Synopsis for the Feature Length Animated Film Maimai Shinko To Sennen No Mahô (Mai Mai Miracle , Mai Mai Shinko and the Millennium-Old Magic), Watch Video

Sumptuously animated film about friendship and the passing of childhood evokes a happy/sad nostalgia for the endless days of summer, and is a sensitive portrayal of a young girl at the transition between childhood and adult.

Shinko, a third-grade elementary school student, loves to imagine and daydream about the world of one thousand years ago. Her fantasies travel far into the days of the Heian Period (794-1185).... One day, a girl called Kiiko transfers from Tokyo and joins Shinko's class, where they become good friends. Before long, the two of them become engulfed in a strange incident of one thousand years ago...

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