Tag: Makoto Shinkai
April 8, 2023 · 1 comment
Shinkai’s Trilogy
By Andrew Osmond. Makoto Shinkai has made anime since the 1990s, but his three latest features – Your Name, Weathering with You and now Suzume – form their own little sequence. Thematically, they’re about natural disasters. Tonally, they have a crowd-pleasing blend of spectacle, heartbreak and humour. Their comedy especially marks them off from Shinkai’s […]
January 19, 2023 · 0 comments
Books: She and Her Cat
By Andrew Osmond. She and Her Cat was one of the first animated films by Makoto Shinkai, five minutes of software-aided monochrome that he made mostly by himself, three years before Voices of a Distant Star. It’s on Anime Limited’s edition of Voices and Place Promised in Our Early Days. The film shows the close […]
April 12, 2021 · 0 comments
Your Name
By Shelley Pallis. The forthcoming re-release of Makoto Shinkai’s world-beating romance Your Name is a perfect opportunity to revisit his 2016 blockbuster, and to poke around in some of the on 4K Blu-ray gossip and behind-the-scenes stories of its inception. The liner notes alone are thick with details liable to pass even hard-core fans by […]
March 28, 2021 · 0 comments
Music: Masayoshi Yamazaki
By Jonathan Clements. The accident-prone Masayoshi Yamazaki always seems to be able to fail upwards, starting with the moment in 1991 when the twenty-year-old musician showed up to the wrong audition. Not realising it was not the same company as Kitty Records, he took his guitar along to an open call for Kitty Films, marching […]
February 5, 2021 · 0 comments
Children Who Chase Lost Voices
By Shelley Pallis. Children Who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below, also known as Journey to Agartha, was a landmark moment in the career of anime director Makoto Shinkai, his second chance at big-budget feature directing, six years after the relatively poor performance of his first full-length feature, The Place Promised in Our Early Days. […]