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Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel III. Spring Song (Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel] III.spring song)

Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel] III. spring song (劇場版「Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel]」Ⅲ.spring song) is a 2020 Japanese anime film and the final chapter of the three-part theatrical adaptation of Heaven's Feel, the third route of the Type-Moon visual novel Fate/stay night. It was directed by Tomonori Sudô at the studio ufotable, with a screenplay by Akira Hiyama, music by Yuki Kajiura, and the theme song "Haru wa Yuku" performed by Aimer.¹^•² The film was released in Japanese cinemas on August 15, 2020, after a postponement from its original March date caused by COVID-19 cinema closures in Japan.³

Key fact	Detail
Position in series	Third and final film of the [Heaven's Feel] trilogy, adapting the third route (the "Sakura Route") of the Fate/stay night visual novel⁴
Japanese release	August 15, 2020; originally scheduled for March 28, 2020, and delayed due to COVID-19³^•⁵
Runtime	122 minutes in Japanese release⁶
Director / studio	Tomonori Sudô; animation production by ufotable; distributed by Aniplex¹
Music	Score by Yuki Kajiura; theme song "Haru wa Yuku" (Spring Goes) by Aimer¹^•²
Box office	$19,252,497 gross worldwide; $200,000 in the United States and Canada²
Audience rating	8.0/10 on IMDb from about 3.9K votes²

Spoilers

Story

The film concludes the Holy Grail War storyline of the Heaven's Feel route. In the synopsis given by Aniplex of America, the war has become "horribly twisted": the young woman Sakura Matou drowns in darkness along with the sins she has committed, while Shirou Emiya, who vowed to protect her, works together with Rin Tohsaka to put a stop to the Holy Grail War. Illyasviel von Einzbern, one of the few who knows the truth behind the conflict, confronts her own fate, and Zouken Matou uses Sakura to try to fulfill his own desires.⁴ IMDb's summary states that Angra Mainyu has possessed his vessel Sakura Matou, and that it is up to Rin, Shirou, and Rider to cleanse the grail.² Rotten Tomatoes' synopsis frames the conflict around Shirou's ideals being challenged by an excruciating dilemma as the final act of the war commences.⁷

Production

Staff and studio. The film was produced by ufotable, which had also made the 2014 television anime Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works], with Tomonori Sudô directing after directing the first two chapters. Sudô shared character design credit with Atsushi Ikariya and Hisayuki Tabata, working from original character designs by Takashi Takeuchi. Akira Hiyama wrote the screenplay, Koji Eto was art director, Yuichi Terao was director of photography, and Yuki Kajiura composed the music. Hikaru Kondo served as animation producer and Aniplex distributed the film.¹

Cast. The Japanese cast carries over from the previous films and the Unlimited Blade Works adaptation: Noriaki Sugiyama as Shirou Emiya, Noriko Shitaya as Sakura Matou, Ayako Kawasumi as Saber Alter, Kana Ueda as Rin Tohsaka, Mai Kadowaki as Illyasviel von Einzbern, Jun'ichi Suwabe as Archer, Masane Tsukayama as Zouken Matou, Yu Asakawa as Rider, Tetsu Inada as True Assassin, Miki Itô as Taiga Fujimura, and Jōji Nakata as Kirei Kotomine.⁸^•² The English dub reunited the cast of Unlimited Blade Works, including Bryce Papenbrook as Shirou Emiya, with Tony Oliver as ADR director.⁴

Release

Theatrical. The film was scheduled to open in Japan on March 28, 2020, but was postponed two days before release when cinemas closed in Tokyo due to COVID-19; it was the first film in Japan to be delayed on those grounds.³^•⁵ It opened on August 15, 2020.³ It reached United States theaters in November 2020, with a listed US release date of November 18, 2020 and an opening weekend gross of $200,000 on November 22.⁴^•² In Australia it was classified MA 15+ on September 21, 2020 for strong fantasy themes and animated violence, with consumer-advice notes citing blood-spraying stabbings, brief animated nudity, and mild coarse language.⁹

Home video and streaming. In Japan the Blu-ray and DVD were released on March 31, 2021.⁵ Aniplex of America released the film on digital platforms on May 25, 2021 and on Limited and Standard Edition Blu-ray on August 17, 2021, with English and Japanese audio and English and Spanish subtitles; the Limited Edition box was illustrated by Takashi Takeuchi and included the Original Soundtrack III by Yuki Kajiura, an art book, and an Animation Material booklet with staff interviews.⁴ The complete trilogy began streaming on Crunchyroll on December 19, 2024, subtitled and with an English dub, across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Latin America, South Africa, and several other territories.¹⁰

Reception and box office

The film earned $19,252,497 worldwide, with $200,000 of that in the United States and Canada.² On IMDb it holds a rating of 8.0/10 from about 3.9K votes, and Rotten Tomatoes shows an audience Popcornmeter score of 81% with fewer than 50 ratings and no critic reviews tallied on its Tomatometer.²^•⁷ The trilogy as a whole performed strongly in Japan: the second film, II. lost butterfly (2019), drew 1.09 million admissions and recorded box-office revenue of 1.67 billion yen, exceeding the first film, I. presage flower (2017).¹¹

Context in the Fate series

Fate/stay night is a branching visual novel with three routes, Fate, Unlimited Blade Works, and Heaven's Feel, and the Heaven's Feel route is described by Crunchyroll's series history as a much darker take on the story, as much a character study of Sakura Matou as a fantasy action story.¹² The trilogy adapts this third route in three theatrical films released in 2017, 2019, and 2020, all directed by Tomonori Sudo at ufotable with scripts by Akira Hiyama and music by Yuki Kajiura.¹⁰ AniList lists the film's source as the visual novel and its genres as action, drama, fantasy, psychological, supernatural, and thriller, with tags including urban fantasy, magic, and battle royale.¹³

References

[STAFF/CAST, Official USA Website for Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel] III. spring song](https://www.fatestaynightusa.com/staffcast/)
[Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel] III. spring song (2020), IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8092118)
[Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel] iii.spring song Anime Film Finishes The War on August 15, Crunchyroll News (Daryl Harding, June 2020)](https://www.crunchyroll.com/news/latest/2020/6/26/fatestay-night-heavens-feel-iiispring-song-anime-film-finishes-the-war-on-august-15)
Aniplex of America press release, May 20, 2021: Blu-ray and Digital Release
[劇場版 Fate/stay night[Heaven's Feel] III.spring song 第三章, コノミー](https://www.cy.netgamebm.com/animation/view/5195/)
[劇場版 Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel] III. spring song, Japanese Film Database (JFDB)](https://jfdb.jp/title/9306)
Fate/Stay Night: Heavens Feel: III. Spring Song, Rotten Tomatoes
[劇場版 Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel] III. spring song, 映画.com](https://eiga.com/movie/90601/)
FATE/STAY NIGHT: HEAVEN'S FEEL III. SPRING SONG, Australian Classification
[Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel] THE MOVIE Trilogy Streams on Crunchyroll Starting December 19, Crunchyroll News (Kyle Cardine, November 2024)](https://www.crunchyroll.com/news/announcements/2024/11/23/fate-stay-night-heavens-feel-anime-movie-trilogy-crunchyroll-december-19)
[劇場版「Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel]」Ⅲ.spring song, Aniplex official site](https://www.aniplex.co.jp/lineup/fate-sn-3rd/)
A Brief History of the Fate Series, Crunchyroll News (April 2024)
[Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel] III. spring song, AniList](https://anilist.co/anime/21719/Fatestay-night-Heavens-Feel-III-spring-song)

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026