All You Need Is Kill Coming To UK and Irish Cinemas

One of the most hotly anticipated anime of the year has been confirmed to be coming to cinemas in the UK and Ireland,  Anime Limited and GKIDS Films (now stablemates at Toho Global) have announced the release of All You Need Is Kill. If that name sounds familiar, it's because it was the original Japanese sci-fi model that was adapted into the Tom Cruise film Edge Of Tomorrow. Produced by the acclaimed Studio 4°C, the film will screen exclusively in UK and Irish cinemas from February 27.

Based on the novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, the film follows Rita, a resourceful but isolated young woman who finds herself in a seemingly endless timeloop. She is killed while investigating the sudden emergence of monsters from giant alien flowers, only to wake up again and again. She meets a shy young man called Keiji, caught in the same situation.  Can they work together to break out of the timeloop and bring meaning to the chaos that surrounds them?

All You Need Is Kill is directed by Ken'ichirô Akimoto and Yukinori Nakamura, and written by Yûichirô Kido and Hiroshi Sakurazaka. The film premiered at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in 2025, before a Japanese release this January. It's an impressively fast turnaround for the UK release, and not far behind the US release.

The film is just the start of Anime Limited's plans for anime in cinemas this year. They will be releasing Akira, Angel's Egg, The Last Blossom, Lupin III The Movie: The Immortal Bloodline, Grave Of The Fireflies and more during 2026.

All You Need Is Kill will screen both in original language with subtitles and with an English dub.