But these colorful creations are rooted in real-life tragedy.
“At the time I was in Tokyo, so a bit far from the epicenter of the earthquake.
It changed my own worldview and approach to how I create, how I put messages into anime itself.
Characters from the anime film ‘Suzume’.crunchyroll
The possibility of a disaster like the 2011 earthquake hangs overSuzume.
The challenge for Sota and Suzume, then, is to close these doors before it’s too late.
Shinkai’s films such asSuzume, in theaters now are remarkable for how much they focus on saving lives.
Poster for the film ‘Suzume’ by director Makoto Shinkai.Crunchyroll
That puts a human face on these massive dangers something that Your Name does as well.
“It might seem like, ‘Oh, Shinkai is making disaster movies.’
That might seem like a contradiction, because disaster films usually engulf and envelop society as a whole.
But that contradiction is what leads to the sense of both micro and macro levels in my films.”
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