Starlight Promises (2018)

Original title

約束の七夜祭り

Directed by

Kazuya Murata

Genre

drama film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 02m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A teenage boy in Japan attends a seven night festival that connects the living with the afterlife. He meets other young people who are also searching for someone they have lost. The story blends traditional mythology with modern augmented reality technology.

melancholicmysteriousslow-pacedcontemplativebittersweetdreamlikelonelypoignant

What happens

Starlight Promises (Japanese: 約束の七夜祭り, Hepburn: Yakusoku no Nanaya Matsuri; transl. "The Promised Seven Night Festival") is a Japanese original net animation film produced by XFlag and Yokohama Animation Laboratory. The net film was scheduled to launch on July 7, 2018, on YouTube, but was postponed to August 3, 2018, due to the 2018 Japan floods. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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