Shimajiro in Bookland

Shimajiro in Bookland also known as Shimajiro in Bookend is a live action animated film produced by Benesse company, Toho Animations and distributed

   by Sony Music Direct. Animation Studios. It was distributed to Megabox theaters in South Korea.

## Plot Summary

Shimajiro is drawing in the coloring book and Flappie comes over to Shimajiro's house and he scribbles the book. Shimajiro and friends gets teleported into the book, and they meet Putian a blue monkey. They go on a quest to find the magical paints. they visit the 2 Macaroon sisters to clean up graffiti and visit the feuding kingdom of Let's Iron king and Let's Tour Queen to stop the feud.

## Cast of Characters

**Shimajiro**

**Mimi-Lynne**

**Hana**

**Flappie**

**Nikki**

**Shimajiro's Mother**

**Dr. Roarson**

**Punitan**

**Tour Queen**

**White Lingling**

**Iron King**

**Black Lingling**

**2 Macaroon Sisters**

**Kicky**

## Credits

### Directed by

* Isamu Hirabayashi
* Hiroshi Kawamata

### Produced by

* Tsutomu Chuji
* Shiho Kawahara
* Yutaka Sugiyama
* Masako Nagata
* Koji Hosono
* Hiromi Mitsuhasi
* Hiroki Fujiwara
* Madoka Katsumata
* Yukari Kiso
* Takashi Nakamura
* Yoshimi Ishii

### Music by

* Daudi Joseph
* Takashi Watanabe

### Japanese Cast

* Katsuhisa Houki (voice)
* Shizuka Itoh (voice)
* Kozo Shioya (voice)
* Ayumi Yoshida (voice)
* Megumi Toda (voice)
* Marika Minase (voice)
* Hitomi Suzuki (voice)
* Eri Inagawa (voice)
* Marie Shiba (voice)
* Honoka Inoue (voice)
* Tsuyoshi Hirabayashi (voice)

### Korean Cast

 Song Young-in
 Lee Woo Lee
 Shin Jung-hoon
 Sang Woo Park

## Soundtrack

* **Child Order**
* **Wakun no Uta 2016**
* **Our Hoshino Miracle**
* **Essential Person Movie Size**
* **Nice Wonderland**
* **Friends Poncleton**
* **It's fluffy!**
* **The Important Person**
* **Iro no Uta**
* **Jurijiri Summer Activity Committee feat.**
* **Feast's Song**
* **Meromero Musimero**
* **The song**
* **Ehon no Uta**
* **Okinawa Wow!**
* **Friendship!**
* **Happy Jam Jam**
* **The Big Song**
* **Whale Song**
* **Happy Lucky Christmas**

## Studios

**The Answer Studio, DASH Co.,Ltd., Demand, DENTSU INC., TV Setouchi Broadcasting(TSC), Benesse Corporation**

**TOHO Visual Entertainment, Sony Music Direct, Megabox**

## Youtube Video

This movie was released on youtube by youtube users.

## DVD Release

This movie is released in Region 2 for Japan and UK, and Region 3 for South Korea.

**(Note on the DVD viewing: Be warned this film will not play on a region 1 DVD player. To view this movie you'll need a Region Free DVD player or dedicate your DVD player and set your DVD to Region 2 or Region 3 depending on the DVD version, and a word of warning you can set it for about 5 times before it gets region locked. You can also set it to region 2 or 3 on your Playstation 4 console or Windows 7, 8 or Windows 10 but be warned you can set it 5 times before it gets region locked.)**

**However if you live in the UK, Greenland or Europe countries or Japan you should be able to play it on a DVD player just fine.**

## Trivia

* This is the only film that Shimajiro's Father is absent from as it is likely he was either at work at the Postal Office or is on a business trip.
* Chafûrin who voiced Shimajiro's Father is absent from the film.
* The first appearance of Punitan the Blue Monkey.
* This film is also known as Shimajiro in Bookland.
* There is actually an English Dub to this film. But it hasn't been released in United States, Canada, Europe, Australia or New Zeland.
* Shimajiro in the Korean Dub version is renamed Hobi or Hobby
* Shimajiro in the Chinese Dub version is renamed Qiaohu

## External Links

[1] IMDB movie page

http://applemusic.co.kr/

[호비와 동화나라 대모험(劇場版 しまじろうのわお! しまじろうと えほんのくに, Shimajiro’s Wow! Shimajiro And The Magical Picture Book, 2016)] (applemusic.co.kr)

https://movies.yahoo.com.tw/movieinfo\_main

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