Napping Princess

Synopsis

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. (Source: New York International Children's Film Festival)

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Characters & Voice Actors

Kokone MorikawaMain

Mitsuki TakahataJP

JoySupporting

Rie KugimiyaJP

Ichirou WatanabeSupporting

Arata FurutaJP

KijitaSupporting

Tomoya MaenoJP

Ikumi MorikawaSupporting

Risa ShimizuJP

Momotarou MorikawaSupporting

Yousuke EguchiJP

SawatariSupporting

Wataru TakagiJP

Morio SawatariSupporting

Shinnosuke MitsushimaJP

Isshin ShijimaSupporting

Hideki TakahashiJP

Staff

Stephanie ShehADR Director (English)

Michael SinterniklaasADR Director (English)

Mitsuo IsoKey Animation

Youko ShimomuraMusic

Kenji KamiyamaScript

Kenji KamiyamaDirector

Kenji KamiyamaStoryboard

Yoshiki SakuraiProducer

Relations

OtherAncien to Mahou no Tablet: Mou Hitotsu no Hirune Hime

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