The main visual for the upcoming A New Dawn anime film has been released, featuring two characters.
The movie will open in Japan on March 6, 2026. It was originally scheduled for a 2025 release,
A New Dawn (Hanarokusho ga Akeru Hi ni) is a French-Japanese co-production and the feature directorial debut of Yoshitoshi Shinomiya. It was selected to be part of the 77th Cannes Film Festival’s 2024 Annecy Animation Showcase. The official synopsis reads:
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’s past credits include Makoto Shinkai‘s The Garden of Words (poster illustrator) and Your Name (recollection scene key animator and unit director) to Sunao Katabuchi‘s In This Corner of the World (watercolor painter et al.) and Takayuki Hirao‘s Pompo the Cinephile (art board artist). He also 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)
• Character designer: Yoshitoshi Shinomiya
• Animation director: Yoshitoshi Shinomiya
• Animation director: Shohei Hamaguchi
• Background art director: Yoshitoshi Shinomiya
• Background art director: Akiko Majima (Your Name co-background art director)
• Music composer: Shuta Hasunuma
• Animation producer: Tsutomu Fujio (The House of the Lost on the Cape, Ping Pong The Animation)
• Production: Asmik Ace, Studio Outrigger, and Miyu Productions
• 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