Makoto Shinkai follows up his hit anime 'Your Name' with this meteorological meet-cute, in which a boy falls for a girl who can control the weather. In Texas, there’s a saying that goes, “If you don’t ...
TIFF: "Your Name" director Shinkai Makoto returns with a stunningly gorgeous but emotionally diluted romance about climate change. Shinkai Makoto, the fiercely idiosyncratic anime filmmaker whose long ...
Makoto Shinkai’s Weathering with You feels familiar, but foregrounds something that has always resided in his anime films: a deep and intense connection to the natural world. While not as overtly ...
Japanese animator and filmmaker Makoto Shinkai followed up the tremendous success of Your Name — the highest-grossing anime film of all time — with a new tenderhearted story of two teenagers ...
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On screen, the sight of a large city slowly sinking into the sea can’t help but conjure thoughts of climate change and environmental disaster. But “Weathering With You” is no eco-thriller along the ...
2019 saw the Japan Box Office’s highest earnings on record. And no movie contributed to those earnings more than the heartstring-tugging anime film Weathering With You. See also: Box Office: ...
Weathering With You is now playing in limited release. Theater and ticket info can be found here. For years, Makoto Shinkai has been obsessed with a singular vision: how do I capture the optimism and ...