Zombie Land Saga: Yumeginga Paradise

Zombie Land Saga: Yumeginga Paradise
Theatrical release poster
Japanese	劇場版「ゾンビランドサガ ゆめぎんがパラダイス」
Revised Hepburn	Gekijōban Zonbi Rando Saga: Yumeginga Paradaisu
Directed by	Kōnosuke Uda[a] Takafumi Ushida Takeru Satō
Screenplay by	Shigeru Murakoshi
Based on	Zombie Land Saga by Public Relation Section, Zombie Division [1]
Starring	Mamoru Miyano Kaede Hondo Asami Tano Risa Taneda Maki Kawase Rika Kinugawa Minami Tanaka Kotono Mitsuishi
Cinematography	Madoka Yagi
Edited by	Mutsumi Takemiya
Music by	Yasuharu Takanashi
Production company	MAPPA
Distributed by	Toei Company, Ltd.[2]
Release date	October 24, 2025 (2025-10-24)
Running time	122 minutes[3]
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Box office	$191,002

Zombie Land Saga: Yumeginga Paradise^[b] is a 2025 Japanese animated comedy horror film co-directed by Takafumi Ushida and Takeru Satō with chief direction by Kōnosuke Uda, and written by Shigeru Murakoshi; the film is based on the Zombie Land Saga anime series by Public Relation Section, Zombie Division.^[1] Produced by MAPPA and distributed by Toei Company, Yumeginga Paradise takes place four years after the event of the second season. Mamoru Miyano, Kaede Hondo, Asami Tano, Risa Taneda, Maki Kawase, Rika Kinugawa, Minami Tanaka and Kotono Mitsuishi reprise their respective roles from the television series. Yumeginga Paradise was released in Japan on October 24, 2025.^[4]

Plot

Franchouchou is attending an observatory exhibit for children hosted by astronomer Naomasa Amabuki, Maria's father. After Kotaro leaves for Tokyo to promote the Saga World Expo, the idol girls go on fulfilling their duties at a galaxy-theme venue, when suddenly a massive mushroom-like alien spaceship appears in the sky and transmit global messages via television declaring "surrender these lands." The aliens launch beam vortexes on the surface. When the human population took immediate evacuation, Tae Yamada got unwittingly abducted with a cow and brought aboard the mothership. The blind aliens are unable to detect Tae's presence because zombies have no heat signature. She reached the ship's core and ate a power stone thinking it was ice cream. The removed stone restored Tae's sanity and disabled the UFO's beams. Unfazed, she escapes to a flying saucer with stolen weapons and crashes back into the mansion.

The girls are astounded of Tae's true personality. More flying saucers come down pursuing Franchouchou in a van. Destroying a few others, they ran over a footed alien that was chasing Maria and her friends. Saga has sustained devastating damage, and the government worries they'll have to fire nuclear missiles that will wipe Saga off the map. The girls take the alien specimen to Naomasa for study. He deduces these non-negotiable aliens to only respond to sensitive sounds and uses advanced goggles to detect living organisms. Later, Tae's origin further amazes the idol group that she was one of Saga's great protectors from thirty-years ago. The captured alien reawakens and gives chase until fleeing, but the attack exposes Sakura, Saki, Ai, Junko, Yugiri, and Lily as zombies to the human team. Tae calls Franchouchou weak and steps away. Using thermal blankets to avoid alien infrared vision, Tae takes the lead when the six zombies instead used themselves as decoys to evade alien reinforcements.

The next day, Kotaro is fetched by an over-sized Romero after falling into a mud pool. He formally reveals that it was Tae's own will to be resurrected. The team elaborates on a plan to raise ambient temperatures by using fireworks meant for the Expo to distract flying saucers, while Tae riding a hot-air balloon to infiltrate the UFO again. Zombies have the advantage of delivering the word to everybody who is taking shelter to commence the scheduled plan. At nightfall, fireworks and promotion trucks take the stage as Franchouchou caught up with Tae and skydive (despite Junko's acrophobia) into the mothership. As things become tight on surface and outer space, the girls use their hidden zombie skills to fight off the aliens; however, Tae finds the ship's core cannot be overloaded without the stone inside her. She tricks the others into leaving on a saucer, except Sakura saw through her. Tae apologizes for her previous behavior and spits out the stone to reinsert it then overloads the mothership to smithereens. Everyone else worries that the explosion may have killed Tae and Sakura permanently, both managed to land safely on the beach, then lastly the unnamed policeman shot down a surviving alien before passing out in fear. Sakura caught a glimpse of Kotaro with his sunglasses off.

Saga is being rebuilt flawlessly. Franchouchou prepares for the concert at the arena and as the performance concludes, Tae goes chewing on her microphone and then Sakura's head to everyone's joy.

Voice cast

Production

In October 2021, it was announced that a film adaptation for Zombie Land Saga was in production.^[6][7] In January 2025, it was revealed that the film was titled Yumeginga Paradise,^[8] with majority of the voice cast members from the television series reprising their roles in April of that year.^[1] Takafumi Ushida and Takeru Satō are directing the film at MAPPA with chief direction by Kōnosuke Uda, while Shigeru Murakoshi is returning to provide the screenplay, Jinshichi Yamaguchi is co-designing the characters with Fuminide Sai and Kasumi Fukagawa, and Yasuharu Takanashi also returning to compose the music from the television series. In July and October of that same year, two new songs from in-universe idol group Franchouchou were revealed,^[4] while Daisuke Ono was cast as Naomasa Amabuki.^[5][9]

Release

The film was released in theaters in Japan on October 24, 2025, followed by Taiwan on December 24.^[4][10]

An English-language dub of the film was theatrically released in the United States and Canada on January 19, 2026 by Sony Pictures Releasing International and Crunchyroll.^[11]

Reception

Notes

References

External links

• Official movie site (in Japanese)
• Zombie Land Saga: Yumeginga Paradise (film) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia