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17 years later, an acclaimed anime movie is finally getting a live-action adaptation

5 Centimeters per Second is getting a live-action movie

Total Film

9 best anime shows and movies to watch on Valentine's Day

What better way to bask in the season of love alongside your partner than through the wonderful, heartfelt worlds of anime?

Tom’s Guide

The best hidden gem movies of 2023, from Godland to Quiz Lady

From Sandra Oh trying to rescue a kidnapped dog to a ‘Call My Agent!’ star struggling to deal with a transport strike, these are the best films from 2023 that you (probably) haven’t seen, courtesy of Jacob Stolworthy and Adam White

The Independent UK

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TV tonight: Dynamo escapes being buried alive during a live broadcast

Before he gets boxed in, the magician talks to Chris Martin, Tony Hawk and other celebrities about mental health. Plus, vets help pets give birth. Here’s what to watch tonight

The Guardian - UK

Best anime movies like Your Name on Max and Prime Video

Fans of Your Name should check out these great anime movies, including Weathering With You, A Silent Voice and more.

Tom’s Guide

The Garden of Words at the Park Theatre review – turns the subtle anime film into a galumphingly obvious show

It’s a story of wounded souls, poetry and unrequited love, with a side order of foot fetishism

Evening Standard

The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes review – sumptuously romantic YA anime

Tomohisa Taguchi’s elegant love story anchors the far-fetched plot points of Makoto Shinkai’s 2016 hit Your Name

The Guardian - UK

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How Director Makoto Shinkai Turned a Real Disaster Into 2023’s Most Stunning Sci-Fi

'Suzume' director Makoto Shinkai reveals how he created the sci-fi adventure out of a real-life disaster.

Inverse

An earthquake made Makoto Shinkai a disaster artist. Now he's confronting it head-on

LOS ANGELES — Makoto Shinkai knows the 2011 Tohoku earthquake changed him.

Los Angeles Times

Suzume review: "The future of anime is in safe hands"

"This world is not for the ordinary!" says an elderly character in Makoto Shinkai’s latest anime. And ‘ordinary’ is the last word you would apply to a rich and spectacular fantasy that combines the Your Name director’s trademark photorealism with the sort of whimsical shape-shifting and elaborate alternate-world building that…

Total Film

Suzume is one of the most successful anime movies of all time

The latest film from Your Name director Makoto Shinkai released last week

Total Film

Suzume review – a painterly coming-of-age anime from the director of Your Name

A schoolgirl and a haunted chair waft through a land of sunsets and cherry blossom in this fleeting tale set in the wake of the 2011 tsunami

The Guardian - UK

Review: 'Suzume,' about a girl who falls for a chair, is worth the price of a seat

Admirers of the gifted Japanese writer-director Makoto Shinkai will recognize his touch from the opening moments of his often entrancing new animated feature, "Suzume." An affecting story about love and salvation, loss and memory, the movie opens on a dark-blue sky kissed by pastel-sunset pinks and purples, with stars that…

Los Angeles Times

Suzume's Makoto Shinkai on the importance of comedy in the face of darkness

The director of Suzume talks three-legged chairs, trauma, and natural disasters

Total Film

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The Independent UK

Shinkai sticking to what he knows best: Japan, youth, anime

Makoto Shinkai doesn’t yet know the story he will tell in his next film, only that it will be about what he knows best

ABC News

Makoto Shinkai's latest anime Suzume is a romantic and funny romp that speaks to the power of memory

Inspired by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, director Makoto Shinkai crafts a story where the characters draw on their memories to avert disaster.

Bangkok Post

New movies out this week: Apr 12-18

New releases that hit Thai cinemas for your viewing pleasure.

The Independent UK

The anime hit 'Suzume' and Shinkai's cinema of cataclysm

Makoto Shinkai was never the same filmmaker after the 2011 earthquake stuck Japan

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Inverse

'Suzume' Review: 'Your Name' Director Makoto Shinkai's Most Daring, and Caring, Movie Yet

This is the movie that 'Your Name' director Makoto Shinkai has been preparing to make for the past eight years.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Makoto Shinkai's 'Suzume' shown at Berlin film festival

BERLIN -- Animated film "Suzume no Tojimari" ("Suzume"), directed by Makoto Shinkai, had its official competition screening at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival on Thursday.

The Guardian - UK

Suzume review – Makoto Shinkai’s charming modern Alice in Wonderland

The Your Name director’s mythic and comic new animation is an absorbing, intriguing and bewildering work

Inverse

The Most Underrated Sci-Fi Movie on HBO Max Reveals a Controversial Branch of Pseudoscience

Climate change is making extreme rainfall more likely — and Weathering with You proposes a bizarre solution with roots in real-life technology.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: ‘Avatar’ struggles show how Japan is ditching Hollywood

In its economic heyday of the late 1980s and early 1990s, there was a curious phenomenon of Hollywood celebrities showing up in Japanese commercials: Arnold Schwarzenegger hawking instant noodles, Harrison Ford pitching Kirin beer. To this day, Tommy Lee Jones still appears in a long-standing series advertising canned coffee.

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