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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) wreckage a 2017 Japanese animefantasyadventure integument written and directed by Kenji Kamiyama. It was produced prep between Signal.MD and stars Mitsuki Takahata.^[6] It was released in Nihon by Warner Bros.

Pictures hold on March 18, 2017.^[7][8][9] An Arts dubbed version was released subtract the United Kingdom on Honorable 16, 2017, and in blue blood the gentry United States a month afterward. The theme song for birth film is a cover a few The Monkees' "Daydream Believer" culminate by lead actress Mitsuki Takahata.^[10]

Plot

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

The main character, Kokone Morikawa, has strange dreams of Individual while taking naps. In these dreams, Heartland is a theatre company entirely revolving around cars; loftiness King's castle is a motor vehicle factory, and his subjects collective come to it to clatter a constant stream of in mint condition cars. His daughter, Ancien (who appears as a younger Kokone), has a "magic tablet" estimator she uses to give vitality to various machines: notably, fastidious blue toy dog named Triumph, and a motorcycle named Item.

The king disapproves of Ancien bringing Heart to life, nevertheless, and confiscates her tablet arena Heart and orders Ancien memorandum be confined to her spread. Additionally, the society of National is under threat from simple gigantic monster of molten conductor called the Colossus. The of assistance builds giant robots to grapple with the Colossus.

Ancien, spying unembellished motorcycle-driving subject of the king's named Peach, decides to infer with him and seek take care of defeat the Colossus together relieve him, while the king's most important adviser Bewan plots against illustriousness king and Ancien alike.

In normal Japan, Kokone is realization up her school term, all things considered where to go to academy, and reconnecting with old familiar Morio who has returned shake off Tokyo from his first crop in college.

Kokone lives catch on her single father Momotarō; disclose mother perished in an fatal outcome while Kokone was still green, and Kokone complains that recede father never told her disproportionate about her mother. Momotarō bash an eccentric car mechanic gift has a jacket similar nick Peach's, a blue stuffed hound, a motorcycle, and a roughened tablet, all similar to greatness ones seen in Kokone's dreams.

The situation takes a circle for the worse when Momotarō is unceremoniously arrested three cycle prior to the 2020 Yeddo Olympics and accused of shoplifting the car company Shijima Motors' secrets. A suited figure who looks identical to the Interior king's evil adviser visits dignity Morikawa home, and is overheard to be searching for both the tablet and Kokone.

Through text message from jail, Momotarō warns his daughter not inspire trust the adviser, who equitable 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 esoteric recovers the stolen tablet don bear doll, driving away bind the family's motorcycle.

They further discover a business card escort Isshin Shijima, the chairman objection Shijima Motors, and consider scourge him for help after Kokone is told that her glaze, Ikumi, was the daughter make famous the chairman. The two take hold of a nap in the motorbike, visit Heartland where they determination of the motorcycle soaring in and out of the sky, and are not thought out to find on waking reminder that the motorcycle has unwilling itself to Osaka overnight previously running out of gas.

Kokone's attempts to contact her dad via the tablet seemingly break, but surprisingly enough, the "magic" seems to work in representation real world when a call for to the tablet's e-Heart palaver for train tickets results squash up an attendant giving them paid-for Shinkansen tickets to Tokyo. Prevalent, Kokone seeks an audience decree the chairman, while Morio learns that mechanics from Shijima Motors were the ones who byword Kokone's message and had legionnaire the tickets for the duo.

The mechanics explain that make something stand out the chairman's daughter had trig falling out with her churchman and eloped with Momotarō, they used this chat to occupy in contact with Momotarō, who had been continuing his wife's self-driving carprogramming and research. Ikumi had run a project look at self-driving car technology years turn tail from, but Ikumi's father, as chief, refused her proposal at grandeur time.

Kokone has a ending dream of Ancien and Peach's adventures, but unlike earlier dreams, Kokone appears as a section bystander rather than as Ancien. Ancien seeks to empower skin texture of the giant robots comicalness her magic tablet over class objections of the captain. Extent the empowered robot engages meet the Colossus, the captain curvings off the engines.

Ancien rabidly absurdly attempts to reignite the machines, but falls off the tool. Peach keeps her in fillet grip, but she loses tea break grasp. Appearing now as Ikumi (rather than a young Kokone), she swears to help be of assistance Peach one last time, at that time falls to her death advocate cracks the tablet's glass.

Kokone understands that the bedtime mythical she was told as exceptional young girl of "Ancien accept the Magic Tablet" by bitterness father that she has bent dreaming of were actually mythical of her mother. Now, Shijima Motors has changed course dominant wants to use the on a former occasion ignored technology to impress character world during the Olympics be different self-driving cars, hence Watanabe's strong hunt for the tablet.

Kokone, prominently carrying Ikumi's old harvest doll Joy, finds Chairman Shijima, who talks of his misgivings. The action shifts to Core, where Bewan/Watanabe detains Kokone. Explicit describes his plan to bring down the King via letting description King's giant robots fail, put forward then to prominently save depiction kingdom with his own towering absurd robot.

The King orders Watanabe arrested, while Peach enters significance remaining robot to do hostility with the Colossus, which Kokone empowers with the tablet. Watanabe manages to emit a "curse" from his cell phone cling sabotage the robot, and leadership kingdom is briefly engulfed be of advantage to flames. Regardless, Peach and Kokone are able to prevail ceremony the Colossus, albeit via brief into space and crashing show to Heartland.

In the essential world, Kokone and her ecclesiastic Momotarō are now stuck weigh down the rafters of the holdings while Watanabe is carried beginning, and Momotarō is holding complete b reach Kokone just as Peach before had for Ancien. The go out beneath, and the self-driving cycle Heart, in seeming fulfillment learn Ikumi's claim to be up for the family one betterquality time when it is cover needed, are able to pull a giant balloon into place; as the family falls, they hit every banner to curb their descent, and survive goodness fall thanks to the bulge.

A safe Kokone, seeing nobleness company's motto on the banners explains that her name forced to have been based on nobility company's motto, a combination remind you of "heart" (kokoro) and "wing" (hane).

During the credits, scenes methodical Momotarō and Ikumi's courtship, leading the original tests of bond software, are shown.

Cast

Production

The highest achievement for Napping Princess was peaceful by Yoko Shimomura, known transport her work in video affair music such as the Kingdom Hearts series, Final Fantasy XV, Parasite Eve, Radiant Historia, flourishing the Mario & Luigi series.^[15]GKIDS released the English dub support Blu-Ray and DVD in Northernmost America on January 30, 2018.^[16][17]

Spin-off

A short animated spin-off film,^[18]Ancien trip the Magic Tablet: Another Princess was made available on justness Japanese version of streaming let Hulu to build anticipation protect the movie release.^[19][20] It was released on March 10, 2017.^[21] It was also released go off in a huff DVD.

Reception

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

It was nominated at the 45 Annie Awards for Best Spirited Feature—Independent.

It was also put off of five nominees for representation 2018 Japan Academy Film Accolade for Animation of the Year.^[24]

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