The upcoming anime movie A New Dawn‘s Japanese release date has been delayed from 2025 to 2026.
The teaser trailer was also reuploaded with the updated release date.
A New Dawn is a French-Japanese co-production and the feature director debut of Yoshitoshi Shinomiya, whose past credits include Makoto Shinkai‘s The Garden of Words (poster illustrator) and Your Name (recollection scene key animator and unit director), Sunao Katabuchi‘s In This Corner of the World (watercolor painter et al.), and Takayuki Hirao‘s Pompo the Cinephile (art board artist).
The film was selected for the 77th Cannes Film Festival’s 2024 Annecy Animation Showcase, with Cannes describing the plot as:
The Obinata Fireworks Shop factory is getting prepared for an administrative action for confiscation tomorrow. It has been six years since Keitaro has been holed up in a closed-down factory creating fireworks by himself, chasing after an illusion of his father who vanished. It is a story about three young people who overcome the extreme weather conditions, disasters and environmental problems imposed on them and establish their own identities.
Shinomiya has previously directed short-form work like Tokino Kousa and the Chiaki Mayumura music video “Boukentai ~Heroes of the old forest~.”
Staff
• Director, scriptwriter, and creator: Yoshitoshi Shinomiya
• Character designer: Minakata Laboratory’s Utsushita (Tengoku Daimakyo)
• Animation director: Shohei Hamaguchi
• Background art: Akiko Majima (Your Name co-background art director)
• Music composer: Shuta Hasunuma
• Animation production: Asmik Ace, Studio Outrigger, and Miyu Productions
• Production: A NEW DAWN Film Partners
• Distribution: Asmik Ace
Cast
• Riku Hagiwara as Keitaro Obinata
• Kotone Furukawa as Kaoru
• Miyu Irino as Sentaro Obinata
• Takashi Okabe as Eitaro Obinata
Source: @hanaroku_movie
