![]() You made Voices Of A Distant Star almost by yourself in 2002. So now I’m just really wanting to make the next film so that I could just fix all of those issues. I mean everyone did laugh at the points that I was hoping they would, but then I saw a lot of things that I could maybe change. I just had lots of little regrets as I watched. But then, you know what, while I was watching with the audience yesterday, I just kept noticing this stuff that we could have done better. Yeah, I’m happy that we were able to create something that the audience wanted to see. Well, it’s been pretty well received so far. So with Weathering With You I just wanted to make I want, and see if the audience actually wants to see it this time. I don’t think that’s something that you could just recreate. It felt like a lot of good luck sort of just fell into place. What I wanted to make at the time was probably what a lot of audiences wanted to see at the time. When I was making Your Name, I wasn’t making it to make it a big hit. I don’t think I really felt any pressure. I think the massage worked best because we spend so much of production hunched over!ĭid you find it daunting to follow up the runaway success of Your Name ? We also brought in organic bento box lunches so we could, you know, eat good food. With Weathering With You we had a massage therapist and acupuncturist come into the studio to take care of the workers. I think one of the things we have to do in the anime industry as a whole right now is to make a better system to help production. What’s happening in animation in Japan is that there’s not enough people, there’s not enough time, and there’s not enough money. ![]() You were working on Your Name almost right up until release date - were there any difficulties to that process that you tried to fix while making Weathering With You ?įor both Your Name and Weathering With You, production was pretty hard. It turns out that Hina really does have the power to control the sky - a gift that could bring unexpected wealth and even happiness to an oppressively rainy Tokyo.Īfter the film’s US premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, Polygon sat down with Shinkai to discuss the film, as well as the current state of the animation industry and the upcoming Your Name remake. His assignment eventually leads him to Hina, a girl who once offered him food when he was starving. Assigned to the “urban legends” column, Hodaka is asked to track down a girl fabled to have the magical power to stop the rain and roll in sunshine. He eventually finds shelter and employment from a man named Suga, a detective who runs a shady occult and conspiracy magazine. Weathering with You is the story of 16-year-old runaway Hodaka, who moves to a perpetually rainy Tokyo with nothing but the clothes on his back. This connection between the heart and the surrounding land permeates the very scenery of his films, all lovingly rendered in lavish, beautiful digital paintings. While not as overtly focused on the environment as Hayao Miyazaki, a filmmaker Shinkai is often compared to, his past films Your Name, Garden of Words and Children Who Chase Lost Voices have all pondered the effect that changes in the seasons have on our emotions, particularly love. Makoto Shinkai’s Weathering with You feels familiar, but foregrounds something that has always resided in his anime films: a deep and intense connection to the natural world.
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