It also won the top prize at Hollywood’s Animation Is Film festival in October.Īs the film opens, teenager Hodaka Morishima comes to a rain-sodden Tokyo: he has run away from his island hometown, hoping to find more interesting life. It received a 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes, and was chosen as the Japanese submission for the International Feature Oscar - the country’s first animated candidate since Princess Mononoke in 1998. The movie is another critical and financial success, earning over ¥12.72 billion ($117 million), making it the 18th highest grossing film in Japanese history and the top grosser of 2019. Weathering with You was produced by Genki Kawamura ( Mirai, Parasyte, The Boy and the Beast) at Tokyo-based CoMix Wave Films with the 2D animation created with Toon Boom tools. It was the first animated film not directed by Hayao Miyazaki to gross more than ¥10 billion ($92 million). But none of them approached the runaway success of Your Name., which became the number one box office hit in Japan that year ($361 million) and the sixth-highest grossing film of all time there. Shinkai had already won a devoted international following for his earlier features, The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004), 5 Centimeters Per Second (2007) and The Garden of Words (2013). combined elements of a body-switching teen romcom with a profound meditation on the trauma the Japanese people are still suffering from what they call the Great East Japan Catastrophe and Westerners refer to as Fukushima. Weathering with You, which debuted earlier this year in Japan, is Makoto Shinkai’s first feature since he dazzled audiences on both sides of the Pacific with Your Name. ***This article originally appeared in the January ‘20 issue of Animation Magazine (No.
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