diff --git a/arrow/compute/cast_test.go b/arrow/compute/cast_test.go
index 8cb495cb..ae0229a3 100644
--- a/arrow/compute/cast_test.go
+++ b/arrow/compute/cast_test.go
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/apache/arrow-go/v18/arrow/array"
 	"github.com/apache/arrow-go/v18/arrow/bitutil"
 	"github.com/apache/arrow-go/v18/arrow/compute"
+	"github.com/apache/arrow-go/v18/arrow/compute/exec"
 	"github.com/apache/arrow-go/v18/arrow/decimal128"
 	"github.com/apache/arrow-go/v18/arrow/decimal256"
 	"github.com/apache/arrow-go/v18/arrow/internal/testing/gen"
@@ -1679,6 +1680,33 @@ func (c *CastSuite) TestBinaryViewToBinaryLike() {
 	})
 }
 
+func (c *CastSuite) TestBinaryToBinaryViewReleasesTemporaryResult() {
+	in, _, err := array.FromJSON(c.mem, arrow.BinaryTypes.Binary, strings.NewReader(`["aGk=", "dGhpcyBpcyB0aGUgZmlyc3QgdGVzdCE=", null]`))
+	c.Require().NoError(err)
+
+	scope := memory.NewCheckedAllocatorScope(c.mem)
+	ctx := exec.WithAllocator(context.Background(), c.mem)
+
+	out, err := compute.CastArray(ctx, in, compute.SafeCastOptions(arrow.BinaryTypes.BinaryView))
+	c.Require().NoError(err)
+	out.Release()
+	scope.CheckSize(c.T())
+	in.Release()
+}
+
+func (c *CastSuite) TestBinaryViewToBinaryReleasesTemporaryResult() {
+	in := c.buildStringViewArray([]string{"a", "short", "this is a longer cast value"}, nil)
+
+	scope := memory.NewCheckedAllocatorScope(c.mem)
+	ctx := exec.WithAllocator(context.Background(), c.mem)
+
+	out, err := compute.CastArray(ctx, in, compute.SafeCastOptions(arrow.BinaryTypes.LargeBinary))
+	c.Require().NoError(err)
+	out.Release()
+	scope.CheckSize(c.T())
+	in.Release()
+}
+
 // TestBinaryViewToBinaryView covers cross-view casts (binary_view <->
 // string_view) and identity casts. These are zero-copy except for UTF-8
 // validation in the binary_view -> string_view direction.
diff --git a/arrow/compute/internal/kernels/binary_view_casts.go b/arrow/compute/internal/kernels/binary_view_casts.go
index 42d222c4..01a5c384 100644
--- a/arrow/compute/internal/kernels/binary_view_casts.go
+++ b/arrow/compute/internal/kernels/binary_view_casts.go
@@ -200,6 +200,7 @@ func CastBinaryToBinaryView(ctx *exec.KernelCtx, batch *exec.ExecSpan, out *exec
 	appendBinaryValues(arr, getVal, ba)
 
 	result := ba.bldr.NewArray()
+	defer result.Release()
 	out.TakeOwnership(result.Data())
 	return nil
 }
@@ -253,6 +254,7 @@ func CastBinaryViewToBinary[OutOffsetT int32 | int64](ctx *exec.KernelCtx, batch
 	appendBinaryValues(arr, getVal, ba)
 
 	result := ba.bldr.NewArray()
+	defer result.Release()
 	out.TakeOwnership(result.Data())
 	return nil
 }