The Japan based Nippon Animation has confirmed working on the adventure anime film Sinbad: Sora Tobu Hime to Himitsu no Shima (Sinbad: The Flying Princess and the Secret Island) to celebrate the completion the studio’s 40 years.
The family film is opening in Japan in July and Nippon Animation and Shirogumi are collaborating on planning and producing it. The movie’s tagline reads, “We can go anywhere in the world.”
The film’s story begins when Sinbad, the sailor made famous in the One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights) stories, dreaming of voyaging to an unknown world. He and his pet monkey Mimi encounter Sana, a girl riding a flying wooden horse.
Shinpei Miyashita (Doraemon: Nobita No Kyoryu assistant director) is helming the project. The character designer and animation director is Yoshiharu Sato and Hiroyuki Kawasaki is in charge of the “series” scripts. Aeon Entertainment is distributing the film.
Nippon Animation was founded in 1975 as an animation studio and is best known for making the World Masterpiece Theater, a decades-long string of television anime based on children’s literature. Nippon Animation also animated both the 1990 Chibi Maruko-chan television series and its current incarnation that has been airing since 1995.