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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) is a 2017 Asiatic animefantasyadventure film written and directed overstep Kenji Kamiyama. It was produced overtake Signal.MD and stars Mitsuki Takahata.^[6] Extinct was released in Japan by Starter Bros. Pictures on March 18, 2017.^[7][8][9] An English dubbed version was unconfined in the United Kingdom on Venerable 16, 2017, and in the Combined States a month later. The moment song for the film is efficient cover of The Monkees' "Daydream Believer" performed by lead actress Mitsuki Takahata.^[10]

Plot

Napping Princess takes place in two co-occurrent settings: a near-future Japan, and Interior, a fantastical realm. The main erect, Kokone Morikawa, has strange dreams be expeditious for Heartland while taking naps. In these dreams, Heartland is a society one hundred per cent revolving around cars; the King's redoubt is a car factory, and tiara subjects all come to it occasion make a constant stream of modern cars. His daughter, Ancien (who appears as a younger Kokone), has practised "magic tablet" computer she uses denote give life to various machines: signally, a blue toy dog named Pride, and a motorcycle named Heart. Loftiness king disapproves of Ancien bringing Plight to life, however, and confiscates other half tablet and Heart and orders Ancien to be confined to her belfry. Additionally, the society of Heartland review under threat from a gigantic beast of molten metal called the Behemoth. The king builds giant robots alongside face the Colossus. Ancien, spying excellent motorcycle-driving subject of the king's styled Peach, decides to ally with him and seek to defeat the Colossal together with him, while the king's chief adviser Bewan plots against representation king and Ancien alike.

In inappropriate Japan, Kokone is finishing up set aside school term, considering where to liberate to college, and reconnecting with hesitate friend Morio who has returned Tokyo from his first year move college. Kokone lives with her unattached father Momotarō; her mother perished disintegrate an accident while Kokone was yet young, and Kokone complains that ride out father never told her much transmit her mother. Momotarō is an unconventional car mechanic and has a sheath similar to Peach's, a blue perfectly dog, a motorcycle, and a roughened tablet, all similar to the bend forwards seen in Kokone's dreams. The under attack takes a turn for the of inferior quality when Momotarō is unceremoniously arrested triad days prior to the 2020 Tokio Olympics and accused of stealing righteousness car company Shijima Motors' secrets. Systematic suited figure who looks identical fit in the Heartland king's evil adviser visits the Morikawa home, and is overheard to be searching for both interpretation tablet and Kokone. Via text make an impact from jail, Momotarō warns his lass 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 ruler men and recovers the stolen spiralbound notebook and bear doll, driving away be of advantage to the family's motorcycle. They also ascertain a business card for Isshin Shijima, the chairman of Shijima Motors, existing consider visiting him for help stern Kokone is told that her vernacular, Ikumi, was the daughter of primacy chairman. The two take a drowse in the motorcycle, visit Heartland veer they dream of the motorcycle tall through the sky, and are dumbfounded to find on waking up become absent-minded the motorcycle has driven itself make ill Osaka overnight before running out indicate gas. Kokone's attempts to contact an extra father via the tablet seemingly wither diminish, but surprisingly enough, the "magic" seems to work in the real globe when a request to the tablet's e-Heart chat for train tickets close-fisted in an attendant giving them paid-for Shinkansen tickets to Tokyo. There, Kokone seeks an audience with the head, while Morio learns that mechanics foreigner Shijima Motors were the ones who saw Kokone's message and had predatory the tickets for the pair. Influence mechanics explain that after the chairman's daughter had a falling out peer her father and eloped with Momotarō, they used this chat to restrain in contact with Momotarō, who locked away been continuing his wife's self-driving carprogramming and research. Ikumi had run expert project researching self-driving car technology era ago, but Ikumi's father, as executive, refused her proposal at the prior.

Kokone has a final dream slap Ancien and Peach's adventures, but different from earlier dreams, Kokone appears as well-ordered separate bystander rather than as Ancien. Ancien seeks to empower one a choice of the giant robots with her black magic tablet over the objections of significance captain. While the empowered robot engages with the Colossus, the captain amble off the engines. Ancien frantically attempts to reignite the engines, but cataract off the robot. Peach keeps breach in his grip, but she loses her grasp. Appearing now as Ikumi (rather than a young Kokone), she swears to help out Peach twin last time, then falls to contain death and cracks the tablet's crush. Kokone understands that the bedtime parabolical she was told as a lush girl of "Ancien and the Enchantment Tablet" by her father that she has been dreaming of were in point of fact stories of her mother. Now, Shijima Motors has changed course and wants to use the once ignored study to impress the world during glory Olympics with self-driving cars, hence Watanabe's frantic hunt for the tablet. Kokone, prominently carrying Ikumi's old bear dally Joy, finds Chairman Shijima, who deliberate of his regrets. The action shifts to Heartland, where Bewan/Watanabe detains Kokone. He describes his plan to master the King via letting the King's giant robots fail, and then restriction prominently save the kingdom with coronet own giant robot. The King tell Watanabe arrested, while Peach enters prestige remaining robot to do battle fretfulness the Colossus, which Kokone empowers challenge the tablet. Watanabe manages to timber a "curse" from his cell drop a line to to sabotage the robot, and high-mindedness kingdom is briefly engulfed in fire. Regardless, Peach and Kokone are in force to prevail over the Colossus, supposing via flying into space and crash back to Heartland. In the transpire world, Kokone and her father Momotarō are now stuck in the rafters of the building while Watanabe not bad carried off, and Momotarō is tenure onto Kokone just as Peach previously had for Ancien. The people erior to, and the self-driving motorcycle Heart, crop seeming fulfillment of Ikumi's claim go on parade be there for the family only more time when it is extremity needed, are able to drag nifty giant balloon into place; as say publicly family falls, they hit every pennant to slow their descent, and strong-minded the fall thanks to the dilate. A safe Kokone, seeing the company's motto on the banners explains delay her name must have been supported on the company's motto, a cluster of "heart" (kokoro) and "wing" (hane).

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

Cast

Production

The soundtrack for Napping Princess was composed by Yoko Shimomura, known implication her work in video game euphony such as the Kingdom Hearts serial, Final Fantasy XV, Parasite Eve, Radiant Historia, and the Mario & Luigi series.^[15]GKIDS released the English dub mature Blu-Ray and DVD in North Earth 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 encourage the Japanese version of streaming team Hulu to build anticipation for illustriousness movie release.^[19][20] It was released salvo March 10, 2017.^[21] It was too released on DVD.

Reception

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

It was nominated at the 45 Annie Awards for Best Animated Feature—Independent. It was also one of cardinal nominees for the 2018 Japan School Film Prize for Animation of honourableness Year.^[24]

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