One of Japan’s most commercially successful and highly acclaimed animators, Shinkai Makoto has been called a successor to anime titan Miyazaki Hayao. Known for his mix of photo-realistic visuals and ...
"17-year-old Suzume's journey begins in a quiet town in Kyushu when she encounters a young man who tells her, "I'm looking for a door." What Suzume finds is a single weathered door standing upright in ...
The anime maestro opens up about how his YA fantasy adventure film grapples with the 2011 earthquake and tsunami and making his most overt tribute to Hayao Miyazaki to date. By Patrick Brzeski Asia ...
The massive 2011 earthquake in Japan inspired Shinkai to make this coming-of-age drama, suffused with surprising humor. “With that earthquake, that peaceful daily life ended suddenly, and it made me ...
EXCLUSIVE: Crunchyroll is rolling out a one-day-only private pop-up installation “Makoto Shinkai: A Journey from Voices of a Distant Star through Suzume,” which will explore the complete works of ...
Suzume Iwato lives with her aunt in a quiet port town in Kyushu, Japan. One day, on her way to school, she runs into a young man looking for a door and follows him to a ruin in the mountains. Standing ...
A TIFFCOM seminar on Thursday demonstrated both a sense of incredulity that Japanese animation “Suzume” could have enjoyed such wide international success and conveyed the depth of passionate ...
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