To Every You I've Loved Before (2022)

Original title

僕が愛したすべての君へ

Directed by

Jun Matsumoto

Genre

animation, romance, science fiction

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 42m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 51 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A high school boy learns from a girl that she is his girlfriend from another parallel world. He navigates feelings across different versions of reality.

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What happens

To Every You I've Loved Before (Japanese: 僕が愛したすべての君へ, Hepburn: Boku ga Aishita Subete no Kimi e), often shortened to Bokuai (Japanese: 僕愛), is a 2022 Japanese animated film based on the novel of the same name by Yomoji Otono. Produced by Bakken Record and distributed by Toei Company, the film is directed by Jun Matsumoto from a script written by Riko Sakaguchi and stars Hio Miyazawa, Ai Hashimoto, Aju Makita, Mutsumi Tamura, Kenji Hamada, Mie Sonozaki, Tomomichi Nishimura, Fumi Hirano, Miki Mizuno, Kimiko Yo, and Tokuma Nishioka. The film follows high-school student Koyomi Takasaki meeting Kazune Takigawa, who reveals to him that he is her boyfriend in the 85th parallel world. Its companion film, To Me, the One Who Loved You, depicts an alternate version of Koyomi, named in that world as Koyomi Hidaka, and Shiori Satō who both fall in love with each other, but their parents' remarriage has led them to elope to another parallel world where they are not stepsiblings. The anime film adaptation of one of Otono's novels was announced in September 2021. Matsumoto and Sakaguchi joined the staff of the film in May 2022. Miyazawa and Hashimoto were revealed as the main cast in June 2022. Additional staff and cast were announced in August 2022. To Every You I've Loved Before had an early screening in Tokyo on September 14, 2022, and was released in Japan on October 7. The film grossed over US$1 million worldwide. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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