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Ancien and the Magic Tablet Anime Film's New Trailer Features Full Theme Song

Mitsuki Takahata.

The film opens in Japan on March 18. The New York International Children's Film Festival (NYICFF) will screen the film on March 19 in Japanese with English subtitles.

NYICFF describes the story:

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.

I.G Port's new anime composing the music for the film.

The film stars:

• Mitsuki Takahata as Kokone Morikawa/Ancien
• Arata Furuta as Ichirō Watanabe
• Hideki Takahashi as Isshin Shijima/King Heartland
• Shinnosuke Mitsushima as Morio Sawatari
• Tomoya Maeno as Kijita/Takiiji
• Yōsuke Eguchi as Momotarō Morikawa/Pōchi
• Rie Kugimiya as Joy
• Wataru Takagi as Sawatari/Ukkii
• Risa Shimizu as Ikumi Morikawa

Napping Princess - The Story of the Unknown Me manga adaptation simultaneously with Japan.

The film is also getting an anime Hulu Japan this month.