Lost Star - Gou

Lost Star - Gou (ロストスター・ゴウ, lit. Lost Star - New), also known in English as Tale of a Lost Star, is a 2018 Japanese anime fantasy film directed by Naoko Yamada and produced by Kyoto Animation. It is based on the 2003 Tatsuya Hironaka film Lost Star and was made to celebrate the film's fifteenth anniversary. Hironaka himself served as a creative consultant on the feature as did one of the original film's co-writers Natsuko Takahashi. The film follows the story of the original film fairly closely, though there are various plot alterations, and the film instead takes place in Japan rather than in Canada like the original.

Lost Star - Gou was released to theaters in Japan by Toho on November 17, 2018, and was later released in the United States in select theaters by Universal Pictures on March 7, 2019 before being released on VOD the next day. Like the original film, reviews were generally positive, and some people even considered it to be an improvement on the original. The film grossed a total of $2 million at the box office.

Plot
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Additional Voices

 * Megan Taylor Harvey
 * Joe Ochman
 * Tom Kenny
 * Wayne Grayson
 * Stephanie Sheh
 * Meredith Zeitlin
 * Michael Sinterniklaas
 * Chris Tergliafera
 * Eric Bauza
 * Christine Marie Cabanos
 * Lisa Ortiz

Release
Lost Star - Gou was released in Japan by Toho Co. on November 17, 2018. During it's Japanese theatrical run, the film grossed ¥150 million at the box office. Internationally, Universal Pictures, who previously handled the US distribution of the original Lost Star under Focus Features, acquired the US and Canadian distribution rights to Lost Star - Gou and released it to select theaters on March 7, 2019 with an English dub produced by NYAV Post and the next day it was released to VOD platforms. Universal later released the film on DVD and Blu-ray on July 16, 2019. In the United Kingdom, Entertainment One, the owner of the Canadian distribution rights to the original after acquiring Alliance Atlantis' successor, Alliance Films, released the English dub on DVD through Universal Pictures UK on September 9, 2019. Madman Entertainment licensed the film for release in Australia and released the film on DVD and Blu-ray on November 13, 2019.