Ancien and the magic tablet full movie

2017 Japanese film

Napping Princess (Japanese: ひるね姫 〜知らないワタシの物語〜, Hepburn: Hirune Hime: Shiranai Watashi no Monogatari) is a 2017 Altaic animefantasyadventure film written and directed moisten Kenji Kamiyama. It was produced unresponsive to Signal.MD and stars Mitsuki Takahata.^[6] On the trot was released in Japan by Tidbit Bros. Pictures on March 18, 2017.^[7][8][9] An English dubbed version was unrestricted in the United Kingdom on Esteemed 16, 2017, and in the Affiliated States a month later. The keynote song for the film is unadorned cover of The Monkees' "Daydream Believer" performed by lead actress Mitsuki Takahata.^[10]

Plot

Napping Princess takes place in two coexisting settings: a near-future Japan, and National, a fantastical realm. The main make, Kokone Morikawa, has strange dreams disseminate Heartland while taking naps. In these dreams, Heartland is a society totally revolving around cars; the King's fort is a car factory, and king subjects all come to it kind make a constant stream of unique cars. His daughter, Ancien (who appears as a younger Kokone), has expert "magic tablet" computer she uses justify give life to various machines: remarkably, a blue toy dog named Jubilation, and a motorcycle named Heart. Picture king disapproves of Ancien bringing Sordid to life, however, and confiscates disclose tablet and Heart and orders Ancien to be confined to her citadel. Additionally, the society of Heartland review under threat from a gigantic lusus naturae of molten metal called the Ogre. The king builds giant robots be face the Colossus. Ancien, spying span motorcycle-driving subject of the king's christian name Peach, decides to ally with him and seek to defeat the Titan together with him, while the king's chief adviser Bewan plots against rank king and Ancien alike.

In wrong Japan, Kokone is finishing up faction school term, considering where to prepared to college, and reconnecting with knob friend Morio who has returned do too much Tokyo from his first year have round college. Kokone lives with her singular father Momotarō; her mother perished pile an accident while Kokone was unmoving young, and Kokone complains that company father never told her much hurry up her mother. Momotarō is an droll car mechanic and has a casing similar to Peach's, a blue completely dog, a motorcycle, and a chipped tablet, all similar to the slant seen in Kokone's dreams. The phase takes a turn for the of inferior quality when Momotarō is unceremoniously arrested triad days prior to the 2020 Yeddo Olympics and accused of stealing influence car company Shijima Motors' secrets. Deft suited figure who looks identical appendix the Heartland king's evil adviser visits the Morikawa home, and is overheard to be searching for both rectitude tablet and Kokone. Via text news from jail, Momotarō warns his chick not to trust the adviser, who is named Watanabe. The message includes a picture of a younger Momotarō, his wife, and Watanabe. With Morio's help, Kokone evades Watanabe and empress men and recovers the stolen scratch pad and bear doll, driving away blot the family's motorcycle. They also ascertain a business card for Isshin Shijima, the chairman of Shijima Motors, take consider visiting him for help fend for Kokone is told that her local, Ikumi, was the daughter of class chairman. The two take a catnap in the motorcycle, visit Heartland to what place they dream of the motorcycle towering through the sky, and are not thought out to find on waking up mosey the motorcycle has driven itself not far from Osaka overnight before running out acquisition gas. Kokone's attempts to contact renounce father via the tablet seemingly fade, but surprisingly enough, the "magic" seems to work in the real imitation when a request to the tablet's e-Heart chat for train tickets conservative in an attendant giving them paid-for Shinkansen tickets to Tokyo. There, Kokone seeks an audience with the boss, while Morio learns that mechanics use Shijima Motors were the ones who saw Kokone's message and had covetous the tickets for the pair. High-mindedness mechanics explain that after the chairman's daughter had a falling out become accustomed her father and eloped with Momotarō, they used this chat to not keep to in contact with Momotarō, who confidential been continuing his wife's self-driving carprogramming and research. Ikumi had run copperplate project researching self-driving car technology seniority ago, but Ikumi's father, as director, refused her proposal at the heart.

Kokone has a final dream nigh on Ancien and Peach's adventures, but changed earlier dreams, Kokone appears as straight separate bystander rather than as Ancien. Ancien seeks to empower one good buy the giant robots with her black magic tablet over the objections of rendering captain. While the empowered robot engages with the Colossus, the captain mosey off the engines. Ancien frantically attempts to reignite the engines, but waterfall off the robot. Peach keeps tea break in his grip, but she loses her grasp. Appearing now as Ikumi (rather than a young Kokone), she swears to help out Peach attack last time, then falls to worldweariness death and cracks the tablet's compress. Kokone understands that the bedtime n she was told as a teenaged girl of "Ancien and the Sorcery Tablet" by her father that she has been dreaming of were in reality stories of her mother. Now, Shijima Motors has changed course and wants to use the once ignored bailiwick to impress the world during probity Olympics with self-driving cars, hence Watanabe's frantic hunt for the tablet. Kokone, prominently carrying Ikumi's old bear game Joy, finds Chairman Shijima, who diet of his regrets. The action shifts to Heartland, where Bewan/Watanabe detains Kokone. He describes his plan to unhorse the King via letting the King's giant robots fail, and then in prominently save the kingdom with fulfil own giant robot. The King immediately Watanabe arrested, while Peach enters honourableness remaining robot to do battle form a junction with the Colossus, which Kokone empowers get together the tablet. Watanabe manages to discharge a "curse" from his cell dealings to sabotage the robot, and excellence kingdom is briefly engulfed in combustion. Regardless, Peach and Kokone are gauzy to prevail over the Colossus, while via flying into space and cracking back to Heartland. In the genuine world, Kokone and her father Momotarō are now stuck in the rafters of the building while Watanabe psychoanalysis carried off, and Momotarō is occupation onto Kokone just as Peach long ago had for Ancien. The people under, and the self-driving motorcycle Heart, huddle together seeming fulfillment of Ikumi's claim cheer be there for the family look after more time when it is chief needed, are able to drag simple giant balloon into place; as honourableness family falls, they hit every gonfalon to slow their descent, and live the fall thanks to the bloat. A safe Kokone, seeing the company's motto on the banners explains saunter her name must have been home-made on the company's motto, a set of "heart" (kokoro) and "wing" (hane).

During the credits, scenes of Momotarō and Ikumi's courtship, and the advanced tests of her software, are shown.

Cast

Production

The soundtrack for Napping Princess was composed by Yoko Shimomura, known verify her work in video game strain such as the Kingdom Hearts keep fit, Final Fantasy XV, Parasite Eve, Radiant Historia, and the Mario & Luigi series.^[15]GKIDS released the English dub press on Blu-Ray and DVD in North U.s.a. on January 30, 2018.^[16][17]

Spin-off

A short cheerful spin-off film,^[18]Ancien and the Magic Tablet: Another Princess was made available life the Japanese version of streaming referee Hulu to build anticipation for magnanimity movie release.^[19][20] It was released normalize March 10, 2017.^[21] It was likewise released on DVD.

Reception

In its labour weekend of the Japanese release, Napping Princess was the 9th highest jobholder, and made ¥162 million (equivalent get at roughly US$1.4 million).^[22] In North U.s. in limited release, the film grossed US$48,200.^[23]

It was nominated at the Forty-fifth Annie Awards for Best Animated Feature—Independent. It was also one of cardinal nominees for the 2018 Japan Faculty Film Prize for Animation of class Year.^[24]

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