Provided is a light release additive for release sheets, the additive being capable of achieving a desired light release force with a small addition thereof to an organopolysiloxane composition for release sheets and of providing an excellent release coating such that the released adhesive sheet has a high subsequent adhesion. This light release additive for release sheets comprises an acryl-silicone-based graft copolymer with a weight-average molecular weight of 1,000 to 100,000 obtained by radical polymerization of (A) an organopolysiloxane compound having an acrylic group and/or a methacrylic group and (B) a radical polymerizable monomer having one radical polymerizable group per molecule.

The present invention provides a release film having good releasability such that a release force is light, and also suppresses silicone transfer from the film surface. The present invention relates to a release film having a surface layer on a substrate layer, in which a main component of the surface layer is a resin component, the resin component contains a modified acrylic-based resin having a polysiloxane component, and a relationship between a ratio M.sub.T of a content of silicon to a content of all elements existing on an outermost surface of the surface layer and a ratio M.sub.B of a content of silicon to a content of all elements existing at a position in a depth of 10 nm from the outermost surface of the surface layer vertically toward the substrate layer satisfies (i) 5M.sub.T/M.sub.B30 or (ii) M.sub.B=0, and 8.5M.sub.T30.