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Shimajirō to Sora Tobu Fune 3D CG Anime Film Casts Keiko Han, Tomokazu Sugita
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The staff for film last Friday. The new cast include:
Tomokazu Sugita as the Garbiz boss who tries to stop Jin and Shimajiro from building their ship
Previously revealed cast include:
Megumi Han as Lily, a character who builds a flying ship alongside Jin
Other previously revealed cast include Minoru Inaba.
The film is billed as the franchise's first 3D CG anime film, and it will open on February 28.
The film's story centers on Jin, an inventor squirrel who lives in Greenwood, a land far beyond the sea. Rain has not come to Greenwood in a long while. To solve the land's problem, Jin decides to build a flying ship to make the rain fall, and he enlists Shimajirō's help.
Masafumi Sugiura. Uchida is performing the film's theme song "Egao no Sora" (Smiling Sky).
The original film opened last March.
Sources: Shimajirō franchise's website, The Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web
