Made in celebration of the former company's 40th anniversary, the trilogy of films were directed by Shinpei Miyashita and written by Kaeko Hayafune and Hiroyuki Kawasaki.

[6] The first film, A Flying Princess and a Secret Island (空とぶ姫と秘密の島, Sora Tobu Hime to Himitsu no Shima), was released in Japan on July 4, 2015, by Aeon Entertainment.

[13][14] On 8 August 2021, an Indian Kids TV channel ETV Bal Bharat premiered Sinbad (the compilation film), dubbed in 12 different languages (audio feeds): English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi, Malayalam, Kannada, Assamese, Gujarati and Odia.

Rebecca Silverman of Anime News Network reviewed all three films, describing them as family-friendly and a "magical, beautiful story about exploration and finding where you belong," noting the homages to the original story of Sinbad the Sailor in One Thousand and One Nights, and praised the designs of creatures, background art, and voice casts, and called the ending of Night at High Noon and the Wonder Gate more bittersweet than "most American family films."

She criticized Galip's character for being underdeveloped and argued that "Ali can be really annoying.