Weathering with You

Name: Weathering with You
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Animation, Family
Released: January 15, 2020
Duration: 112 min
Rating: 72
Cast: Alison Brie, Ashley Boettcher, Brandon Engman, Chieko Baisho, Dino Andrade

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GKIDS | Release Date: January 15, 2020 | PG-13

Starring: Alison Brie, Ashley Boettcher, Brandon Engman, Chieko Baisho, Dino Andrade, Kana Hanazawa, Kana Ichinose, Kentaro Araki, Kotaro Daigo, Lexie Foley, Mone Kamishiraishi, Nana Mori, Riz Ahmed, Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Sei Hiraizumi, Shun Oguri, Tsubasa Honda, Yuki Kaji

Summary: The summer of his high school freshman year, Hokoda 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 to suggest his future. He lives his days in isolation, but finally finds work as a writer for a mysteriousThe summer of his high school freshman year, Hokoda 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 to suggest his future. He lives his days in isolation, but finally finds work as a writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then one day, Hokoda 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. [GKIDS]… Expand

Director: Makoto Shinkai

Genre(s): Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Animation, Family

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 112 min

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Carlos Aguilar

Nov 26, 2019

As irresistibly romantic as it is awe-inspiringly gorgeous, Weathering With You on the whole satisfies the craving for more of what “Your Name” ignited in viewers, yet with slightly less impact. Read full review

Polygon Tasha Robinson

Jan 21, 2020

This is the kind of film where viewers can let themselves flow with the film’s emotion, or entirely ignore the action and just get lost in the beauty of the imagination. Either way, it’s a luscious trip to take. Read full review

Hoai-Tran Bui

Jan 17, 2020

Weathering With You is far and away one of the loveliest and most beautiful animated films in years. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Sep 14, 2019

For a movie about the sky, “Weathering with You” is ironically one of Shinkai’s most grounded films — immediately more warm and engaging than “Your Name,” if not at all capable of delivering the same emotional payoff. Read full review

Sara Stewart

Jan 15, 2020

Though most foreign films are best seen subtitled, the nonstop overexcitement of these anime performances can be exhausting. I’d have welcomed the dulcet tones of Pace, who voices Mr. Suga. Read full review

Alison Willmore

Jan 16, 2020

There’s a touch of “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” to Weathering With You that makes the direction it ultimately veers off into both surprisingly abrupt and darkly pragmatic. It’s also, in its own way, optimistic. Maybe, the film suggests, before anyone can think about saving the world, they have to figure out how to live in it. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Jan 21, 2020

It’s fanciful enough, but Weathering with You is too scattered with dashes of dullness making for many dead spots. It’s not on a par with virtually anything the anime master Hiyao Miyazaki made, and falls well short of the heart of “Your name.” Read full review

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baltazaar

Jun 28, 2020

. Another masterpiece. I guess i can call Weathring with you the same brilliant movie as Your name. Must watch for everyone

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draco199

Oct 4, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Weathering With You is a movie about how choices we make impact our lives. On the surface, Weathering With You looks like a fantasy movie with a girl who can control weather, although its deeper than that.
It's a romance story, where Hodaka Morishima runs away from home, and goes to Tokyo, where it rains heavily everyday, to find sun. There, he meets an interesting band of characters, one of them being Hina Amano, a "sunshine girl" who can control weather and make the rain stop for a few hours. In the beginning not many thing will make sense, but as the movie progresses it'll explain the backstory of the main characters and side characters. Must watch, 10/10… Expand

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s666a

Sep 1, 2020

You can just float yourself with the story, the drama, the romance, get wet in rain. Feel the emotions and feel the weather with them!

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alejandro970

Apr 17, 2021

¿Why does it always rain on me? A love story of a young runaway and a girl with the ability to make it rain or shine at will, which is altered by fate itself. Will they be able to change it? A movie for otakus with the same strengths as Your name.

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SoulWarfare

Dec 15, 2020

After watching the amazing Japanese animation movie "Your Name", I've wanted to watch director Makoto Shinkai's next work. The premise is simple and it's about "A boy runs away to Tokyo and befriends a girl who appears to be able to manipulate the weather". So is the movie another hit fromAfter watching the amazing Japanese animation movie "Your Name", I've wanted to watch director Makoto Shinkai's next work. The premise is simple and it's about "A boy runs away to Tokyo and befriends a girl who appears to be able to manipulate the weather". So is the movie another hit from the director or a flop?

Let's get obvious out the way but the animation and art style is still absolutely gorgeous. There are so many shots in this movie that are visually stunning and is done with meticulous detail. The animation team somehow made the rain looks dazzling in different ways, sometimes foreboding and sometimes elegant, it's quite exceptional. There are a lot more supernatural elements in this movie compared to "Your Name" and these elements are magnificent to look at. Radwimps returns to do the music and it is still phenomenal here as well and the director utilises these Jpop songs at the right time and they hit the right notes. The characters are all great as well. The main leads are Hodaka who is a 16-year-old boy that ran away from home and moved to Tokyo, Hina who is a girl who takes part-time jobs to support her family after her mother's death and can control the weather. They meet each other by coincidence but end up tangled in each other lives. They are both lovable characters and the chemistry between each other is strong which leads to the strongest moments in the movie. I enjoyed watching both of them and following alongside them. The supporting characters are also great and also a lot more relevant and developed compared to "Your Name" making them stand out more. They are all distinct with their quirks and their struggles making them more memorable. So everything good in "Your Name" is good here but is the story still good? Yes, it is. There is a profound mystery ongoing throughout the movie about the constant rain happening in Tokyo, the weird "fish jelly water" floating around and Hina's weather power. However, the emotional core of the movie is the relationship between Hodaka and Hina which is what keeps the audience so engaged with the story. There are some very dramatic and heartwarming moments throughout that are genuinely touching. Additionally, the use of Japanese rituals and Shinto beliefs gives the movie it's own flavor that will set it apart from American romance movies.

So is the movie masterpiece? Unfortunately, no as the biggest flaw of this movie is that it feels too similar to "Your Name" and not as good. It's difficult to not compare it to "Your Name" when that was his last movie before this. Weathering with You follows too many similar beats to that of "Your Name" with how similar the acts and structure are. It doesn't help that the movie also a romance movie and also has the same Jpop band singing within the movie. It probably would have been better if this movie was something completely different as people can't avoid comparing it to the masterpiece "Your Name".

The movie also has some pacing issues as I feel it drags at times which is most prominent in the middle act. The movie could have cut around 5 to 10 minutes worth of stuff to improve the pacing so it feels more cohesive. It also uses a lot of cliches and cheesiness that are seen in romance movies especially in the final act which make the movie feel not as unique. Furthermore, there are a lot of plot threads still dangling that I feel should be answered such as why Hodaka ran away from home?, how Hina got her own house despite being young or why she has weather manipulation powers? and did Natsumi (a supporting character) get a job or not? It's weird to mention Natsumi is going through countless job interviews but failing and show it, only to not even bother to resolve it. Likewise, it's weird they don't elaborate much on the backstory of the main leads. Overall, it's a good movie but it just feels too similar to "Your Name". An interesting tidbit I've found about Makoto is that he wasn't exactly fond of the massive hype of "Your Name" as it made it difficult for him to live up to that hype for the next movie. Sadly, what he feared happened. I think it would've been better if Makoto did something a bit more drastically different and then comparing it wouldn't be so problematic. However, Weathering with You is still a visual glory with a narratively engaging story and likeable characters. Despite the lack of backstory for our main leads, we the audience will still have no trouble in rooting for them and wanting them to be together. It may not be as good as "Your Name" but it still went down a storm with me and I believe it would for you as well.… Expand

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wisnievskikacpe

Jan 16, 2020

Ten film jest cudowny. Pełna energia oraz pokaz energi. Ja tej ekranizacji przekazuje 7/10 punktów.

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hnestlyonthesly

Mar 2, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Weathering With You makes about as much sense grammatically as its plot. The movie hinges on an actually cool metaphor for the tragic relationship between the youth and climate change, which works with the storyline but the follow through is stupid to harmful. The film is full of pseudo-intellectual nods to global warming and the "Anthropocene" era, but in order to exculpate the decision of the main character, it almost verges on climate denial, offering all sorts of cooky, New Age theories about coastal cities returning to the sea, being reclaimed by nature. It is devoid of commentary on the connection between consumer capitalism and climate change, despite its visual attention to verisimilitude. For all the accurately drawn Big Macs and ChocoPies, the movie has no **** to give about its apparent central metaphor. It is heavy with metatheatric jokes about art and anime at the beginning (for instance, one of the characters describes the fate of "sunshine girls" to be that they are eventually "spirited away" get it hahaha ok), but as the movie proceeds its weighed down with the stupid choices and incuriosity of its protagonist. It is Japan's entry for Best Picture for 2019, by the same director (Makoto Shinkai) as last year's disappointing Your Name, the (spoilers) overwrought gender-bending time travel film that hinges on the idea that two horny teenagers who are inhabiting each other's bodies would never bother to check the calendar or look for their own address in the age of cell phones and the Internet. Your Name was able to make Wife weep at its climax, so she had marked down this film as a must-see several weeks ago. I had major misgivings because of the enthusiasm gap I experienced from last time. I find Shinkai's films feel emotionally stunted. Everyone feels all of their emotions cranked up to 11. They lean heavily on a fantastical element that feels manufactured more for its visuals than anything that flows from necessity of plot and never let common sense get in the way of a cool scene. My least favorite things about this movie is the loose ends that are so lazily not tied up: the way that the dead mother of Suga's child, who died "in an accident" years earlier, is obviously another "sunshine girl" sacrifice that Suga could not help either, because why else would Suga be the one to save Hodaka on the ferry during the freak weather occurrence in the first scene? Wife says that the inability to square the circle on Suga's backstory is in line with his central character trait, the way that he's constantly undermining himself. Because why else would he stare at a wall of water gathering above his study and think, I should open the window to let all this water completely wreck my office. Or as friend put it, "If I let the water in through this window it will cause literally thousands of dollars of damage to clean up. F* it." Probably the most irritating thing about Weathering With You is how manufactured Hina's crisis feels. There are no external forces of evil, a hallmark of some of the **** anime in my estimation. Rather, Shinkai has developed this quirky character, given her powers beyond her wildest imagination, then built in that character's tragic end for the greatest emotional impact, and then tried to make everyone feel bad that her ability to change the weather should come with stakes and consequences. Consequences that Shinkai himself has mandated. No one but Shinkai has demanded that Hina should have to suffer for her relatively small-minded but mostly innocent acts of weather control. Hina at no point questions Why me? or How can I explain this phenomenon (without taking on faith the ravings of a old man whose own grandson doesn't trust when interviewed)? Because that is not the point of Hina. Weathering With You advances the idea that you can only be female in a story if you are a busty sex object that good-naturedly laughs off the pervy advances of a 15 year old coworker or a flat-chested human sacrifice "not cut out" for underage sex work.

Hina spends most of her time in various states of distress, whether its covered in a horde of water fish or inexplicably falling through the sky and breaking only her necklace or losing her ring that her friend of one month gives her on the advice of her purposefully androgynous little brother. Hina's secret about her age is the dumbest possible plot twist for that character. Her blank expression of non-threatening helpfulness is played and replayed (every scene in which she and Hodaka interact is flashbacked) for maximal emotional impact at the climax. Natsumi, Suga's suspected mistress, by contrast is pure fan service in low-cut tops, proffering alcohol to minors at key moments of celebration. She is available and boy crazy and not at all creeped out by Hodaka's attention. About a page more of review back at the site, but this gives you a taste.… Expand

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