Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms | |||||
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Kanji | さよならの朝に約束の花をかざろう | ||||
Literal meaning | Let's decorate the morning of farewell with the promised flower | ||||
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Directed by | Mari Okada | ||||
Written by | Mari Okada | ||||
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Cinematography | Satoshi Namiki | ||||
Edited by | Ayumu Takahashi | ||||
Music by | Kenji Kawai | ||||
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Distributed by | Showgate | ||||
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Running time | 115 minutes | ||||
Country | Japan | ||||
Language | Japanese[1] | ||||
Box office | $4.3 million[2] |
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms[3] (Japanese: さよならの朝に約束の花をかざろう, Hepburn: Sayonara no Asa ni Yakusoku no Hana o Kazarō, lit. 'Let's Decorate the Promised Flowers on the Morning of Goodbye') is a 2018 Japanese animated high fantasy drama film directed and written by Mari Okada and produced by P.A. Works.[1][4] It features character designs and animation direction by Yuriko Ishii adapted from Akihiko Yoshida's original designs, and music composed by Kenji Kawai.[1] The film is Okada's directorial debut and the first standalone feature-length, theatrically-released production of P.A. Works.[5]
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms tells the story of the titular Maquia, a young girl who belongs to a special race called the Iorph, mystical beings who can live for hundreds of years. While escaping war, she finds a lone surviving newborn and raises him as her son.
The film premiered in Japan by Showgate on February 24, 2018, and at the Glasgow Film Festival on March 4, 2018.[6] It was released by Madman Entertainment on June 7, 2018.[7] It was released by Anime Limited on June 27, 2018.[8] It was released by Eleven Arts on July 20, 2018.[9][10] The film's English dub premiered on September 21, 2018 in the United States.[11] It was released on Blu-ray Disc and DVD in North America on February 5, 2019. The Blu-ray has both Japanese and English tracks, while the DVD only has an English track.[12]
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