Story of movie Fate/stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works 2010 Film : Fate/stay night the Movie: Unlimited Blade Works (??? ????/????????????????????? Gekij?ban Feito/sutei naito Anrimiteddo Bureido W?kusu) is a 2010 Japanese animated fantasy action film directed by Yuji Yamaguchi. The film was released in Japan on January 23, 2010 on 12 screens and grossed 37,699,500 yen. Unlimited Blade Works covers the events of the second route of the visual novel Fate/stay night by Type-Moon. The DVD and Blu-ray version was released on 31 October 2010 in Japan, with Sentai Filmworks releasing the DVD and Blu-ray to North America on 12 June 2012. Manga Entertainment released the DVD and Blu-ray on 30 September 2013.
| Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works | |
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| Directed by | Yuji Yamaguchi |
| Screenplay by | Takuya Sat? |
| Based on | Fate/stay night by Type-moon |
| Starring | Ayako Kawasumi Junichi Suwabe Kana Ueda Noriaki Sugiyama Mina Tomokazu Seki Hiroshi Kamiya Nobutoshi Canna |
| Music by | Kenji Kawai |
Production company | Studio Deen |
| Distributed by | Japan: The Klockworx Co., Ltd. North America: Sentai Filmworks United Kingdom: Manga Entertainment |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Box office | $3,205,829 |
Screenplay
Shirou Emiya is an average student that is dragged into a war over the Holy Grail, an item that can fulfill any wish or desire. The contestants all use spirit servants to fight each other, however as Emiya is a newcomer and unskilled he must join together with Rin Tohsaka to survive the battles. This is only a temporary solution, as Tohsaka's spirit servant Archer greatly dislikes Emiya for an unknown reason.
| Character | Japanese voice | English voice |
|---|---|---|
| Saber | Ayako Kawasumi | Michelle Ruff |
| Archer | Junichi Suwabe | Liam O'Brien |
| Rin Tohsaka | Kana Ueda | Mela Lee |
| Shirou Emiya | Noriaki Sugiyama | Sam Riegel |
| Caster | Atsuko Tanaka | Tara Platt |
| Shinji Matou | Hiroshi Kamiya | Doug Erholtz |
| Kirei Kotomine | Jouji Nakata | Jamieson Price |
| Illyasviel von Einzbern | Mai Kadowaki | Stephanie Sheh |
| Taiga Fujimura | Miki Itou | Julie Ann Taylor |
| Lancer | Nobutoshi Canna | Tony Oliver |
| Sakura Matou | Noriko Shitaya | Sherry Lynn |
| Assassin | Shinichiro Miki | David Vincent |
| Berserker | Tadahisa Saizen | Michael McConnohie |
| Gilgamesh | Tomokazu Seki | Grant George |
| Rider | Yu Asakawa | Karen Strassman |
| Soichiro Kuzuki | Kazuhiro Nakata | Patrick Seitz |
| Announcer | Saori Hayami | - |
| Title | Singer |
|---|---|
| Imitation | Sachi Tainaka |
| Voice ~Tadoritsuku Basho~ | Sachi Tainaka |
DVD Talk wrote that the movie was "basically a clip-show" and that while the action was polished, it had "a rushed, incomplete feeling" and was for "fans of the series only". A reviewer for the Anime News Network gave an overall positive review but mentioned that the film felt like it had been overly edited.
Box office
Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works grossed $3,205,829 worldwide, including ¥280 million ($3.2 million) in Japan and $5,829 in Taiwan.
