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Napping Princess (2017) is Kenji Kamiyama's animated feature from Japan, ready to watch online on iFILM. Schoolgirl Kokone keeps dozing off and slipping into the same dream about a magical kingdom.
A few days before the Tokyo Olympics, seventeen-year-old Kokone lives in a sleepy town with her father, a quiet mechanic with uncanny hands. Instead of cramming for exams she drifts into dreams ruled by Princess Ancien, a sorceress who looks exactly like her. Bit by bit she realizes the dream-world of magic and motorized war-machines holds the keys to her real past — and to her father's secret.
Kamiyama, of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, delivers a surprisingly warm story where the line between sleep and waking dissolves and the real engine of the plot turns out to be engineering and family memory, not spells. A gentle fantasy for viewers who want auteur anime away from the big franchises. Stream Napping Princess (2017) online on iFILM.
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