During a stage greeting event over the weekend, the staff of Ancien and the Magic Tablet (Hirune Hime: Shiranai Watashi no Monogatari) anime film announced that the movie will premiere in 40 countries worldwide.
Also known as the Napping Princess, the film directed by Kenji Kamiyama, who is also the director of Eden of the East animated movie.
The film opened in Japan on March 18. The New York International Children’s Film Festival (NYICFF) will also screen it on March 19 in Japanese with English subtitles.
Film description (by NYICFF)
“This fender and genre-bending film takes us into the not-too-distant machine-driven future. Kokone should be diligently studying for her university entrance exams, but she just can’t seem to stay awake. Aside from stealing precious study time, her napping is even more distracting, as it brings on strange dreams with warring machines that hint at family secrets that have been dormant for years. She can’t ask her father, a hipster mechanic more talented and artful than his job requires, as he’s always busy modifying motorcycles and cars in flights of fancy. What are these visions that lead Kokone at once closer to and farther away from her family? Like all the best anime, the film revels in multilayered fantasy to show how sometimes opposites—waking and dreaming, the past and the future—are far more intertwined than they appear.”
With reports from Anime News Network