It premièred in competition for the Golden Bear at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival on February 13, 2011[1] before its general release in France by StudioCanal on July 20.

[9] In Japan, it is the fourth feature directed by Ocelot in the Ghibli Museum Library, and was shown at the 2012 Tokyo International Anime Fair,[10] and released in June 2012.

Before each story, the boy and the girl decide, in accordance with the old technician, they will play the characters in the story they will interpret, they also choose a time and a country as well as costumes through documentation the technician brings them, and make clothing and accessories with a computer-controlled machine.

She is not pleased, and tricks him into transforming in front of her, then steals the gold necklace that will make him turn back into a human.

Since Tijean overcame the three monsters without killing them, he is deemed unworthy to marry the princess and is sentenced to death via the "big chopper".

One day a stranger arrives at the city and after discovering this sinister act he resolves to break this cycle of killing.

A young boy who enjoys playing the tam-tam drums every day is chased away by the villagers who believe he is noisy and useless.

The old man agrees to let the boy play on the precious instrument, but he can not activate its powers until after a long and difficult training.

They both make a bet that the boy who rides the nation's talking horse cannot be made to lie.