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Amazon Streams Nippon Animation's Sinbad Film Trilogy With English Subtitles, Dub
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Amazon US is currently Nippon Animation's recent Sinbad anime film trilogy.
Each film has a runtime of around 50 minutes, and all the films are available for dub formats.
Amazon describes A Flying Princess and a Secret Island:
An anime trilogy based on the literary classic 'The Arabian Nights.” A hardworking and curious boy named SINBAD dreams of becoming a sailor and traveling around the world. One day, he encounters a mysterious girl on a flying wooden horse and a group of men who chases her by flying carpets. Flying carpet, iron ship, attacking giant birds, and the secret island… Many hardships remain ahead of him!
The film opened in Japan in July 2015.
Amazon describes The Magic Lamp and the Moving Islands:
Sinbad and the crews of the Bahr go out in search for the comrades of Sana, the princess of a legendary sorcerer clan. While repairing a damaged ship after a heavy storm, Sana feels the presence of the Magic Lamp. On the nearby island, they search for the lamp, but the hand of a demon intent on Sana draws close. What is the Magic Lamp? Where are Sana's comrades? The adventure continues!
The film opened in Japan in January 2016.
Amazon describes Night at High Noon and the Wonder Gate:
The search for Sana's comrades continues. Sara who opens up her heart to Sinbad reveals her horrible story of how her father's apprentice Galip destroyed the peaceful kingdom and her family by using the wizardly power. Suddenly the Magic Lamp shows the age “to the Wonder Gate to the land of ancestors that appears in the Night at High Noon,” but Galip's solders block their path.
The film opened in Japan in May 2016.
Nippon Animation collaborated with whiteeeen performed the theme song "Pocket" for all three films.
The films starred:
- Momoko Tanabe as Sana
- Tomo Muranaka as Sinbad
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- Tadashi Miyazawa as Najib
- Takeshi Kaga as Captain Razak
Nippon Animation was founded in 1975 as an animation studio and are best known for making the Chibi Maruko-chan television series and its current incarnation that has been airing since 1995.
Shirogumi is an animation studio that specializes in visual effects and CG graphics. The company is credited for the visual effects in the live-action movie Stand By Me Doraemon. Shirogumi has also made cinematics for video games such as No More Heroes, Demon's Souls, and Tales of Hearts.
[Via WTK]
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