Napping Princess (Aberystwyth - UK)
Saturday
28
October
2017
Start Date: 28 October 2017
Start Time:
Country: United Kingdom
Posted By: Joe
Categories: Screening Anime Film
Where is it?
Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Aberystwyth University
Penglais Campus
Aberystwyth
SY23 3DE
United Kingdom
Running Time: 110 mins.
Director: Kenji Kamiya
Writer: Kenji Kamiya (Screenplay),
Animation Production: Signal.MD
Starring: Mitsuki Takahata (Kokone Morikawa), Arata Furuta (Watanabe), Hideki Takahashi (Isshin Shijima), Shinnosuke Mitsushima (Morio),
Production I.G has been the creative home to director Kenji Kamiyama and he directed the TV anime Eden of the East, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, and Moribito - Guardian of the Spirit. Napping Princess is an original anime from Kamiya and it was produced by Signal.MD. a subsidiary studio of Production I.G. The film was screened at the New York Children's Film Festival and Yubari Fantastic Film Festival.
Synopsis: Days before the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Kokone, a high school girl who spends more time sleeping than studying, has the same strange dream filled with futuristic warring machines which seem to be connected to her family in some secret way. She will soon uncover the truth after her mechanic father is arrested and she travels to Tokyo and between dreams and reality to rescue him.