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\u00a92025\u300cChaO\u300d\u88fd\u4f5c\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a<\/p>\n The film will open in Japanese theaters on August 15.<\/p>\n GKIDS<\/a> licensed<\/a> ChaO, and it describes<\/a> the story:\n<\/p>\n From acclaimed Japanese animation production house Studio 4\u00b0C comes a wild romantic comedy and true \u201cfish out of water\u201d story. In a futuristic world where humans and mermaids coexist, ChaO follows Stephan, a mild-mannered office worker at a shipbuilding company, whose life is upended when he is suddenly proposed to by Chao \u2014 a princess from the mermaid kingdom. With no time to make sense of what’s happening, Stephan soon finds himself living with the unpredictable, wholehearted Chao. As her sincere love begins to break down his emotional barriers, an unexpected and touching romance begins to unfold.<\/p>\n \u014cji Suzuka<\/a> (Kimi ni Todoke<\/a>, The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes<\/a>) plays Stefan, a salaryman at a ship-making company. Anna Yamada<\/a> (live-action Golden Kamuy<\/a>, Saki) plays ChaO, the pure princess of the mermaid kingdom.<\/p>\n The film also stars:\n<\/p>\n Aoki (Kimagure Robot<\/a>, Tweeny Witches<\/a>) directed the film at Studio 4\u00b0C, and Hirokazu Kojima<\/a> (Deadman Wonderland<\/a>, Coyote Ragtime Show<\/a>) is the character designer and chief animation director. Hiroshi Takiguchi<\/a> (Ajin<\/a>, The Case of Hana & Alice<\/a>, The Garden of Words<\/a>) is the art director. Takatsugu Muramatsu<\/a> (Mary and The Witch’s Flower<\/a>, Phoenix: Eden17<\/a>) composed the soundtrack. Toei<\/a> is distributing the film.<\/p>\n Kumi K\u014dda<\/a> performs<\/a> the opening theme song “ChaO!,” written specifically for the film.<\/p>\n The film premiered at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, which ran in France from June 8 to June 14, and also won<\/a> the Jury Prize. The JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film screened<\/a> the film on its opening night at New York on July 10. The film then screened<\/a> at the 29th annual Fantasia International Film Festival<\/a>, which ran from July 16 through August 3 in Montreal. <\/p>\n The film will compete<\/a> for the Grand Prize for Feature Animation at this year’s Ottawa International Animation Festival, which will be held from September 24-28.<\/p>\n Source: Mainichi Shimbun’s Mantan Web<\/a>, Mainichi Shimbun’s MAiDiGiTV YouTube<\/a> channel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Annecy-winning film debuts in Japan on August 15 The staff for Yasuhiro Aoki and Studio 4\u00b0C‘s anime feature…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-60982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"chao-visual.jfif\"](\"\/thumbnails\/max300x600\/cms\/news.8\/225195\/chao-visual.jfif.jpeg\")
Image via ChaO film’s X\/Twitter account<\/a><\/p>\n