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Dallas Screens Madhouse's Princess & the Pilot Film on Sunday
posted on by Egan Loo
The A-Kon convention announced on Tuesday that NIS America and the USA Film Festival are screening MADHOUSE's The Princess and the Pilot (To Aru Hikūshi e no Tsuioku) anime film on Sunday at 5:00 p.m. in Dallas. The Angelika Film Center is hosting the English-subtitled screening as part of the 43rd Annual Spring Film Festival.
The film adapts Koroku Inumura's romance novel of the same name. NISA describes the story:
The war between the Levamme Empire and the Amatsukami Imperium has been raging for years. In the midst of this struggle, the prince of the Levamme Empire declares his love for Juana del Moral and vows to end the war in one year, as part of his marriage proposal. When the Amatsukami catch wind of this, they assault the del Moral residence, targeting Juana's life. As a last-ditch effort to bring the prince his bride, the San Maltilia Airforce employs a mercenary of mixed blood — a bestado — to fly Juana to the prince in secret. The pilot, Charles, accepts the mission ... but traversing an ocean alone, and into enemy territory, proves a much more dangerous ordeal than anyone could have anticipated.
Jun Shishido (Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger, The Story of Saiunkoku) directed the film. Satoko Okudera (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars, Wolf Children) wrote the screenplay, and character designer Hidenori Matsubara (Ah! My Goddess, Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo, King of Thorn) adapted the original novel illustrations by Haruyuki Morisawa (Lagrange - The Flower of Rin-ne).
The cast includes Ryunosuke Kamiki (Summer Wars' Kenji Koiso, Howl's Moving Castle's Markl) as Charles Karino, Seika Taketomi as Juana del Moral, Daisuke Ono (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya' Itsuki Koizumi, Wagnaria!!'s Jun Satou, Black Butler's Sebastian) as Carlo Levamme, and Daisuke Namikawa (Persona 4's Yu Narukami, Kimi ni Todoke's Shōta Kazehaya, Bleach's Ulquiorra) as Joaquin. The film opened in Japan in October 2011.
NIS America (NISA), the American subsidiary of the Nippon Ichi Software game company, will release the film on Blu-ray Disc in North America on May 14.
Thanks to James Nemanich for the news tip.
