"Hey... They say it's five centimeters per second.""What do you mean?"
"The speed at which the sakura blossom petals fall... Five centimeters per second."
This is a movie released last year in Japanese. I prefer the subs because the english voices scare me (haha). I just watched this. It was so sad and amazing. Now really -- sad movies make me so sad. But this had an unexpected/bittersweet ending. That's not all though -- it was portrayed beautifully. Good watch. Man just saying but there were times where I knew something would be sad and I wanted to skip but I had to force myself not to.
The movie is seperated into three episodes which works in sense of realization and metaphor development and change in time; which happens to be the whole meaning of the story. Needless to say he got the point across and it was beautiful how he did it how quickly. It makes you want to watch Makoto's other stuff. (Probably will). All the epsiodes add up to be 1hour long .
Episode 1 focused on Akira and Takaki and how they have to move around a lot. It's evident they fall in love and make a promise of some sort to meet up and see the cherryblossoms. A sad journey but Takaki decides to bullet train all the way up there to see her. Again -- it was sad. In the end, they do see eachother. They share a kiss. But even so, he leaves in the morning with a lump in his heart because he knows overtime they'll drift apart.
Episode 2 is about a girl who has a crush on Takaki known as Kanae. She also can't ride waves at the beach but doesn't give up. Without the courage to tell him her feelings she strives on. Then one day, she made the wave when surfing and decided she'd confess to Takaki today. But as she spots him looking off into the distance she sees he's already in love with someone much greater who can give him more happiness - . With that, she cries herself to sleep -- never being able to confess before he left for university in Tokyo. The must touching episode. Because well to me XD. haha .
Episode 3 is focused on when Takaki grows up. Akari sees a letter that she wrote but never sent to him. He also.. lost a letter on his first visit that he wrote for her. But Akari seems to have moved on. Another day passes and Takaki crosses paths with Akari (and it's kinda obviously hinted it's Akari). After much realization and reflecting we finally come to know that when she turned around as well to see who it was two trains blocked their sight. Takaki stayed to see what it was. Soon seeing the woman was nowhere to be seen.
He realizes -- it was for the best smiling as he walks away from the railroad crossing. And stops wanting and living in the past. So he finds a way to somehow be happy.
I think this was beautiful. It was sad -- and I generally don't like sad. *Kinda weird too watch after reading Peeled lmao I guess*. Sad/Beautiful is nice though. It was deep. Episode 2 made me cry.
I start to wonder. Will it be like this too? Haha it was nice, well done, beautiful, bittersweet, unexpected. Amazing. No words to describe. In fact maybe I shouldn't review it right after getting shot with ":O ah!". (lol).
A good watch.♥
(Takaki's japanese voice is cute I dunno why)
Mark: 10/10
Trailer
Characters/VoiceActors
Takaki Tōno (遠野貴樹, Tōno Takaki)
Voiced by: Kenji Mizuhashi (Japanese), David Matranga (English)
Akari Shinohara (篠原明里, Shinohara Akari)
Voiced by: Yoshimi Kondō (Part 1) and Ayaka Onoue (Part 3), (Japanese), Hilary Haag (English)
Kanae Sumida (澄田花苗, Sumida Kanae)
Voiced by: Satomi Hanamura (Japanese), Serena Varghese (English)
Credits
Director, Writer and Original Creator: Makoto Shinkai
Character Design and Art Director: Tayako Nishimura
Background Art: Takumi Tanji, Ryoko Majima
Character Design and Art Director: Tayako Nishimura
Background Art: Takumi Tanji, Ryoko Majima
Music: Tenmon
Production and Distribution: CoMix Wave, Inc.
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