Your Name Director’s Stunning Suzume No Tojimari Announces Theatrical Release

Suzume No Tojimari, the following movie from Your Identify and Weathering With You director Makoto Shinkai, has been picked up for worldwide launch.

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As with a lot of his earlier movies, Suzume No Tojimari is being each written and directed by Shinkai. Shinkai will as soon as once more work with character designer Masayoshi Tanaka, who beforehand labored with the director on Your Identify and Weathering With You. The animated movie is being produced at CoMix Wave Movies and Story Inc., with Toho distributing.

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Expectations for Suzume No Tojimari are excessive, as Shinkai is among the greatest names within the anime business at present, along with his work being steadily in contrast by critics to the medium’s most well-known auteur, Studio Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki. The director started his profession at online game developer Falcom (Ys, Trails within the Sky) earlier than shifting on to anime along with his directorial debut, the self-produced brief She and Her Cat in 1999. Shinkai’s breakout hit arrived in 2016 with the runaway success of the romantic comedy Your Identify, which was the primary non-Studio Ghibli anime movie to earn over $100 million on the Japanese field workplace. A live-action remake of Your Identify is presently within the works at Paramount Photos.