100,000
Box office: $191,400,000
Return: 4668% of budget
Original language: JA
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc (2025)
Rotten Tomatoes: 96% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 71/100
IMDB rating: 8.4/10 · 35,800 votes
MPAA: R

Part of

Chainsaw Man Collection

Officially, Chainsaw Man The Compilation is a two-part movie, and Crunchyroll’s announcement identifies Tatsuya Yoshihara as its director, while the 2022 TV series was directed by Ryū Nakayama. Reze Arc is officially described as continuing that story, and the official Chainsaw Man site later programmed Compilation Part 1, Compilation Part 2, and Reze Arc together as a single 5 hour 13 minute overnight screening route. Fan-documented discussion around the Compilation films also points to substantial revision work under Yoshihara rather: re-recorded or more energetic voice performances, dialogue changes noted as closer to manga wording, faster fight tempo and removal of some slow pauses, changed music choices, restoration of the Gun Devil casualty information, removal of some anime-original scene material, and added Chainsaw Days animation. Taken together, that makes the Compilation films a revised theatrical retelling that leads directly into director Tatsuya Yoshihara's Reze Arc.

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Muhammad Salman2025-10-30
★ 10/10
Need me a Makima 🙏. I'm convinced MAPPA got some blackmail stuff on their employees because HOW THE FUCK did they animate these scenes cuh. And I speak for EVERYONE when I say that WE will let Reze manipulate us and take advantage of us. Imagine you clapping them crazy cheeks and right wen u boutta buss she whispers in yo ear, “BOOM!". I would die the fuck right there. 😭😭😭 Seriously tho, I did NOT expect this movie to have one of the best action sequences of the year. I need whatever the hell these MAPPA animators are smoking, because HOW TF did they animate those scenes? I didn't even care about Chainsaw Man a few days ago. But then I saw the great reviews for this movie so I decided to binge Season 1 to prepare for the movie. And now here I am thinking that this might be my favorite action movie of the year. MAN, this movie was beautiful. And it's not just the action scenes that were good, but the story it's adapting (from the manga) is also soooooo good. Don't even get me started on the music. "In The Pool" made me cry ngl. Even thinking about listening to that song is making me feel depressed and anxious. Edit: WHY THE FUCK does that song sound so depressing, just thinking about listening to that song makes my chest start feeling heavy. This has never happened to me before. FUCK. GOD I MISS HER
CinemaSerf2025-11-07
★ 7/10
Student “Denji” is already an accomplished demon hunter for the Japanese mob when they betray him and think him dead. Fortunately for him, his quick thinking and chainsaw wielding dog manages to morph together with his master thereby creating a critter with even more formidable devil slaying skills - and that is just as well because they are coming for him. Not, however, in the way he is expecting but via a much more subtle approach. That’s because the seemingly ditzy “Reze” enters his life, via a storm and a phone booth, and despite the fact that he has sworn to love “Makima”, he is soon entranced by her. Thing is, though, is she all that she seems? Now on a practical front, are chainsaws emanating from your arms and head really that useful a weapon when your opponent is as lithe and nimble as a ninja made from jelly? Well we are about to see as this action-packed animation hits the ground running and rarely pauses for breath as poor old “Denji” has to distinguish between friend and foe whilst his hormones do some independent raging of their own. It’s a stand-alone arc from the series so you don’t really miss out on much if you haven’t followed his adventures before, and there are all sorts of colourful mystical creatures for him to combat without the often used game-level look to these films. It has a defined and structured plot, with much more of a beginning and an end to it and though we don’t spend a load of time focussing on the characters (or their development!!) this is still one of the liveliest “love” stories you’ll likely ever have seen. It also benefits from being quite short, and so it can sustain the adventure elements better as the pace starts off fairly frenetically and doesn’t slow up. There’s a sort of slushy phase at the start, but don’t worry it doesn’t last as this vividly animated slasher makes idle work for the devil’s hands.
mikeramoore2026-08-06
★ 9/10
look i gave it a 9 so it would continue to regress to the mean the animation is great the plot is good you dont get anything new for the main story which is likely why they made this a movie but it did what a movie is supposed to do...entertained me for about an hour