Weathering with You (2019)
Directed by Makoto Shinkai
The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if taking its cue from his life. After many days of solitude, he finally finds work as a freelance writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then, one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky.
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In Japan, where it was released in 2016, it was a pop-culture phenomenon , grossing more than any domestic film ever, save for Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away.
His greatest success to date was 2016’s highly acclaimed Your Name , breaking records in Japan and going on to be the second highest-grossing anime of all time (no shame in it missing out on first place, which remains with Studio Ghibli’s Oscar-winning masterpiece Spirited Away).
The meteoric success of Your Name in 2016 all but cemented that, particularly when the body-swap romance (briefly) overtook Spirited Away as the highest-grossing Japanese film of all time .
Riz Ahmed (Rogue One), Alison Brie (Glow) and Lee Pace (Guardians of the Galaxy) provide the voices for the English-language version of a story that combines teenage romance with melancholic fantasy and environmental parable.
The everyday “magic” (shades of “Kiki’s Delivery Service”) is only magical on first sight.