Makoto Shinkai Film Festival announced in India; ‘Suzume’, ‘Weathering With You’ and more to be screened

Makoto Shinkai Film Festival announced in India; ‘Suzume’, ‘Weathering With You’ and more to be screened

Makoto Shinkai (L); posters for ‘Suzume’, ‘Weathering With You’ (R) PVR Pictures has announced a Makoto Shinkai film festival in India. The legendary Japanese anime director was recently in India to promote his film Suzume. Now, four of Shinkai’s previous hits along with Suzume will be screened in PVR and Inox cinemas across India from […]

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‘Suzume’ movie review: Makoto Shinkai explores love and loss in breathless road trip anime

‘Suzume’ movie review: Makoto Shinkai explores love and loss in breathless road trip anime

Mid-way through Makoto Shinkai’s latest, you realise what separates this from his previous works like Your Name and Weathering With You. For over decades now, Shinkai’s vision (a modern-day legend himself) has been compared to the greatest there ever was: Hayao Miyazaki. Now, with Suzume, he decides to go full throttle with references and tributes […]

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The Makoto Shinkai interview: On ‘Suzume’ and the universal language of his films

The Makoto Shinkai interview: On ‘Suzume’ and the universal language of his films

“Trying to come to terms with the fact that I am fully gonna bawl my eyes out over the love story between a high school girl and a little yellow chair,” reads the topmost comment on the Suzume trailer on the YouTube page Rotten Tomatoes Trailers. It’s the best summation of mood I could find. […]

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