Weathering with You (2019)

Original title

天気の子

Directed by

Makoto Shinkai

Genre

fantasy film, anime film, supernatural anime

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 52m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 2,651 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A teenage boy runs away from his rural home to Tokyo and meets a girl who can control the weather. They form a bond as he tries to help her use her power.

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What happens

Weathering with You (Japanese: 天気の子, Hepburn: Tenki no Ko; lit. 'Child of Weather') 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 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 Amano, an orphaned girl who has the ability to control the weather. It features the voices of Kotaro Daigo and Nana Mori, with animation direction by Atsushi Tamura, character design by Masayoshi Tanaka, and its orchestral score and soundtrack composed by Radwimps; the latter two previously collaborated with Shinkai on Your Name (2016). A light novel of the same name, also written by Shinkai, was published a day prior to the film's premiere, while a manga adaptation was serialized in Monthly Afternoon on July 25, 2019. Weathering with You was theatrically released in conventional, IMAX, and 4DX theaters in Japan on July 19, 2019, and was released in the United States on January 17, 2020. It received positive reviews from critics, with praise for the animation, screenplay, music, visuals, and emotional weight. The film grossed US$193.8 million worldwide, becoming the highest grossing Japanese film of 2019 and the eleventh highest-grossing Japanese film of all time, unadjusted for inflation. The film won a number of awards, including being selected as the Japanese entry for Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, but was not nominated. It received four Annie Award nominations, including for Best Independent Animated Feature, tying Spirited Away, Millennium Actress, (both 2001) and Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2005) for the second-joint most nominations for an anime film at the Annies, behind Ghost in the Shell (1995) and then Belle (2021) with five. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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