This fender and genre-bending film takes us into the not-too-distant machine-driven future. Kokone should be diligently studying for her university entrance exams, but she just can't seem to stay awake. Aside from stealing precious study time, her napping is even more distracting, as it brings on strange dreams with warring machines that hint at family secrets that have been dormant for years. She can't ask her father, a hipster mechanic more talented and artful than his job requires, as he's always busy modifying motorcycles and cars in flights of fancy. What are these visions that lead Kokone at once closer to and farther away from her family? Like all the best anime, the film revels in multilayered fantasy to show how sometimes opposites—waking and dreaming, the past and the future—are far more intertwined than they appear. (Source: New York International Children's Film Festival)

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Cast

Kokone Morikawa

Mitsuki Takahata

Joy

Rie Kugimiya

Ichirou Watanabe

Arata Furuta

Kijita

Tomoya Maeno

Ikumi Morikawa

Risa Shimizu

Momotarou Morikawa

Yousuke Eguchi

Sawatari

Wataru Takagi

Morio Sawatari

Shinnosuke Mitsushima

Isshin Shijima

Hideki Takahashi