A Midnight Rose

A Midnight Rose (堀越 愛と幸せの物語, Horikoshi: Ai no Monogatari) is a 2006 animated romance drama film based on the 1997 light novel series Horikoshi: A Tale of Love by Ryotaro Sekizawa, who co-produced and co-wrote the movie. It was directed by Munenori Nawa and co-written by David Auburn and Robert Nelson Jacobs. The film, like the light novel series, follows a hapless Horikoshi High School boy named Naoki Miyashita (Michael Angarano), who is diagnosed with ADHD and fairly antisocial until one night when he befriends Katsumi Hino (Hilary Duff), who is considered to be the princess of the class he takes, and slowly, a romance blossoms between them as they try to deal with their own internal struggles and fears along with various events happening in their lives. Dermot Mulroney, Shia LaBeouf and Dennis Hopper also lent their voices to the film.

After the release of Teen Samurai, Warner Bros. acquired the film rights to Horikoshi, and put a film adaptation into active development in 2002, and the project entered production in 2004, with the company partnering with Atmosphere Entertainment MM, The Donners' Company and later Legendary Pictures to produce the film. The animation for the film was produced by Feel in Koganei, Tokyo, Japan.

A Midnight Rose premiered in theaters in Japan on March 18, 2006 and it was later released in the United States on April 21, 2006. It received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed a worldwide total of $96.4 million against a budget of $18 million.

Plot
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Cast

 * Michael Angarano as Naoki Miyashita
 * Hilary Duff as Katsumi Hino
 * Dermot Mulroney as Atsushi Yasutake
 * Shia LaBeouf as Takeo Takayama
 * Bob Bergen as Amaya Konya
 * Mae Whitman as Yoshie Tsuchida
 * Jeff Bennett as the school director
 * Tom Kenny as the school announcer
 * Crawford Wilson, Megan Moore, Stephanie Sheh, Matthew Hill, Jennifer Hale, Steve Staley, Jeff Bennett and Sherry Lynn as the student choir
 * Crispin Freeman, Jeannie Elias, Eddie Frierson and Charlie Schlatter as the student council
 * Jason Harris Katz as a thug
 * Corey Burton as a teacher
 * Dennis Hopper as the narrator

Additional voices

 * Andrea Baker
 * Tom Fahn
 * Danny Mann
 * John Cygan
 * Mickie McGowan
 * Stephanie Sheh
 * Carrie Savage
 * Bridget Hoffman
 * Rif Hutton
 * Paul Pape
 * Joey D'Auria
 * David H. Kramer
 * Rachel Stand
 * Emily Anderson
 * Jack Angel
 * Laraine Newman
 * Philece Sampler
 * Nadia Lewis
 * Phil Hayes
 * Wendy E. Cutler
 * Michelle Ruff
 * Kate Higgins
 * Richard Epcar
 * Shawn Hoffman
 * Jonny Soloman
 * Jan Rabson

Theatrical release
After production on the film had finished, A Midnight Rose made it's theatrical debut in Japan on March 18, 2006, through the Japanese arm of Warner Bros. Subsequently, the film was released in the United States on April 21, 2006, with it's international release occuring throughout the rest of the year and early in 2007.

Home media release
On July 25, 2006, A Midnight Rose was released on DVD and HD DVD by Warner Home Video. The film's DVD release proved to be very successful, selling about 478,362 units by July 30, 2006, making it the third best selling DVD release of the week behind The Benchwarmers and Final Destination 3. The DVD release includes a behind the scenes featurette on the film's production, interviews with the voice actors, two music videos and the movie's trailer. Warner Home Video later released the film on Blu-ray on February 13, 2007.

A Japanese DVD and HD-DVD release were distributed by Bandai Visual on January 10, 2007, both of which contained the bonus features from the American DVD release, along with additional material exclusive to those releases, as well as both the Japanese and English versions of the movie.