A new teaser trailer for the anime film A New Dawn has been released, providing a fresh look at its beautiful illustration-come-to-life aesthetic and characters.

It was also revealed that the movie is opening in Japan on March 6, 2026 JST.

A New Dawn (Hanarokusho ga Akeru Hi ni) was originally scheduled for a 2025 release, with a delay announced in May. It’s a French-Japanese co-production that’s the feature director debut of Yoshitoshi Shinomiya, who has past credits that range from Makoto Shinkai‘s The Garden of Words (poster illustrator) and Your Name (recollection scene key animator and unit director) to Sunao Katabuchi‘s In This Corner of the World (watercolor painter et al.) and Takayuki Hirao‘s Pompo the Cinephile (art board artist). 

The film was a part of the 77th Cannes Film Festival’s 2024 Annecy Animation Showcase. Cannes’s description of the premise reads:

The Obinata Fireworks Shop factory is getting prepared for an administrative action for confiscation tomorrow. It has been six years since Keitaro has been holed up in a closed-down factory creating fireworks by himself, chasing after an illusion of his father who vanished. It is a story about three young people who overcome the extreme weather conditions, disasters and environmental problems imposed on them and establish their own identities.

Shinomiya’s previous directorial credits include short-form work like Tokino Kousa and the Chiaki Mayumura music video “Boukentai ~Heroes of the old forest~.”

Staff

• Director, scriptwriter, and creator: Yoshitoshi Shinomiya
• Character designer: Minakata Laboratory’s Utsushita (Tengoku Daimakyo)
• Animation director: Shohei Hamaguchi 
• Background art: Akiko Majima (Your Name co-background art director)
• Music composer: Shuta Hasunuma
• Animation production: Asmik Ace, Studio Outrigger, and Miyu Productions 
• Production: A NEW DAWN Film Partners
• Distribution: Asmik Ace

Cast

• Riku Hagiwara as Keitaro Obinata
• Kotone Furukawa as Kaoru
• Miyu Irino as Sentaro Obinata
• Takashi Okabe as Eitaro Obinata

Source: Asmik Ace YouTube channel