Weathering with You is a 2019 Japanese animated romantic fantasy film written and directed by Makoto Shinkai, produced by CoMix Wave Films and distributed by Toho. A second installment of Shinkai's Di
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Makoto Shinkai, the film's director, in Moscow (2013)
The second-generation Sarubia Maru [ja] on the Tokyo—Kōzu-shima route that Hodaka took on his way to Tokyo
In the foreground: the abandoned Yoyogi Kaikan [ja] building that appears in the film. The demolition of the building was completed in January 2020 and it no longer exists. Note that the rooftop shrine in this film is fictional. Back: the NTT DoCoMo Yoyogi Building (Docomo Tower), which frequently appears in Shinkai's films.
Suzume is a 2022 Japanese animated coming-of-age fantasy adventure film written and directed by Makoto Shinkai. The third and final installment of Shinkai's Disaster trilogy, following Your Name and W
Weathering with You
…produced by CoMix Wave Films and distributed by Toho. A second installment of Shinkai's Disaster trilogy, following Your Name (2016) and followed by Suzume (2022), the film follows a 16-year-old high school boy, Hodaka Morishima, who runs away from his troubled rural home to Tokyo, and later befriends Hina…
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The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami served as an influence for the film. The stranded catamaran Hamayuri [ja] in this aerial image taken in Ōtsuchi, Iwate, became the prototype of the stranded vessel appearing in the afterlife scene.
A replica of the chair featured in Suzume, displayed at a Kinokuniya in Shinjuku
Promotional standee of the door featured in the film