XxxHolic: A Midsummer Night's Dream
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| Directed by | Tsutomu Mizushima |
| Screenplay by | Jun'ichi Fujisaku Yoshiki Sakurai |
| Story by | Tsutomu Mizushima |
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XxxHolic by CLAMP |
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Jun Fukuyama Sayaka Ohara |
| Music by | Tsuneyoshi Saito |
| Cinematography | Hisashi Ezura |
| Edited by | Taeko Hamauzu |
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| Distributed by | Shochiku |
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60 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
xxxHolic: A Midsummer Night's Dream (劇場版 ×××HOLiC 真夏ノ夜ノ夢 Gekijōban Horikku: Manatsu no Yo no Yume?) is an hour-long anime film by Production I.G based on the Young Magazine manga xxxHolic by Clamp, though it is an original story set within that of the manga rather than an adaptation of any part of it. It opened in Japan on August 20, 2005 as the A movie of a double bill with the Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle film Tsubasa Chronicle: The Princess of the Birdcage Kingdom, also by Production I.G (unlike the Tsubasa Chronicle television series) and originally based on a Clamp manga. The film is the first motion picture and the first voiced work based on the manga.
A woman comes to Yūko to ask for assistance because her key (an elaborate golden artifact) won't unlock her mansion. Coincidentally, Yūko receives an invitation to the same mansion. She takes Watanuki and Dōmeki along with her to solve the mystery. When they reach the place, a grand mansion with a tower, they are able to enter without trouble, but they discover they aren't the only people there. Many collectors were invited to what they believe to be some kind of auction that would enable to complete their collections. Watanuki feels that something dangerous is happening, as strange events take place at night and the organizer of the auction doesn't present himself.
When collectors start disappearing one by one, Watanuki and Dōmeki penetrate the depths of the mansion. Browsing through a variety of collections in the rooms of the mansion, among them a room full of barbed wire, a room full of chains, and a room full of masks, they find out that the captured collectors are kept in what looks like a collection of paintings. They are joined by Yūko to meet the Collector, a ghost-like entity who seeks to have the greatest collection of anything ever. The Collector summons apparitions against them, and Watanuki and Dōmeki have to fight them, while Ichihara confronts the Collector himself. When it seems that she has been captured by the Collector, she reveals the true reason of his desire to collect, an old promise made to a little girl a long time ago. The revelation makes the mansion disappear, and they appear outside of a much smaller house, where the Collector admiringly re-encounters the girl, now an old lady in a wheelchair, who was actually the woman who hired Yūko.
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