Charades Boards ‘Your Name’ Artist Yoshitoshi Shinomiya’s Feature Debut ‘A New Dawn’ (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

Charades, the thriving sales company behind the Oscar-nominated “Flow” and “Memoir of a Snail,” has boarded “A New Dawn,” the promising feature debut of Yoshitoshi Shinomiya, the anime artist of Japanese box office smash hit “Your Name.” Inspired by the changing Japanese landscape after the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, “A New Dawn” unwinds inside an inactive fireworks factory that is about to go into administrative action.

For the past four years, young Keitaro has lived inside the derelict structure, chasing the illusion of a father who vanished years before.

The location used to be nestled in a lush forest, but the surrounding area has recently been redeveloped by the city, which covered the land with solar panels.

Only a scant bit of greenery around the factory remains amongst the sea of panels. With the end of his makeshift home just around the corner, Keitaro commits to launching a firework his father left behind before the building is repossessed.