Southeast Asian anime distributor Odex began streaming a teaser trailer for Gekijōban Yowamushi Pedal (Yowamushi Pedal: The Movie), the recent all-new anime film based on Wataru Watanabe's cycling manga, with English subtitles on Monday. The company is releasing the film in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines from December to January. The film opened in Japan on August 28.

Watanabe wrote the new story for the film:

[Highlight white text to read spoilers for the earlier manga and television anime] After winning the fierce Inter High race, Sakamichi and the other Sōhoku team members receive an invitation to compete in the Kumamoto Hi Province Mountain Range Race toward the end of summer. The top-tier teams from around the country compete in this race, including Sōhoku's rivals Hakone Academy (which yearns to take down Sōhoku), Kyoto Fushimi, and Hiroshima Kureminami — as well as Kumamoto Daiichi High School's team led by Shin Yoshimoto.

On the stage of Kumamoto Prefecture's Mount Aso, the curtain rises for the "final race" of Sōhoku team led by Kinjō.

The returning cast from the two TV anime series includes:

Daiki Yamashita as Sakamichi Onoda

Kousuke Toriumi as Shunsuke Imaizumi

Jun Fukushima as Shōkichi Naruko

Hiroki Yasumoto as Shingo Kinjō

Showtaro Morikubo as Yūsuke Makishima

Kentarou Itou as Jin Tadokoro

Tsubasa Yonaga as Sangaku Manami

Tomoaki Maeno as Juichi Fukutomi

Hiroyuki Yoshino as Yasutomo Arakita

Tetsuya Kakihara as Jinpachi Tōdō

Satoshi Hino as Hayato Shinkai

Atsushi Abe as Tōichirō Izumida

Koji Yusa as Akira Midōsuji

Hirofumi Nojima as Kōtarō Ishigaki

Chihiro Suzuki as Nobuyuki Mizuta

Tomokazu Seki as Eikichi Machiyama

Yoshiyuki Shimozuma as Ryō Ibitani

Hiroaki Tajiri as Yoshiaki Taura

Mamoru Miyano (Free! - Iwatobi Swim Club, Tokyo Ghoul) joined the cast as the new character Shin Yoshimoto, the ace of Kumamoto Daiichi High School. He is a third-year Kumamoto Daiichi High School student who possesses a cheerful yet aggressive personality. He was not able to participate in the Inter High due to an injury, but he still has first-class legs honed on Mount Aso.

The television anime's director Osamu Nabeshima served as chief director of the film, with Norihiro Naganuma (assistant director and script contributor on Hozuki no Reitetsu) as the film's hands-on director. After performing the second television season's opening theme song, the rock band Lastgasp returned to contribute the movie's theme song "Link." The other staff members include:

Script: Reiko Yoshida

Character Design: Yukiko Ban, Yuko Iwasa

Design Works: Yoshio Mizumura

Art Setting: Tomoyuki Aoki, Yukie Inose

2D Works: Chie Nishitani

Art Director: Shunichiro Yoshihara

Color Key: Fusako Nakao

CG Director: Takeshi Sanada

Director of Photography: Takeshi Katsurayama, Daichi Nogami

Editor: Kumiko Sakamoto

Sound Director: Takeshi Takadera

Music: Kan Sawada

Animation Production: TMS Entertainment

Distributor: Toho

The original manga follows Sakamichi Onoda, an otaku at Sōhoku High School. He loves anime and games so much, that he would ride his commuter bicycle to and from Tokyo's Akihabara shopping district in a 90-kilometer (about 60-mile) round trip over steep slopes after school. Onoda's life changes when he encounters his school's cycling team, and he ends up joining the competitive sport of bicycle racing.

The television anime premiered in October 2013, and Crunchyroll streamed the anime outside of Japan as it aired. The first compilation film, Yowamushi Pedal Re:RIDE , played in a limited two-week engagement from September 19 to October 2 in 10 Japanese theaters last year. It compiled the first half of the Inter High arc from the first television anime season with some cuts of new footage added.