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Rudolph to Ippaiattena 3D CG Film's 2nd Trailer, 3rd Teaser Streamed
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Rudolph to Ippaiattena. Both videos preview back number's theme song "Kuroi Neko no Uta" (Black Cat's Song).
2nd Trailer
3rd Teaser
The film will open on August 6, and will have both 2D and 3D screenings.
The film will adapt Hiroshi Saitō's original 1986 children's book of the same name. In the film's story, the young black cat Rudolph gets lost from his owner and ends up in Tokyo. In Tokyo, Rudolph meets the street-wise cat Ippaiattena and learns from him how to read and write. The story follows Rudolph as he works to return home.
The film will star Arata Furuta.
Sprite Animation Studios are animating the film.
Saitō published Rudolph to Ippaiattena, the first of the children's book series, in 1986. He followed up with the second and third books, Rudolph to Tomodachi Hitoridachi and Rudolph to Ikuneko Kuroneko, in 1988 and 2002, respectively. He published the fourth and latest book in the series, Rudolph to Snow White, in 2012.
