Seventeen-year-old Suzume lives a quiet life on Kyushu Island, until she discovers a mysterious door standing in some ruins outside town. Suspicious objects appearing in films are best ignored, however – especially if they are guarded by a cute little animal… Makoto Shinkai’s fantasy tale about a catastrophe of unprecedented proportions was inspired by the tough experience of the Japanese tragedy in 2011. The film combines a disaster of epic proportions with a quirky, almost mischievous coming-of-age drama. After the successes of Belle at Cannes and Inu-Oh in Venice, this year Suzume brought Japanese animation back to the Berlinale, where it was shown in the main competition and immediately earned a reputation as the anime event of the year.
Martin Horyna
122 min / Color, DCP
Director Makoto Shinkai
/ Screenplay Makoto Shinkai
/ Dir. of Photography Ryôsuke Tsuda
/ Music Kazuma Jinnnouchi, Radwimps
/ Sound Krystal Holmes
/ Editor Makoto Shinkai
/ Art Director Takumi Tanji
/ Producer Genki Kawamura
/ Production STORY inc., CoMix Wave Films, Sony Pictures Entertainment
/ Sales Toho Co., Ltd.
/ Distributor Falcon a.s.
Makoto Shinkai (1973, Koumi, Japan). Selected filmography: 5 Centimeters per Second (Bjósoku 5 centimeter, 2007), The Garden of Words (Kotonoha no niwa, 2013, medium-length), Your Name. (Kimi no na wa., 2016), Weathering with You (Tenki no ko, 2019), Suzume (2022).
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