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Suzume

Original title: Suzume no Tojimari
  • 2022
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  • 2h 2m
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7.6/10
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Suzume (2022)
A modern action adventure road story where a 17-year-old girl named Suzume helps a mysterious young man close doors from the outer side that are releasing disasters all over in Japan.
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A modern action adventure road story where a 17-year-old girl named Suzume helps a mysterious young man close doors from the other side that are releasing disasters all over in Japan.A modern action adventure road story where a 17-year-old girl named Suzume helps a mysterious young man close doors from the other side that are releasing disasters all over in Japan.A modern action adventure road story where a 17-year-old girl named Suzume helps a mysterious young man close doors from the other side that are releasing disasters all over in Japan.

  • Director
    • Makoto Shinkai
  • Writer
    • Makoto Shinkai
  • Stars
    • Nanoka Hara
    • Hokuto Matsumura
    • Eri Fukatsu
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.6/10
    56K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    2,440
    252
    • Director
      • Makoto Shinkai
    • Writer
      • Makoto Shinkai
    • Stars
      • Nanoka Hara
      • Hokuto Matsumura
      • Eri Fukatsu
    • 207User reviews
    • 144Critic reviews
    • 77Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 4 wins & 29 nominations total

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    Nanoka Hara
    Nanoka Hara
    • Suzume Iwato
    • (voice)
    Hokuto Matsumura
    • Souta Munakata
    • (voice)
    Eri Fukatsu
    Eri Fukatsu
    • Tamaki Iwato
    • (voice)
    Shôta Sometani
    Shôta Sometani
    • Minoru Okabe
    • (voice)
    Sairi Itô
    • Rumi Ninomiya
    • (voice)
    Kotone Hanase
    • Chika Amabe
    • (voice)
    Kana Hanazawa
    Kana Hanazawa
    • Tsubame Iwato
    • (voice)
    Ryûnosuke Kamiki
    Ryûnosuke Kamiki
    • Tomoya Serizawa
    • (voice)
    Ann Yamane
    • Daijin
    • (voice)
    Akari Miura
    • Young Suzume
    • (voice)
    Nichole Sakura
    Nichole Sakura
    • Suzume Iwato
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    Josh Keaton
    Josh Keaton
    • Sota Munakata
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    Jennifer Sun Bell
    Jennifer Sun Bell
    • Tamaki Iwato
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    Cam Clarke
    Cam Clarke
    • Hitsujiro Munakata
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    Roger Craig Smith
    Roger Craig Smith
    • Minoru Okabe
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    Bennett Abara
    Bennett Abara
    • Rumi Ninomiya
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    • (as Amanda Céline Miller)
    Rosalie Chiang
    Rosalie Chiang
    • Chika Amabe
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    Allegra Clark
    Allegra Clark
    • Tsubame Iwato
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    • Director
      • Makoto Shinkai
    • Writer
      • Makoto Shinkai
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    User reviews207

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    7chand-suhas

    "Poor Daijin, just wanted to be Suzume's cat"

    The premise was truly intriguing with several doors at abandoned places in need of getting closed in order to stop the gigantic worms from causing natural disasters. Ancient Gods are the keystones holding these worms back and there is a closer who has taken up this important job to keep these doors closed. Then there is Suzume, a girl raised by her aunt after she lost her mother during 2011 Tsunami. Suzume is gifted to see the ever after and her love at first sight Sota who is the closer, leads her to join him in the mission to close the doors as well as save the world.

    The animation is what caught my eye and I am not that much into anime. The story remained captivating for the most part and the narrative style kept the intrigue intact. I was drawn into the world of Suzume even before the fantasy part began. Chasing Daijin while closing one door after another, relating it to a major natural disaster from the Japanese history was a nice touch. However, despite couple of jokes working, the sub plot involving Serizawa felt dragged and the introduction of Sadaijin lacked the desired impact. Overall, Suzume is still a worthy watch for it's unique premise.
    8talking_about_movies

    Brilliant Animation, Brilliant Direction, Brilliant Soundtrack, Incomplete Story

    This is one of those movies, which just makes it really tough on me to write about it. Because if I talk about the problems I had with the movie, it seems a bit unfair because it is in fact a good movie. But if I don't, that seems unfair too because I did have some problems with this movie. Here's a little background on my impression of the director (and the writer and the editor) - Makoto Shinkai. "Your Name" is one of the best movies I've ever seen (not just in anime). And I absolutely adore "5 Centimetres Per Second" and "Garden of Words". I sort of have a love-hate relationship with "Weathering With You". I can write a long paragraph about it, but long story short, I absolutely love the direction, animation and soundtrack of that movie, but I really don't like the script and the plot.

    Ok now to Suzume. I do think this is a good movie. And I think people are going to have a great time with it, because of Shinkai's masterful direction and the RADWIMPS' breath-taking soundtrack. But I'm disappointed with the plot. Well, not exactly disappointed, but let me explain a bit more. I had a lot of fun with the first half of this movie. In fact, I loved the first 80% of this movie. And that's also because the movie continuously kept adding more and more unanswered questions, which made the plot more and more mysterious and it was great, until I started realising that the movie doesn't have enough time left to answer all those questions. And it didn't. When the end credits rolled, I was disappointed because so many answers felt missing. So much supernatural stuff happened in between that just wasn't explained. And now that I think about it, even Your Name didn't exactly explain its supernatural stuff. But it worked because of its characters. Because even though those plotlines didn't have a logical reason, they surely had an emotional one. This movie didn't seem to have both. Here, I can see that shinkai is trying to fit these themes like moving on and death but they didn't seem to fit into the movie.

    You know, I can't help but feel that after the success of Your Name, Shinkai is trying to repeat some of the same formulas in his stories. Some similarities with Your Name in both Weathering With You and Suzume are very evident. Like a natural disaster looming over the characters, a romance that turns very dramatic in the second half. The romance in this movie actually felt a lot more natural than it did in Weathering with You. But the problem is that just like Your Name, Shinkai makes these romances take a very dramatic turn. And romance, being a delicate emotion, can't be forced so dramatically until a certain level of familiarity has been reached in the first half.

    He did this flawlessly in Your Name and that's because that movie is built around its romance. Whereas in this movie, it feels that he's trying to add a dramatic romance to a plot that could've done without it. Look that's why it's tough on me, you might think I hated this movie. Not even close. I had a good time with this movie, because it is in fact a good movie. It's just that it could have been a lot more than it is, which is why I have to say the things I said above. But like I said this movie is directed MAJESTICALLY. I mean Shinkai's direction is just insane. He makes you feel emotions that aren't even there to feel xD.

    And the animation is so, so gorgeous. As good as it was in his previous movies (maybe even better). And RADWIMPS is now 3 in 3 with this soundtrack. This soundtrack is just as good as Your Name and Weathering With You, and that's saying something. I mean there is a sequence, where a certain supernatural entity covers the city of Tokyo and it's like one of the most mesmerizing scenes I've ever seen. The way Shinkai shows that scene, with the breath-taking shots, brilliant animation and jaw-dropping soundtrack, I mean it brought tears to my eyes. Give this man an oscar xD.

    This is also Shinkai's funniest movie. There are some very funny sequences here. 1 specific hilarious plot point that continues throughout the movie was just genius. The movie starts off very quickly and seeing these characters trying to catch on with what all is happening just made it even more entertaining and funny. There are also some very touching moments, mostly because of how brilliantly they were directed. Shinkai's direction and RADWIMPS' soundtrack is a combination that's capable of completely taking over it's viewers. But that 1 part of my brain which was thinking about the plot kept pulling me back.

    Overall though I had a good time with this movie but I'd say Shinkai is capable of much more than this in terms of the plot. I certainly like it more than Weathering With You though.

    I love movies like 5 Centimetres Per Second and Garden of Words. They were great movies in their own right, and they were nothing like Your Name. Those movies explored deep emotions like separation, alienation and growing up and did it brilliantly. So any movie can be great in its own right. I have a lot of faith in Shinkai as a filmmaker and I'd like to see a different movie from him.

    (Btw you're going to get goosebumps when the title pops up at the beginning of the movie, trust me)
    9sonsofsparda-15286

    Describe the film

    A love at first sight, seeking past, fifty thousand people used to live here now it's a ghost town, unlikely villain, phenomenon driven mystery, parkour, a race against time and chance, past meet future, today's sacrifice tomorrow's keep, great humor timing, strong voice acting, magical, captivating visual art animation & a music to fall in love, with nostalgia sure to hit a Makoto Shinkai's masterpiece ! When I left the theater I feel like wanting more I regretted for not having watch Kimi no Nawa and Weathering with you on cinema but not this time and I am so glad I captured this one. Ittekimasu Itterasshai.
    9boboceaelena

    Stunning

    Beautiful animation, brilliant even, with a lot of attention to details. It captures perfectly the nature with the shimmering of roads and the sparkling of the sea.

    The story is interesting even if in some places it could have been better. The feeling of old places with memories from the past struck a cord.

    Regarding the love story, I'm not sure how the infatuation "that guy looks beautiful" transformed into deep love to say "I am more afraid of a world without him".

    The idea of what generates earthquakes is interesting.

    As usual for japanese anime, the final "lessons" can easily bring you to tears but you are better if you remember that lesson because it's about life.
    9Johnny-the-Film-Sentinel-2187

    Beautifully done animation...

    Suzume has become one of 2023's breakout hits and for good reason; though the film may have some similarities to Your Name and Weathering With You, it's got enough different material to make this film a nicely refreshing experience at the cinema.

    I don't know why some critics/audience-members have complained about the supposed similarities to Makoto Shinkai's previous films; directors have styles they refine to their heart's content, so it's an odd thing to point out here. With that said, Shinkai uses his 'magic realism' approach to tell an even more fantasy-oriented story than Your Name; there are talking cats and sentient chairs in this one instead of a 'simple' body-swap.

    Of course, the story's well realised but what about the animation? It's gorgeous! Of course it's gorgeous! It's so crisp and fluid that even the few imperfections here and there do not diminish the sense of seeing a fantastical take on modern Japan that's ripe for the 'real fantasy' imagery on display here. Also, the animation has a consistently cinematic (and larger than life) flare that few recent American animated offerings seem to have. The intimate and big set pieces never feel totally out of place. Everything here just... fits nicely.

    Suzume is the kind of animation that cinema was made to show off, and in THE showiest fashion possible! Makoto Shinkai has a real knack for theatrical stories.

    Suzume gets 4.5/5 stars. 9/10 points. This one is certainly worth getting a ticket to see!

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    • Trivia
      Whether going to the countryside to see his parents or traveling the country to present his movies, Makoto Shinkai was seeing more and more deserted places and deserted buildings in Japan, due to the country's aging demographics. He wondered why Japanese people have prayers for groundbreaking ceremonies, but not when the buildings are abandoned, unlike what happens for people. That's why he made the movie about mourning for places.
    • Goofs
      The epicenter of the 2011 Touhoku earthquake was undersea, 45 miles off the East coast of Japan, so the worm couldn't possibly be responsible for it.
    • Quotes

      Singer: How much meaning must we overcome before we reach our destination?

    • Crazy credits
      The title doesn't appear until around the 13-minute mark.
    • Connections
      Featured in MsMojo: Top 10 Best Animated Movies of 2023 (2023)

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    • Release date
      • April 12, 2023 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Official sites
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    • Languages
      • Japanese
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Suzume's Door-Locking
    • Production companies
      • Aniplex
      • CoMix Wave Films
      • East Japan Marketing & Communications Inc.
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $10,932,037
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $5,001,705
      • Apr 16, 2023
    • Gross worldwide
      • $285,092,455
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    • Runtime
      2 hours 2 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
      • IMAX 6-Track
      • Dolby Atmos
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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