Free showing for members
Cert PG
September 26th 2024
Nominee – Best Animated Feature Film, Golden Globes 2023
Best Animated Feature Film, Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
Golden Bear – Berlin International Film Festival 2023
Director: Makoto Shinkai
Cast: Nanoka Hara, Hokuto Matsumura, Eri Fukatsu
Country: Japan Japanese (English subs) 122 minutes
UK release date: April 2023
Suzume, a 17-year-old girl who lives in a quiet town in Kyushu, meets a young man on a journey “looking for doors.” Suzume follows him to a dilapidated building in the mountains and finds a free-standing, undisturbed door as if “it” alone were saved from devastation. Suzume feels drawn by an invisible power and reaches out to the door. Soon, doors all over Japan start opening one after another, and must be closed to shut out calamity that lies on the other side.
“The film is such a retina-blasting feat of giddy, maximalist quirk that it does rather threaten to frazzle the synapses.” Jessica Kiang, Sight & Sound
“Shinkai’s work is so heartfelt in the way he weaves his deeply empathetic themes through sun-kissed visuals. Like the best animated filmmakers, we see the magic in what he does. And we also see ourselves.” Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com
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