Chikyū ga Ugoita Hi

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Anime movie
title Chikyū ga Ugoita Hi
Original title 地球 が 動 い た 日
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 1997
length 75 minutes
Rod
Director Toshio Goto
idea Etsuko Kishikawa
script Taeko Ōgi
production Sōzaburō Katsura, Michiya Tanaka
music Reijirō Koroku

Chikyū ga Ugoita Hi ( Japanese 地球 が 動 い た 日 , Eng . "The day on which the earth moved") is a Japanese anime film from 1997 based on a book by Etsuko Kishikawa from 1996 ( ISBN 4-406 -02465-4 ).

The film tells the events of the Hanshin Awaji earthquake from the perspective of several children , which devastated the city of Kobe in 1995 and claimed more than 6,400 deaths.

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The twelve year old Tsuyoshi Takahashi lives in Kobe and attends the Shiokaze elementary school . Because of his ambition to go to a private middle school, he neglects, among others, his friends Kazuyuki Kato (called Kazu), who has been depressed since the death of his mother and leaves the house less and less, and Miho Sugamoto, a childhood friend he even met has a crush. When she asks him to help her with a speech for the graduation ceremony, he only pushes her away to pursue his own goals.

A few days later, on January 17, 1995 at 5:46 a.m., the city was struck by a devastating 7.2 magnitude earthquake . Tsuyoshi and his brother Jun are still sleeping at this point. Many buildings believed to be safe collapse, including the Takahashis' house. Tsuyoshi is recovered a few hours later - unharmed, like everyone in his family.

While the Takahashis march through the badly devastated and burning city to the emergency shelter, they meet Kazu, who asks them for help because his father has been buried. Tsuyoshi's father follows him while the family goes to the overcrowded emergency shelter (Tsuyoshi's school). Due to the collapse of the water supply, there is no drinking or fire-fighting water. The food is running out. And since it's winter everyone is freezing. When Tsuyoshi visits his father in the hospital, he finds out that Kazu's father couldn't make it. Kazu falls into an even deeper depression.

The situation remains critical over the next few days. Fires are still raging and there is still not enough water. Sensei, Tsuyoshi and Kazu's class teacher, drives through the ruined city to check on his students. When he finds Kazu, he takes him to the shelter against his will. Tsuyoshi wants to check on his grandparents, who live in the Hagata district. During his arduous journey through the destroyed Kobe, he witnesses how several people are rescued from the rubble. Impressed by this, he begins to learn that he has to take care of other people too. When he tries to apologize to Miho, he is horrified to find that she and her entire family were killed in the quake.

In the weeks that followed, more and more people left school to move to proper emergency shelters. Tsuyoshi and his classmates meet Hana, a senior citizen who tells them about the war and teaches them that what is lost can be rebuilt. Hana, who refuses to leave school because she would otherwise be alone in the emergency shelter, receives a promise from the children that they will visit her regularly.

When Kazu is picked up by his aunt, the latter refuses to leave Kobe so that he can be close to his father. The aunt agrees to take him with her only after graduation. Tsuyoshi visits Kazu at the ruins of his house and tries to cheer him up. Kazu is reluctant, but Tsuyoshi tries to get him to attend the graduation anyway. Kazu initially refuses, but then agrees, as it would make his father proud.

During the celebration on March 24th (two months after the quake), the children who have matured in the period after the quake will remember the dead. When Kazu is asked to pronounce his name out loud during the ceremony, he initially hesitates. When he remembers how proud his father would be, he calls out his name and receives thunderous applause. Tsuyoshi meets the man who rescued him from the rubble again and can finally thank him.

When Kazu wants to take the train to his aunt, he says goodbye to Tsuyoshi. He decided to go to a normal middle school and later stay in Kobe. Impressed by the helpers, he decided to do the same later and help other people. While Kazu is sitting on the train, he suddenly sees his classmates running along the beach and waving at him. Happy but not alone, he waves back as his train drives towards sunset.

Awards

The film received recommendations from the Japanese Ministry of Culture , the National Parents' Representation Committee , the Central Child Welfare Committee of the Ministry of Social Affairs , the Fire and Disaster Agency of the Ministry of the Interior , as well as the State Land Authority , the National Committee for Social Welfare , and the special award on the animation Kobe .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f 作品 歴 / 作品 紹 介 . (No longer available online.) GoGo Visual Planning, archived from the original on October 6, 2009 ; Retrieved June 22, 2011 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ggvp.net
  2. ↑ assumed reading for 扇 妙 子

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