The film was commissioned in 2014, written and directed by Makoto Shinkai. In the film, high school students Taki Tachibana and Mitsuha Miyamizu suddenly begin to swap bodies, despite having never met. Shinkai wants viewers to walk away from the film thinking about “how to close the many doors we left open.” We’re sure the film’s theme will stay with viewers as Shinkai intends, just as it has for his many other deeply personal stories.Your Name ( Japanese: 君の名は。, Hepburn: Kimi no Na wa) is a 2016 Japanese animated romantic fantasy film produced by CoMix Wave Films and distributed by Toho. More than in the literal sense, however, Shinkai loves to communicate important, relatable issues through his films. For a film filled with doors that need to be closed, it’s a clear theme to derive. The story of Suzume no Tojimari is all about closure, according to a statement from Shinkai to io9. The places she wanders into have a sky where all hours of the day seem to blend together- Beckoned by the mysterious doors, Suzume's 'journey of closing doors' begins.”

The doors that opened must be closed to shut out calamity that lies on the other side. Suzume feels drawn by an invisible power and reaches out to the door - Soon, doors all over Japan start opening one after another. “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 ruin to a dilapidated building in the mountains and finds a free-standing, undisturbed door t as if 'it' alone were saved from devastation.

The trailer also gives a taste of the music that Shinkai’s films are known for, and Suzume no Tojimari’s soundtrack sounds just as great as Your Name’s! Related: 7 Weird Ways Anime Characters Have Gained PowersĪ compelling narrative, and when told through a road movie that takes place across Japan, we’re sure Suzume no Tojimari will feature stunning scenery just like Shinkai’s other films. After meeting a man who is looking for these doors, they discover one in the mountains of Japan that leads to a disaster nearly striking her hometown. Suzume no Tojimari follows seventeen-year-old protagonist Suzume Iwato as she takes on a coming-of-age adventure across Japan, closing doors that, when open, release destruction and disaster.

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