We have a 16-year-old teenager who is saved by a man I think when falling from a ship or so. Okay, back to this one here: I will quickly summarize the key story. Sadly, the Academy Awards did not agree in a year where another Asian country dominated the show, even winning Best Picture, one that is in my opinion not superior to this one here, but then again it is really completely impossible to compare these two films I assume with how different they are from every perspective. By the way, it was also Japan's official submission for the foreign language category wasn't it? Sadly, there it was ignored, but still a very inspired decision to pick an animated film for that. Not entirely sure about that though right now. At the Oscars it did not get in, but I think it made the shortlist, which is also always a success for foreign movie.
Good to see that awards bodies agreed and gave this one some recognition, especially the Annie Awards, the Animation Oscars if you want to call them that. A film that is on a technical level as high as it gets. Examples for stunning scenes are the early depiction of Tokyo, basically everything involving the weather changes and the glorious reunion(s) towards the end.
It's almost always true with anime these days, especially with crafted artists like Shinkai, but we still should not take that for granted. There was not a single moment when I considered giving the outcome here a thumbs-down. "Tenki no ko" or "Weathering with You" is not a weak film by any definition. Now, this one here is not on the same level as "Your Name", but that is really only because of how amazing the latter is. I am positive there will be retrospectives or at least anime weeks during which his achievements from the past are shown once again. I also hope I can catch some of his older stuff in the future on the big screen. The main reason for that is that I saw "Your Name" a couple years ago without knowing anything pretty much about Shinkai and was blown away by the beauty of that movie. Now I came across this 110-minute movie a long time ago, way before its release in fact and I got quite curious there already. And good news is he is still under 50 years old, so he can very well have another 25 years in the industry or even more and there will be a lot more amazing stuff in store from him for us to appreciate. The big name attached to this project is Makoto Shinkai and in my opinion he is one of the country's finest filmmakers these days and certainly not only when it comes to animation (here he may be the number one in fact). "Tenki no ko" is a co-production between Japan and China and the latter's involvement surprised me a bit here. Reviewed by Horst_In_Translation 6 / 10 Not Shinkai's best, but still a pretty good watch overall
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