Twin Engine has announced that the 3rd Mononoke anime film, titled Gekijōban Mononoke Dai-San-Shō: Hebigami, will open on May 29, 2026 in theaters in Japan. What’s more, new cast members for the 3rd Mononoke film were revealed alongside new cast members.
New cast members include:
- Miyuki Sawashiro as the wife of the Third Emperor:
- Fumi Hirano as Tokiwai
- Mariko Honda as Kawa
Previously announced cast members include:
- Hiroshi Kamiya as the Medicine Seller.
- Atsumi Tanezaki as Sachiko
- Miyu Irino as Tenshi
- Kenjirō Tsuda as Hokuto Mizorogi
- Yoshiko Sakakibara as Suikōin
- Tomoyo Kurosawa as Asa
- Yōko Hikasa as Fuki Tokita
- Haruka Tomatsu as Botan Ōtomo
Kenji Nakamura returns from the second film as the general director, and Tomoaki Koshida is directing the third film at Studio Kafka and EOTA.
Additional staff members include:
- Screenplay: Yasumi Atarashi
- Character Design: Kitsuneko Nagata
- Animation Character Design/Chief Animation Director: Yūichi Takahashi
- Art Setting: Yōichi Katōno
- Art Directors: Akira Kuramoto, Yōko Saitō
- Art Supervision: Takashi Kurahashi
- Color Design: Kunio Tsujita
- Visual Director: Yoichi Senzui
- 3D Director: Kenichi Shirai
- Editing: Shigeru Nishiyama
- Sound Director: Yukio Nagasaki
- Producers: Kimiaki Sato, Kōichi Naruse, Haruka Kato, Minami Agematsu
- Planning Production: Kōji YAMAMOTO
Lastly, Crunchyroll describes the series as follows:
In feudal Japan, evil spirits known as mononoke plague both households and the countryside. Only one person has the power to kill them where they stand: the Medicine Seller. But in order to draw his spirit-slaying sword he must first understand the Form, Truth, and Reason of the mononoke. Armed with sharp wit, he wanders from place to place striking down the evil spirits in his wake.
