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1. Your Name. 2016 1h 46m. 8.4 (326K) Rate. 81 Metascore. Two teenagers share a profound, magical connection upon discovering they are swapping bodies. Things manage to become even more complicated when the boy and girl decide to meet in person. Director Makoto Shinkai Stars Ryunosuke Kamiki Mone Kamishiraishi Ryo Narita. 2. Suzume. 2022 2h 2m PG.
- Kimi no Na wa. (Your Name.) MAL Rated 9.38, Ranked #1 | Aired Summer 2016. Kimi no Na wa recorded a mega hit in 2016. A girl in countryside and a guy living in Tokyo realize that their bodies and minds sometimes happen to be exchanged while they're dreaming.
- Kotonoha no Niwa (The Garden of Words) MAL Rated 8.35, Ranked #188 | Aired Spring 2013. If just looking at these pics dazzles you, then you must watch the film in order to appreciate it in its whole glory and beauty.
- Byousoku 5 Centimeter (5 Centimeters per Second) MAL Rated 8.10, Ranked #414 | Aired Winter 2007. Probably one of the saddest Shinkai Makoto's works, this is a story about first love and the distance between people that is growing larger and larger every second, or more precisely, 5 centimeters per second.
- Kumo no Mukou, Yakusoku no Basho (The Place Promised in Our Early Days) MAL Rated 7.89, Ranked #694 | Aired Fall 2004. This is a sci-fi and military anime film about an alternate reality and a mysterious tower related to a boy and girl.
- The Place Promised in Our Early Days
- Voices of A Distant Star
- Children Who Chase Lost Voices
- Weathering with You
- The Garden of Words
- 5 Centimeters Per Second
- Your Name
The Place Promised In Our Early Daysis Shinkai's first feature-length film. Set in an alternate history version of Japan with a number of fantasy and sci-fi twists, three students work together to build an aircraft that they plan to use to visit a mysterious tower on the other side of an uncrossable border. With lofty romance and an abundance of su...
Voices of a Distant Star is usually referred to as Shinkai's first major anime, given that he had only worked on very short projects before it. Although Voices of a Distant Star is itself a short anime, coming in at only 25 minutes, the project is on a totally different level of production compared to Shinkai's prior work. Present here are Shinkai'...
Children Who ChaseLost Voices is one of Shinkai's most overtly fantastical films. Although much of his work deals with supernatural elements, such as those present in Your Name and Weathering With You, the surreal flair is usually moderated with an urban realism that grounds the setting. That element is missing from Children Who Chase Lost Voices, ...
Weathering With You is Shinkai's most recent film, and a spiritual successor of sorts to the 2016 mega-hit Your Name. Comparisons between the two films are frequent, largely on account of their similar aesthetics, themes, and optimistic tones. Perhaps because of their similarity, Weathering With You didn't enjoy the same degree of critical and comm...
The Garden of Words is a short love story situated between 5 Centimeters Per Second and Your Name. Its shorter runtime doesn't allow it to have quite the dramatic ambition that some other fan-favorites do, but the anime's availability on Netflix has given it more exposurethan it probably would have received otherwise. It works nicely despite being ...
For most people, 5 Centimeters Per Second is the movie that put Shinkai on the radar of the world's anime fans. Clearly the product of a more experienced filmmaker, 5 Centimeters Per Secondis far more competent and confidently produced than the director's previous works. Shinkai's trademark background art gets to truly shine for the first time, cha...
2016's Your Name became a worldwide phenomenon. Winning nearly universal critical acclaim, the movie dominated the Japanese box office, rapidly rising to becomeone of the best-performing anime films in the history of Japanese cinema. Its international success was remarkable as well, with English-speaking critics showering Shinkai with praise, sugge...
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Apr 1, 2024 · With Makoto Shinkai’s films hitting the Criterion Channel, we spun through the anime director’s major works and ranked them all, from ‘Voices of a Distant Star’ to ‘Your Name’ and...
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1. The Place Promised in Our Early Days. 2004 1h 30m TV-PG. 6.9 (15K) Rate. In an alternate postwar timeline, Japan is divided into the Union-controlled North and the US-controlled South. Director Makoto Shinkai Yoshio Suzuki Stars Hidetaka Yoshioka Masato Hagiwara Yuka Nanri.
Oct 21, 2022 · Suzume no Tojimari (2022) Makoto Shinkai announced that a new film will be released in November 2022 entitled Suzume no Tojimari, another fantasy film that fans will definitely watch out...
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