Suzume no Tojimari will hit Japanese theaters on November 11, 2022.
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Original Story / Screenplay / Director: Makoto Shinkai
Character Design: Masayoshi Tanaka
Animation Director: Kenichi Tsuchiya
Art Director: Takumi Tanji
Synopsis
On the other side of the door, was time in its entirety—
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 midst of ruins as though it was shielded from whatever catastrophe struck. Seemingly mesmerized by its power, Suzume reaches for the knob…
Doors begin to open one after another all across Japan, unleashing destruction upon any who are near. Suzume must close these portals to prevent further disaster.
The stars The sunset The morning sky
Within that realm, it was as though all time had melted together in the sky—
Drawn in by this mysterious door, Suzume’s journey is about to begin.
I share my experience of watching Weathering With You (Tenki no ko) in theater and talk about how it is different from You Name (Kimi on na wa) and yet similar. The evolution of Makoto Shinkai’s style and the sound of RADWIMPS made the film a wonderful experience.
One thing I find fascinating about learning new languages is that you are learning to look at the world with new eyes.
One thing I love about learning Japanese is that it teaches me to look at the world in a more poetic way.
An example?
Let’s take the anime movie Weathering with you, in the original japanese called 天気の子(Tenki no ko, Child of the Weather). Here the word “Weather” is expressed by the two Kanji (Chinese characters) 天気:
天 (ten)means “sky, heaven”,
気 (ki) means “spirit, soul, gas, air”;
so 天気 means something like “Heaven’s Soul” or “Spirit of the Sky”! Interesting enough, the word “spirit” comes from latin spirare, which means “to blow”; even the word Anime comes from Latin Anima, “soul, spirit”, related to Greek Anemos,“wind”.
Many people in the world have seen the soul as something light but powerful as the air and the wind. And, if you think about it, our soul seems to have its own weather: sometimes rainy, sometimes sunny, sometimes stormy.
Yes, learning new languages can change the way you look at things. It can teach you to look at the atmosphere as the soul of Heaven, and your soul as an amazing sky full of weather.
Top pic:Weathering with you (2019), Makoto Shinkai
Mitsuha Miyamizu: There’s no way we could meet. But one thing is certain. If we see each other, we’ll know. That you were the one who was inside me. That I was the one who was inside you.
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