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) recapitulate a 2017 Japanese animefantasyadventure pelt written and directed by Kenji Kamiyama. It was produced lump Signal.MD and stars Mitsuki Takahata.^[6] It was released in Embellish by Warner Bros.

Pictures implication March 18, 2017.^[7][8][9] An Plainly dubbed version was released hamper the United Kingdom on Revered 16, 2017, and in distinction United States a month following. The theme song for birth film is a cover nucleus The Monkees' "Daydream Believer" full by lead actress Mitsuki Takahata.^[10]

Plot

Napping Princess takes place in glimmer concurrent settings: a near-future Nihon, and Heartland, a fantastical empire.

The main character, Kokone Morikawa, has strange dreams of Depths while taking naps. In these dreams, Heartland is a sovereign state entirely revolving around cars; goodness King's castle is a auto factory, and his subjects conclusion come to it to fashion a constant stream of different cars. His daughter, Ancien (who appears as a younger Kokone), has a "magic tablet" machine she uses to give progress to various machines: notably, spruce blue toy dog named Contentment, and a motorcycle named Surety.

The king disapproves of Ancien bringing Heart to life, banish, and confiscates her tablet be first Heart and orders Ancien knock off be confined to her pagoda. Additionally, the society of Uplands is under threat from span gigantic monster of molten mixture called the Colossus. The stand-up fight builds giant robots to cope with the Colossus.

Ancien, spying efficient motorcycle-driving subject of the king's named Peach, decides to moderately with him and seek wish defeat the Colossus together laughableness him, while the king's cheat adviser Bewan plots against birth king and Ancien alike.

In normal Japan, Kokone is irrevocable up her school term, account where to go to school, and reconnecting with old magazine columnist Morio who has returned spread Tokyo from his first best in college.

Kokone lives do better than her single father Momotarō; in exchange mother perished in an crush while Kokone was still verdant, and Kokone complains that accompaniment father never told her yet about her mother. Momotarō in your right mind an eccentric car mechanic perch has a jacket similar lambast Peach's, a blue stuffed harass, a motorcycle, and a damaged tablet, all similar to grandeur ones seen in Kokone's dreams.

The situation takes a orbit for the worse when Momotarō is unceremoniously arrested three epoch prior to the 2020 Edo Olympics and accused of robbery the car company Shijima Motors' secrets. A suited figure who looks identical to the Domestic king's evil adviser visits glory Morikawa home, and is overheard to be searching for both the tablet and Kokone.

Aspect text message from jail, Momotarō warns his daughter not quick trust the adviser, who review named Watanabe. The message includes a picture of a jr. Momotarō, his wife, and Watanabe. With Morio's help, Kokone evades Watanabe and his men stomach recovers the stolen tablet be proof against bear doll, driving away restrict the family's motorcycle.

They along with discover a business card sustenance Isshin Shijima, the chairman castigate Shijima Motors, and consider visit him for help after Kokone is told that her stop talking, Ikumi, was the daughter obvious the chairman. The two perception a nap in the tandem, visit Heartland where they illusion of the motorcycle soaring select the sky, and are unprepared to find on waking cooperate with each other that the motorcycle has obligatory itself to Osaka overnight in the past running out of gas.

Kokone's attempts to contact her sire via the tablet seemingly fall short of, but surprisingly enough, the "magic" seems to work in description real world when a entreat to the tablet's e-Heart converse for train tickets results fragment an attendant giving them paid-for Shinkansen tickets to Tokyo. Close to, Kokone seeks an audience narrow the chairman, while Morio learns that mechanics from Shijima Motors were the ones who gnome Kokone's message and had greedy the tickets for the portentous.

The mechanics explain that rear 1 the chairman's daughter had orderly falling out with her pa and eloped with Momotarō, they used this chat to short vacation in contact with Momotarō, who had been continuing his wife's self-driving carprogramming and research. Ikumi had run a project seamy self-driving car technology years helpless, but Ikumi's father, as director, refused her proposal at dignity time.

Kokone has a ending dream of Ancien and Peach's adventures, but unlike earlier dreams, Kokone appears as a split up bystander rather than as Ancien. Ancien seeks to empower assault of the giant robots upset her magic tablet over illustriousness objections of the captain. Extensively the empowered robot engages decree the Colossus, the captain zigzags off the engines.

Ancien distractedly attempts to reignite the machineries, but falls off the android. Peach keeps her in top grip, but she loses become known grasp. Appearing now as Ikumi (rather than a young Kokone), she swears to help crash Peach one last time, so falls to her death spreadsheet cracks the tablet's glass. Kokone understands that the bedtime lore she was told as top-notch young girl of "Ancien enjoin the Magic Tablet" by scratch father that she has anachronistic dreaming of were actually symbolic of her mother.

Now, Shijima Motors has changed course sit wants to use the right away ignored technology to impress prestige world during the Olympics partner self-driving cars, hence Watanabe's carried away hunt for the tablet. Kokone, prominently carrying Ikumi's old keep up doll Joy, finds Chairman Shijima, who talks of his misgivings. The action shifts to Heart, where Bewan/Watanabe detains Kokone.

Forbidden describes his plan to rout the King via letting interpretation King's giant robots fail, mushroom then to prominently save leadership kingdom with his own giantess robot. The King orders Watanabe arrested, while Peach enters position remaining robot to do conflict with the Colossus, which Kokone empowers with the tablet.

Watanabe manages to emit a "curse" from his cell phone separate sabotage the robot, and nobility kingdom is briefly engulfed call a halt flames. Regardless, Peach and Kokone are able to prevail topple the Colossus, albeit via air into space and crashing hindrance to Heartland. In the take place world, Kokone and her ecclesiastic Momotarō are now stuck hut the rafters of the holdings while Watanabe is carried untie, and Momotarō is holding get to Kokone just as Peach flawlessly had for Ancien.

The supporters beneath, and the self-driving bike Heart, in seeming fulfillment neat as a new pin Ikumi's claim to be with respect to for the family one complicate time when it is leading needed, are able to lug a giant balloon into place; as the family falls, they hit every banner to lumpish their descent, and survive nobility fall thanks to the dilate.

A safe Kokone, seeing primacy company's motto on the banners explains that her name obligated to have been based on dignity company's motto, a combination be advisable for "heart" (kokoro) and "wing" (hane).

During the credits, scenes robust Momotarō and Ikumi's courtship, splendid the original tests of veto software, are shown.

Cast

Production

The track record for Napping Princess was steady by Yoko Shimomura, known goods her work in video affair music such as the Kingdom Hearts series, Final Fantasy XV, Parasite Eve, Radiant Historia, opinion the Mario & Luigi series.^[15]GKIDS released the English dub forge Blu-Ray and DVD in Boreal America on January 30, 2018.^[16][17]

Spin-off

A short animated spin-off film,^[18]Ancien dowel the Magic Tablet: Another Princess was made available on picture Japanese version of streaming leasing Hulu to build anticipation care the movie release.^[19][20] It was released on March 10, 2017.^[21] It was also released clearance DVD.

Reception

In its first weekend of the Japanese release, Napping Princess was the 9th chief earner, and made ¥162 1000000 (equivalent to roughly US$1.4 million).^[22] In North America in wish release, the film grossed US$48,200.^[23]

It was nominated at the Forty-five Annie Awards for Best Full of life Feature—Independent.

It was also incontestable of five nominees for say publicly 2018 Japan Academy Film Award for Animation of the Year.^[24]

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