Weathering With You - The girl who touched the sun

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Anime movie
title Weathering With You - The girl who touched the sun
Original title 天 気 の 子
transcription Tenki no Ko
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Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 2019
Studio CoMix Wave Films
length 113 minutes
genre Fantasy , drama , romance
Age rating FSK 6
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Director Makoto Shinkai
idea Makoto Shinkai
script Makoto Shinkai
music Wheel wimps
synchronization

Weathering With You - The girl, the sun touched ( 天気の子 Tenki no Ko , translated: Child of the weather , the official international title: Weathering With You ) is an animated film of the Japanese director Makoto Shinkai , bounded by the animation studio CoMix Wave film realized has been. It followed the masterpiece anime film Your Name. - Yesterday, Today and Forever by Shinkai from 2016. The film premiered in Japanese theaters on July 19, 2019.

The film is about high school student Hodaka Morishima, who moves from his hometown to Tokyo and there meets the mysterious Hina Amano, who is able to control the weather.

action

High school student Hodaka Morishima runs away from home on an isolated island and goes to Tokyo . He quickly gets into financial difficulties and soon goes hungry. He falls asleep outside a bar and is chased away, finding a hidden gun that he thinks is a toy. A girl in a burger shop helps him over a day with a free burger. Eventually, Hodaka found a job with a small editorial office for occult articles run by Keisuke Suga and Natsumi. He doesn't get much money, but has room and board. Since it rains constantly in Tokyo despite the summer, rumors spread about a sunshine girl, which Natsumi and Hodaka are investigating. Eventually Hodaka meets Hina Amano, whom he recognizes as the girl who helped him in the burger shop. He saves them from shady characters and fires the pistol into the air, which turns out to be a real weapon. Hina leads a simple life with her little brother Nagisa and she has a special ability: she can call the sun through a prayer since she was in a small temple and prayed for better weather for her dying mother. Since Hina is looking for an income for the two orphans, Hodaka suggests that they market their ability. And so the three Hinas sell sun prayers on the internet and become little celebrities.

Even during the first research it was said that the sunshine girl was in danger, and now a priest is telling Natsumi and Keisuke about the weather mics that are said to have existed in many places in earlier times. They made a covenant with Heaven, could influence the weather and would eventually have to sacrifice themselves. After a while, they meet Hina and Hodaka, and Natsumi tells Hina about the danger. Together with Hodaka, she has long since decided to end her existence as a sunshine girl. Hodaka has decided to give her a ring on her birthday. But the weather in Tokyo is getting stormier, the traffic soon collapses and the police are also looking for Hodaka because his gunshot was noticed. Keisuke wants to protect himself after being visited by the police and no longer allows Hodaka to visit him. The three youngsters roam through Tokyo, where it is meanwhile storming and snowing, and after a long search find accommodation in a hotel. They spend a wonderful evening together, at the end of which Hodaka presents Hina with his gift. During the night, Hina sacrifices herself so that the weather in Tokyo can finally get back to normal. It dissolves and is gone the next day. Hodaka is desperate and is arrested by the police at the hotel; Nagisa comes to a home. But to get Hina back, Hodaka flees the police station and Nagisa tricked the policewoman in the home. A chase ensues in which Hodaka is supported by Natsumi and Keisuke. Finally he comes to the little temple where Hina became the sunshine girl. He brings Hina back from the sky, even if this means severe storms for Tokyo again. While the two Amano siblings now live in stormy and sinking Tokyo, Hodaka receives a suspended sentence and has to return to his homeland. After three years, he finished school and travels again to the half-flooded Kantō plain , to which people have now got used, and finally meets Hina again.

production

On August 2, 2018, Makoto Shinkai announced the production of a new feature film, which will be released in the course of 2019. In addition to Shinkai, the production team also includes character designer Masayoshi Tanaka , Atsushi Tamura as animation director and Hiroshi Takiguchi , who takes on background supervision.

Voice actor

For the synchronization of the two protagonists , a casting was held in which more than 2,000 applicants took part. Nana Mori and Kotaro Daigo were selected as the speakers for the two characters as part of this selection process. It was also announced that various speakers from Your Name. - Yesterday, today and forever to be given a speaking role in the film.

Additional voice actors were announced in May. The voice acting began on April 27, 2019.

music

The Japanese rock band Radwimps is once again responsible for the music . Shinkai, who is already on Your Name. worked with the band, sent the script to their singer Yōjirō Noda in late August to get his opinion. The band then wrote the piece 愛 に で き る こ と は ま だ あ る か い Ai ni Dekiru koto wa Mada Arukai ( Is there still anything that love can do? ), Which also functions as the title song of the film.

synchronization

The German language version was created by the Berlin dubbing company Scalamedia . With Matthias von Stegmann , a half-Japanese man was hired for the dialogue book and dialogue direction.

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) German speaker
Hodaka Morishima Kotaro Daigo Sebastian Fitzner
Hina Amano Nana Mori Léa Mariage
Nagisa Amano Sakura Kiryu Hannes Ploner
Keisuke Suga Shun Oguri Rainer Fritzsche
Natsumi Suga Tsubasa Honda Lucille-Mareen Mayr
Fumi Tachibana Chieko Baishō Elvira Schuster
Yasui Be Hiraizumi Lutz Schnell
Takai Yūki Kaji Bastian Sierich
Mitsuha Miyamizu Mone Kamishiraishi Laura Jenni
Taki Tachibana Ryûnosuke Kamiki Maximilian Belle

publication

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On December 13, 2018, a press conference was held at which the film was officially presented and announced for July 19, 2019. The first film trailer was released on April 10, 2019, exactly 100 days before the official cinema premiere in Japan. Tōhō takes over the worldwide distribution of the film.

A second film trailer was presented to the public on May 28, 2019. Producer Genki Kawamura will present a video on the status of film production for the press and film students in June as part of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival .

A third trailer was released on July 2nd with a brief overview of Makoto Shinkai's previously released films , which featured a 1:43 min. contains long previews of different parts of the film.

Film release

Weathering With You was released in Japanese theaters on July 19, 2019 . The release is scheduled for August 8th in Hong Kong . The film will also be shown in Indonesia , Singapore and the Philippines . GKIDS secured the license for the English-speaking area and will release the film at a limited event in late 2019 and across North America in early 2020 .

Universum Anime secured the rights for the German-speaking area. The film was shown with the extended title Weathering With You - The Girl Who Touched the Sun on January 16 and 19, 2020, either with German dubbing or in the original with German subtitles in selected German, Austrian and Swiss cinemas and was shown in many cinemas on January 23 and 26, 2020. Between June 2 and July 31, 2020 the film will be shown again once or in several screenings in many German and Austrian cinemas. The film is expected to be released on DVD and Blu-ray in one standard and several limited collector's editions on September 25, 2020.

reception

Awards

The film was selected as the Japanese entry for Best International Film for the 2020 Academy Awards , but was not shortlisted. However, it was nominated four times for the Annie Award: Best Indie Film, Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay. At the 13th Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Weathering With You received the award for best film. The film also won the audience awards for Scotland Loves Anime and the Animation is Film Festival.

Commercial win

While Your Name. - Yesterday, today and forever received 301 screenings in 196 Japanese cinemas on the premiere day, Weathering With You - The Girl Who Touched the Sun started in 359 cinemas in Japan with a total of 448 screenings. Almost 1.16 million cinema tickets were sold within the first three days, bringing in just under 1.64 billion yen, equivalent to 13.6 million euros, in Japan. On the opening day, Weathering With You played 18 percent more one than its predecessor on the first day. After 34 days, the film grossed ten billion yen, the equivalent of almost 94.6 million US dollars. In Germany around 61,000, in Austria and Switzerland together around 8,000 visitors watched the film on the two days of the event, which corresponds to box office earnings of 730,000 euros in Germany and 42,000 euros in Austria.

Reviews

Dinah Zank reviewed the film for Deutschlandfunk , which she calls a “fantastic fable about climate change ”, “a single, huge work of art”. Technically, the work is currently the best animated film, which impresses above all with the detailed depiction of Tokyo in the background. The topic of climate change appears in the film as increasingly heavy rain, as this actually leads to increasingly heavy rain events in Japan. The story connects this with Japanese myths and the love of two sympathetic protagonists. The Süddeutsche Zeitung, however, thinks that Shinkai is not up to the issue of climate change. In particular, the ending must be irritating, in which the love of the two young people has priority over saving the city from the rain. Otherwise the story, a “saccharine-sweet love story”, has a few gaps. Visually, however, Shinkai can convince with breathtaking images and find “impressive apocalyptic images” for climate change. Above all, the portrayal of Tokyo "as a rooted, vital metropolis [...], fascinating and not without danger" shows that the film "is also a declaration of love for the city". The Taz and Aachener Zeitung also praise Weathering With You as a film with and for young people - but also rewarding for adults - "elaborately drawn and equipped with great characters", well balanced between fantasy and romance, with "echoes of a dystopian Present".

Further implementations

On July 18, 2019, the novel for the film, which was written by Shinkai himself, was released in Japan . In Germany this was licensed by Egmont Manga and was published on December 5, 2019.

It was announced in June that Weathering With You - The Girl Who Touched the Sun will also receive a manga version. This was also licensed by Egmont Manga and announced for spring 2020. The first volume was published on February 2, 2020.

Web links

Commons : Weathering with You  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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