The ‘Your Name’ and ‘Weathering with You’ director wants his new Annie Award-nominated film, about a young woman who finds herself opening a series of doors to disaster that take her on a mysterious journey, to inspire people impacted by tragedy to not give up hope.
Actor Nichole Sakura, who voices the film’s titular character, shares how summers spent as a kid in Japan provided unique insight into her role, and helping write the English dub, on Makoto Shinkai’s latest film, born of his survivor’s guilt having lived through the devastating Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011.
If you’re interested in an animated film that doesn’t come from a long-running video-game franchise, Suzume opens this week in a multiplex near you. The latest film by Makoto Shinkai is of a piece with his other films Your Name and Weathering With You, with people experiencing mystical bonds with weather phenomena