Suzume, 2023. Directed by Makoto Shinkai Starring Nanoka Hara, Hokuto Matsumura, Eri Fukatsu, Kôshirô Matsumoto, Shôta Sometani, Sairi Itô, Kotone Hanase, Kana Hanazawa, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Ann Yamane, Akari Miura, and Aimi Terakawa SYNOPSIS: As the skies turn red and the planet trembles, Japan stands on the brink of disaster. However, a determined teenager named Suzume […]
Makoto Shinkai’s Suzume gets an English dub trailer
Crunchyroll has released an English dub trailer for Suzume, the anime fantasy adventure from writer-director Makoto Shinkai (Your Name, Weathering With You). The film follows Suzume, a teenager who can supernatural forces, as she sets out to close the mysterious doors when are appearing across Japan, spreading disaster and chaos. Watch the trailer below… On […]
Movie Review – Weathering With You (2019)
Weathering With You, 2019. Directed by Makoto Shinkai. Featuring the vice talents of Kotaro Daigo, Nana Mori, Shun Oguri, Sakura Kiryu and Tsubasa Honda. SYNOPSIS: A teenager runs away from home and befriends a young woman who has the ability to control the weather. Makoto Shinkai made one of the best animated movies of the […]
Makoto Shinkai’s Weathering With You gets a new trailer
Ahead of its release this January, a new trailer has arrived online for director Makoto Shinkai’s (Your Name) hotly-anticipated new anime feature Weathering With You; watch it here… The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and […]
Your Name director’s new film Weathering With You picked up for U.S. distribution
GKIDS has announced that it has acquired the North American distribution rights to Weathering With You, the new feature from Makoto Shinkai, director of the hugely-successful and highly-acclaimed anime film Your Name. The official synopsis for Weathering With You reads: The summer of his high school freshman year, Hokoda runs away from his remote island […]
Movie Review – Your Name (2016)
Your Name, 2016. Directed by Makoto Shinkai. Featuring the voice talents of Ryunosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi and Madami Nagasawa. SYNOPSIS: A teenage boy and girl from different parts of Japan randomly wake up in each other’s bodies, with no idea why. Before watching Your Name, the only other Makoto Shinkai film I was familiar with […]
