Tokyo-based anime production company Studio Ponoc has released a 90-second full trailer for its upcoming omnibus film Chiisana Eiyu - Kani to Tamago to Toumei Ningen (Modest Heroes - Crab, Egg, and Invisible Man) with some character voices. The three-episode film will be released as the first installment of the company's new "Ponoc Short Films Theater" project in Japan on August 24, 2018.  

"Chiisana Eiyu - Kani to Tamago to Toumei Ningen"

"Kanini to Kanino/Kanini & Kanino" (15 minutes)

 Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi (Mary and The Witch's Flower)

 CV: Fumino Kimura, Rio Suzuki

 Music: Takatsugu Muramatsu (Mary and The Witch's Flower)

 - Yonebayashi's first original story about a great adventure fantasy by the two crab brothers to find their missing father.

"Samurai Egg/Life Ain't Gonna Loose" (15 minutes)

 Director: Yoshiyuki Momose (GHIBLIES episode2) 

 CV: Machiko Ono, Souta Shinohara, Kenta Sakaguchi

 Music: Masanori Shimada 

 - A heart-touching human drama about love between a boy who has an egg allergy and his mother.

"Toumei Ningen/Invisible" (14 minutes)

 Director: Akihiko Yamashita (The Borrower Arrietty animation director)  

 CV: Joe Odagiri (Kamen Rider Kuuga), Min Tanaka 

 Music: Yasutaka Tanaka (Perfume, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu producer)

 - A spectacle action about a lonely battle of an invisible man.

Studio Ponoc's founder Yoshiaki Nishimura serves as producer for all three episodes. 33-year-old singer/

fashion model Kaela Kimura performs the whole film's ED theme song "Chiisana Eiyu," which you can hear

in the end of the trailer.

90-second full trailer

30-second trailer

Poster visual

『ちいさな英雄』３作品の音楽も決定！「カニーニとカニーノ」の音楽に「#メアリ」の #村松崇継 が米林監督と３度目のタッグ。「サムライエッグ」は日本ポップス音楽を牽引する #島田昌典 が映画音楽に初挑戦！「透明人間」は、絶対の存在感を有する音楽プロデューサー #中田ヤスタカ が手がけます。 pic.twitter.com/aFsZ18uNbL

— スタジオポノック (@StudioPonoc) 2018年6月17日

Voice cast

『#ちいさな英雄―カニとタマゴと透明人間―』の3作品の声の出演者決定！「カニーニとカニーノ」（#米林宏昌監督）#木村文乃、#鈴木梨央。「サムライエッグ」（#百瀬義行監督）#尾野真千子、#篠原湊大、#坂口健太郎。「透明人間」（#山下明彦監督）#オダギリジョー、#田中泯。8月24日全国公開！ pic.twitter.com/uHlcPblA1L

— スタジオポノック (@StudioPonoc) 2018年6月17日

Kaela Kimura

エンディングテーマは、#木村カエラ さんによる「#ちいさな英雄」！夏本番を牽引するにふさわしく、爽快で伸びやかに本作のエンディングテーマを歌い上げます。映画の予告編では、本曲も初解禁！今年の夏を牽引する歌声と共に映画も盛り上げていきます！#ポノック短編劇場 https://t.co/zod8rrykC4 pic.twitter.com/JQaYqPTTDc

— スタジオポノック (@StudioPonoc) 2018年7月4日

Studio Ponoc was established by ex-Ghibli producer Yoshiaki Nishimura on April 15, 2015. Nishimura, who

served as the producer for Isao Takahata's The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013) and Yonebayashi's When

Marnie Was There (2014), left Studio Ghibli at the same time with Yonebayashi in the end of 2014. Many of

ex-Ghibli animators and staff have reportedly joined the studio.

The studio's first feature film Mary and the Witch's Flower based on British novelist Mary Stewart's children

novel The Little Broomstick was released in Japan in July 2017 and made 3.29 billion yen from its domestic run.

Source: "Chiisana Eiyu - Kani to Tamago to Toumei Ningen" official website

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