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Purple Plan Streams English-Subtitled Trailer for Kenji Kamiyama's Napping Princess Film

Southeast Asian film distributor Purple Plan began open the film in Singapore on June 1, and in Malaysia on July 28.

The film opened in Japan on March 18, and screen in 40 countries and regions worldwide.

The New York International Children's Film Festival (NYICFF), which screened the film in the United States in March, describes the film:

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.

I.G Port's new anime composed the music for the film.

Lead actress Mitsuki Takahata performed the film's theme song, a cover of The Monkees' "Daydream Believer" song.

The film stars:

• Mitsuki Takahata as Kokone Morikawa/Ancien
• Arata Furuta as Ichirō Watanabe
• Hideki Takahashi as Isshin Shijima/King Heartland
• Shinnosuke Mitsushima as Morio Sawatari
• Tomoya Maeno as Kijita/Takiiji
• Yōsuke Eguchi as Momotarō Morikawa/Pōchi
• Rie Kugimiya as Joy
• Wataru Takagi as Sawatari/Ukkii
• Risa Shimizu as Ikumi Morikawa

The film also received a two-part anime Hulu Japan, and the second part debuted on March 17.