It was theatrically released in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Ireland on January 11 and 12, 2023. The film grossed $34.4 million worldwide and was the sixth highest-grossing Japanese film of 2022, making it the most commercially successful Ultraman film in the franchise.

Post-production was decelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in editing taking roughly two-and-a-half years.Īfter being delayed from an early summer 2021 release date due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Shin Ultraman was distributed in Japan on May 13, 2022. Principal photography took place during fall 2019 in Ibaraki Prefecture, Hiratsuka and Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Kōfu and Minobu in Yamanashi Prefecture, and Ichihara in Chiba Prefecture, and wrapped in November. Tsuburaya officially announced the film had begun production on August 1, 2019.

However, his participation in the film had to be deferred until the completion of Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time. A year after completing the plan for the trilogy on January 17, 2018, Anno wrote the first draft of Shin Ultraman's screenplay on February 5, 2019. In the summer of 2017, Anno was tasked with writing a proposal for a trilogy of Ultraman productions by Takayuki Tsukagoshi, the future chairman of Tsuburaya Productions. In the film, an extraterrestrial accidentally kills a man while battling a kaiju and takes on his appearance and place at the S-Class Species Suppression Protocol to protect Earth from further threats. The film stars Takumi Saitoh, Masami Nagasawa, Daiki Arioka, Akari Hayami, Tetsushi Tanaka, and Hidetoshi Nishijima, with Anno and Bin Furuya as Ultraman. It is the 37th film in the Ultraman franchise, and the third film in Anno's Shin Japan Heroes Universe, after Shin Godzilla (2016), Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (2021), with Shin Kamen Rider following in 2023. A reimagining of Ultraman, the film is a co-production between Toho Studios and Cine Bazar, and presented by Tsuburaya Productions, Toho Co., Ltd., and Khara, Inc. Shin Ultraman ( シン・ウルトラマン, Shin Urutoraman) is a 2022 Japanese superhero film directed by Shinji Higuchi and written, co-produced, and co-edited by Hideaki Anno.

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