Twin Engine has released a special trailer for Gekijōban Mononoke Dai-San-Shō: Hebigami (Mononoke the Movie: Chapter 3: Snake God), the third and final installment of the Mononoke film trilogy. The trailer compiles scenes from the first two chapters while previewing new footage from the third chapter, brimming with the eerie atmosphere that defines the franchise.
Story Synopsis
Following two major incidents within the inner chambers of the shogunate — the confrontation with Karakasa and the encounter with Fire Rat — peace appears to have returned at last. But the Medicine Seller (voiced by Hiroshi Kamiya) still senses something lurking in the shadows and cannot rest easy.
Meanwhile, Empress Consort Sajiko (voiced by Tanezaki Atsumi), the emperor’s consort (voiced by Irino Miyu), has finally given birth to a long-awaited heir. But the joy is short-lived — the consort falls gravely ill in her moment of happiness, and Sajiko, who had hoped to change her standing with the emperor by producing an heir, instead finds herself at the lowest point of her life. She is drawn into a terrifying scheme that threatens the stability of the entire Ooku. Her uncompensated grief and her rage with no outlet slowly transform into pure, seething vengeance.
Mizorogi Hokuto (voiced by Tsuda Kenjiro), the religious minister of “Omizu-sama” within the Ooku, surveys the events with cold, calculating eyes. At the same time, supernatural disasters keep recurring within the inner chambers — and just as a woman is about to be bitten, stung, and consumed to her death by something gigantic lurking beneath the floor, along with three gleaming triangular scales that fell — the Medicine Seller rushes to the scene and must face a monstrous Mononoke known as the Snake God. Though he can briefly hold it at bay with his tools, to permanently exorcise and destroy the Snake God he must uncover three things: its Form, its Truth, and its Regret. The answers to everything lie hidden within the events that unfolded 150 years ago in the dark history of the Ooku. What is the shocking truth that has never been revealed? And can the Medicine Seller survive the greatest crisis of his life?
New Voice Cast for Chapter 3
- Miyuki Sawashiro — Third Empress Consort
- Fumi Hirano — Tokiwai
- Mariko Honda — Kawa
- Yukana — Amanotsubone
- Eiji Takemoto — Saku Mizorogi
Hiroshi Kamiya returns once again as the Medicine Seller, joined by the voice cast from the previous two chapters.
Production Team and Theme Song
Kenji Nakamura continues as series director from Chapter 2, while the director for this chapter is Tomoaki Koshida. Produced at Studio Kafka and EOTA. The theme song is performed by Aina The End, titled “No Epilogue.”
The film opens in Japan on May 29.
The Mononoke Trilogy So Far
The first film, Mononoke The Movie: Phantom in the Rain (Gekijōban Mononoke: Karakasa), opened in Japan in July 2024 and is currently streaming on Netflix. It also won the Axis: Satoshi Kon Award for Excellence in Animation at the Fantasia 2024 International Film Festival in Montreal, where Aina The End performed the theme song “Love Sick.”
The second film, Mononoke the Movie Trilogy: Chapter 2: The Ashes of Rage (Gekijōban Mononoke Dai-Ni-Shō: Hinezumi), opened in Japan in March 2025, also featuring a theme song — “Hana Musō” — by Aina The End.
All three films are sequels to the 12-episode anime series Mononoke, which aired in 2007 as a spinoff of Ayakashi – Samurai Horror Tales, specifically its “Bakeneko” arc. The original series was directed by Kenji Nakamura at Toei Animation, with character design by Takashi Hashimoto and music composed by Yasuharu Takanashi.
Source: ann_jp
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