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Tenki no Ko - Makoto Shinkai's New Movie, July 2019

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Official website: 映画『天気の子』公式サイト


Tenki no Ko - Weathering with You​

Moetron News - Makoto Shinkai's new anime film "Tenki no Ko"...

Makoto Shinkai's new anime film "Tenki no Ko" (Weathering with You) will be released in Japanese theaters July 19th, 2019.
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  • Director, Script: Makoto Shinkai
  • Character Designer: Masayoshi Tanaka
  • Animation Supervisor: Atsushi Tamura
  • Background Art Director: Hiroshi Takiguchi
  • Studio: CoMix Wave
-Cast-
  • Kotaro Daigo
  • Nana Mori
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Makoto Shinkai's New Movie 'Tenki no Ko' Announced

An official website has launched and announced a new movie directed by Makoto Shinkai (Kimi no Na wa.). Titled Tenki no Ko (Weathering With You), the movie will premiere on Japanese theaters in July 19, 2019.

Synopsis
The movie is about a boy and a girl get their destiny messed around during the era when the balance of the weather gets messy. Hotaka Morisaki, a high school student who ran out of the house in a solitary island in Japan, met Hina Amano, a girl with a mysterious power who can make the weather sunny just by "praying" in Tokyo.
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https://soranews24.com/2018/12/13/y...film-reveals-title-plot-details-release-date/

SoraNews24 has some more info. Here are selected quotes:

Synopsis:

Titled Tenki no Ko ("Children of the Weather") in Japanese, and with the official English title of Weathering with You, the story begins when first-year high school boy Hodaka Morishima runs away from his home on a rural island and comes to Tokyo. Unable to find any other work, he eventually becomes a writer for a magazine focused on the occult and other mysterious rumors, and meets a girl named Haruna Amano during a rainstorm. However, after she says a short prayer, Haruna tells Hodaka "It'll stop raining now," and sure enough, it does, and the sun comes out.
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The movie's tagline is "This is the tale of a secret about the world that only she and I know."

Written in kanji, Haruna's family name, Amano, is 天野, and thus shares its first character with 天気/tenki ("weather"). Interestingly, it's also the first kanji in Amaterasu (天照), goddess of the sun and the most important deity in the Shinto faith, while the first kanji of Haruna's given name itself, 陽, means "sun." It also seems significant that the film's story synopsis mentions that Haruna lives with her little brother, and that Amaterasu's younger brother is the storm god Susanoo, another member of the Shinto pantheon with a connection to the weather. The poster also shows either multiple dragons or a single multi-headed serpent flying around the floating paradise, bringing to mind the Yamata no Orochi from Japanese myth
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Inspiration:

As for the mysterious and compelling image of a girl flying towards a grassy green field atop a cloud, the spark of inspiration came to Shinkai way back in the summer of 2016, when he was running around to various theaters and press conferences doing promotions for Your Name. "It was so hot that summer. At one point, I looked up in the sky and saw a huge cumulonimbus cloud, and I though how nice it would be to be relaxing in a field on top of it. That's where the visual image came from, and that's when I thought I'd like to do a story about the sky."
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The movie's official Twitter account has been established today, and with it we have some screenshots. Auto-translated captions in quotes.



[ ☔️ First ban cut ①☀️] #醍醐虎汰朗 Mr. Shichioka serve the Voice. The high school student who ran away from the remote island will live in a small editorial production in Tokyo. #天気の子 #新海誠
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[ ☔️ First ban cut ②☀️] #森七菜 Hina who serves the voice. There was a mysterious power in the girl that Shichioka met. You can make the sky clear by praying. #天気の子 #新海誠
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[ ☔️ First ban cut ③☀️] The rain continues to shake every day. "Hey, it's going to clear up now" in the Rift of the rain cloud, a slight peep blue sky. The streets of Tokyo are shining beautifully in the sun. #天気の子 #新海誠 #醍醐虎汰朗 #森七菜
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EDIT: Better translations can be found here:

Makoto Shinkai's New Film Weathering With You Unveils Three Scene Visuals
 
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I hope hollywood actually gives it a wide release instead of just acting really insecure and deciding to make a live action adaptation so they can prove that they're better than animation.
 
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North American release will be handled by GKIDS.





https://gkids.com/films/weathering-with-you/


Weathering With You
May 23, 2019
A film by Makoto Shinkai
Japan, 2020
GKIDS proudly presents the highly-anticipated new film from director Makoto Shinkai and producer Genki Kawamura, the creative team behind the critically-acclaimed, global smash hit Your Name. The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodoka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if to suggest his future. He lives his days in isolation, but finally finds work as a writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then one day, Hodoka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky…



Coming to Theaters Early 2020
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August 21 2019 Indonesian Premiere
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    • (Pic from Encore Film Indonesia's cover.)

    Extremely good news for Indonesian viewers: Encore will premiere the film in Indonesia on 21 August 2019, only one month after the Japanese premiere on July.

    Encore Film Sets the Premiere date for Makoto Shinkai's "Weathering with You" in Indonesia - The Indonesian Anime Times

    When small-town high schooler Hodaka Morishima makes a go at living on his own in Tokyo for the first time, it isn't long before he finds steady work writing for a local magazine focused on all things strange and supernatural — but the most interesting thing happening in the boy's life is the unusual weather. Rain's common enough in the city that at first, no one makes much of the recent torrential showers that never seem to end, but unbeknownst to nearly everyone, a young girl named Hina Amano who has the ability to control the weather walks among them.
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    • Oh, it's a film from the same guy who produced Your Name. I very much enjoyed that when I saw it, so here's hoping it gets a cinematic release in Australia as well as the North American one - although odds are us/europe shall just get the NA release :p
     
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    English subtitled trailer from GKIDS.



    Also, reviews have been appearing as well as some reactions from people that have seen it, and the general air seems positive.
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    Seems the male protagonist ends up working for a mafia organisation of some sort, going by the last 30s or so of that trailer. I do wonder what the twist reveal shall be this time regarding the girl's supernatural 'clear the rainclouds' power, seeing as Your Name had time-travel as the link between the two protagonist.
     
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    ARBITRACOM's Review.


    I watched it twice; two days ago with my sister, and today by myself.

    In essence, a very good movie, a very Shinkai story. As usual, amazing visuals and soundtrack. Worth watching, and worth watching twice.

    9/10.

    Animated Tokyo looks amazing as usual, as does the rest of the movie's scenery and animation and down to the smallest details, and the otherworldly elements of the movie are awe-inspiring to behold. The characters are good, and I find the supporting characters particularly very good and effective.

    It does have its issues, namely that I think the story especially nearing the end is not as neat and tight as Kimi no Na Wa had been. I thought for some time on this matter and particularly on the second viewing, but in the end it is not as big as a problem as I thought it was. It is still a story that is funny, touching, sad, wonderful, and at times, can be terrifying, a story very much worth the price of admission.

    Now on to spoiler territory.

    First of all, yes, Natsumi is best girl!


    "Terrifying" is not a common adjective when describing Shinkai's movies. Some elements, for example the monsters in Children Who Chase Lost Voices, can be rather creepy and terrifying. But touching, tragic, sad, these are all apt and more common. But it is this movie that made me feel true spine-chilling dread.

    I think we now have our taste of what a Makoto Shinkai kaiju movie would be like.

    That shot     where the cloud-dragons descend, in a blink of an eye, on Tokyo in the end of the movie, heralding the three-year rain. Earlier, when the cloud-dragon emerged from the cloud-waves and swallowed Hodaka. The water amalgamations just hovering there, with eerie whalesong in the air as it glistens under the sun. The outer space shot of the dark storm clouds in the atmosphere.

    I love it. It is eerily terrifying, evoking a sense of majestic horror and wonder, in a subtler way but just as terrifying if not more so as King of the Monsters.

    I do think this movie suffer somewhat for being in the shadow of Kimi no Na Wa. Some similarities are unavoidable. But Shinkai knows exactly the stories he's going for - that of the the individual, personal struggles set against a vast world and its uncaring, indifferent, sometimes pernicious structural forces. In the end, Weathering With You triumphed with its distinctiveness, not perfectly, but still a worthy successor to Kimi no Na Wa, and a worthy addition to Shinkai's filmography.

    I love it. It is a treasured one.
     
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    Shall be seeing this tomorrow with @Thauma and a few others, and I'm looking forward to it. Might watch Your Name tonight as prep, seeing as it's on Netflix now, heh.
     
    So I've just finished watching the movie and I can say the atmosphere within the theater was an eager anticipation of watching the film since nearly 200 theaters are showing it in the Philippines with IMAX screens ready to be shown to those who want a crisp HD experience. This film was eagerly anticipated since it was all over Philippine social media and I can see it sold tickets very well. Aside from that I can say it an excellent movie and worth the 280 pesos ($ 5.38) I spent in watching because no I would spend 480 pesos ($ 9.22) on a student's budget with savings.
     
    Whoops, forgot to post my thoughts and now it's been a week, so the entire thing's blurred in my mind :p

    The film was quite enjoyable, I felt, and did a good job of selling the vibe of a country kid overwhelmed by the big city, as well as the general gloominess of Tokyo in constant rain - only to become cheerful, bright and happy when the sunshine arrived. Supernatural elements were present in it, alongside a few cameo from prior works by the film director, and I felt they were incorporated pretty well overall.

    So now Tokyo's a sodden ruin, flooded by constant rain over three years, I have to wonder what future Shinkai films in the setting shall be like. The cameo of the Your Name cast implies they're in the same setting, so would future films cameo a flooded Tokyo?
     
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