Tag: Garden of Words

August 27, 2023 · 0 comments

By Tom Arden. Garden of Words was the last film that Makoto Shinkai made before he was boosted to blockbuster status by Your Name. Set in contemporary Tokyo, it’s the story of a schoolboy, Takao, who’s in the habit of walking through a park on wet days, when the rain gives a magic appearance to […]

August 16, 2023 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Makoto Shinkai’s original Garden of Words was about no-touch intimacy, as a schoolboy and a woman met in a Tokyo park awning to shelter from the rain. The ingenious new London stage version of Garden of Words has its own strong intimacy, by virtue of its venue. That’s the Park Theatre, two […]

July 31, 2023 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. This August, Makoto Shinkai’s film The Garden of Words – soon to have a new Blu-ray/CD Steelbook – will be adapted as a London stage play. It runs at the Park Theatre at Finsbury Park from 10th August 10 to 9th September; if you want to know more, I interviewed director Alexandra […]

January 18, 2020 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. As Makoto Shinkai’s Weathering with You comes to cinemas, Andrew Osmond talks to director Alexandra Rutter about adapting Shinkai’s film The Garden of Words in a new stage play by the British company Whole Hog Theatre, which will come to London this summer.

November 20, 2016 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Your Name is the new animated film by director Makoto Shinkai. For some readers, the story of a Tokyo boy, a country girl, and what happens when they start to swap lives, will be their first taste of Shinkai – all Shinkai’s films are self-contained, and can be enjoyed in any order. […]