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Suzume's Makoto Shinkai on the importance of comedy in the face of darkness

The director of Suzume talks three-legged chairs, trauma, and natural disasters

Total Film · Apr 14, 2023

Shinkai sticking to what he knows best: Japan, youth, anime

Makoto Shinkai doesn’t yet know the story he will tell in his next film, only that it will be about what he knows best

The Independent UK · Apr 14, 2023

Makoto Shinkai's latest anime Suzume is a romantic and funny romp that speaks to the power of memory

Inspired by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, director Makoto Shinkai crafts a story where the characters draw on their memories to avert disaster.

ABC News · Apr 13, 2023

Suzume review – Makoto Shinkai’s charming modern Alice in Wonderland

The Your Name director’s mythic and comic new animation is an absorbing, intriguing and bewildering work

The Guardian - UK · Feb 23, 2023

The Most Underrated Sci-Fi Movie on HBO Max Reveals a Controversial Branch of Pseudoscience

Climate change is making extreme rainfall more likely — and Weathering with You proposes a bizarre solution with roots in real-life technology.

Inverse · Feb 18, 2023

Commentary: ‘Avatar’ struggles show how Japan is ditching Hollywood

In its economic heyday of the late 1980s and early 1990s, there was a curious phenomenon of Hollywood celebrities showing up in Japanese commercials: Arnold Schwarzenegger hawking instant noodles, Harrison Ford pitching Kirin beer. To this day, Tommy Lee Jones still appears in a long-standing series advertising canned coffee.

Tribune News Service · Dec 23, 2022