Director: Shinkai Makoto
Screenplay: Clark Cheng, Shinkai Makoto
Supervising Animator: Andō Masashi
Animation: Masoyashi Tanaka
Music: Radwimps
Voice Cast: Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Kamishiraishi Mone, Ryô Narita, Yuki Aoi, Shimazaki Nogunaba, Ishikawa Kaito
Studio: CoMix Wave
Production: Toho
Distribution:
Eurozoom
22 rue La Fayette
75009 PARIS
France
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Fax: 0033 1 42 93 71 99
Mail: [email protected]
www.eurozoom.fr
Year: 2016
Screening: 2017
DCP, Color, 106 min, OV Japanese with French subtitles
Mitsuha, an adolescent stuck in a traditional family, dreams of leaving her natives mountains to discover Tokyo’s vibrant life. She could have not imagined such urban experience being in the shoes of…Taki, a secondary school boy from Tokyo, quite busy between his small job at an Italian restaurant and his many friends. In her dreams, Mitsuha sees herself literally propelled into the young boy to such extent she thinks it is reality... All changes radically when she realizes Taki also dreams of living in the mountains, in a traditional family…, being in the shoes of a girl. A strange relationship starts between their bodies, of which they mutually take possession.
“I see how the world depicted by Shinkai Makoto is reflecting the mind of today youth in Japan. Technological progress, fears and expectations of future, nostalgia of past, heroes living adventures in comic strips where beautiful love stories take place: all this echoes within us; we subscribe to it with the illusion it is ourselves, but when we face reality we find there is a stranger… I see Shinkai Makoto as a modern poet whose words and brush are a comic strip.” Iwai Shunji
