Anime News - A Letter To Momo Teaser Streamed

The Japanese production company Kadokawa Pictures began streaming a 48-second teaser trailer for Hiroyuki Okiura (Jin-Roh) and Production I.G's Momo e no Tegami (A Letter to Momo) film on Tuesday. I.G describes the film's story as follows:

"Dear Momo" — that was all that was written on a letter left behind by Momo's late father. Momo and her mother have just moved from Tokyo to the countryside of Japan's Inland Sea. On an island lies a wondrous town surrounded on all sides by quaint homes and nature's landscape. Even as Momo starts a new life, she wonders, "Father, what did you really want to write in your letter…?" One day, she discovers an ancient book in the attic, and from that day forward, strange happenings occur all around Momo.

The film will open in Japan during next spring's Golden Week holidays. Okiura spent seven years planning, writing, storyboarding, and directing the film; it is his first return to the proverbial director's chair since Jin-Rohin 2000. Yūko Hara, the keyboardist for the band Southern All Stars, spent five years on the theme song "Uruswashimahoroba ~Utsukushii Basho~."

Masashi Ando (Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away) is overseeing the animation process. Among the animators on the team are Toshiyuki Inoue (Akira), Ei Inoue (The Cat Returns), Takeshi Honda (Evangelion: 2.0 You Can [Not] Advance), Tetsuya Nishio (Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence), and Hiroyuki Aoyama (Summer Wars).Hiroshi Ohno (Kiki's Delivery Service) is serving as art director.

[Via Catsuka, AICN Anime]

(animenewsnetwork.com)

This film has the makings of a modern classic so far. Hope that dream team pulls something out that everyone will remember in a decade at least.