Synopsis
The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if taking its cue from his life. After many days of solitude, he finally finds work as a freelance writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then, one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky.
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Cast
- Kotaro DaigoHodaka Morishima (voice)
- Nana MoriHina Amano (voice)
- Tsubasa HondaNatsumi Suga (voice)
- Sakura KiryuNagisa Amano (voice)
- Sei HiraizumiYasui (voice)
- Yuki KajiTakai (voice)
- Chieko BaishoFumi Tachibana (voice)
- Shun OguriKeisuke Suga (voice)
- Sumi ShimamotoMamiya (voice)
- Ryohei KimuraKimura (voice)
Recommendations
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TheWrap
As irresistibly romantic as it is awe-inspiringly gorgeous, Weathering With You on the whole satisfies the craving for more of what “Your Name” ignited in viewers, yet with slightly less impact. - 88
LarsenOnFilm
Like Shinkai’s metaphysical body-switching fantasia Your Name, Weathering with You works on multiple levels: as eco-fable, social commentary, and teen romance. - 80
The Telegraph
Though Weathering With You tells a story of a makeshift family enduring uncertain times, its dominant emotion is amazement – at the power and persistence of first love, and the everyday wonders of the world in which it flourishes against the odds. - 80
Empire
An absolute must-see for anyone who loved 2016’s Your Name. Even if it isn’t as surprising and narratively powerful as that film, Weathering With You once again exemplifies Makoto Shinkai’s visionary prowess as an animator. - 75
IndieWire
For a movie about the sky, “Weathering with You” is ironically one of Shinkai’s most grounded films — immediately more warm and engaging than “Your Name,” if not at all capable of delivering the same emotional payoff. - 75
The Film Stage
The imagery of water fish swimming in the sky while Hina floats towards an uncharted “marine” habitat of clouds is stunning to behold and the humor earns some big laughs even if much of it centers around teenage horniness and sex-based assumptions. Beneath all that, though, is a resonant tale of empathy and romance. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Adding it up, the film has the same charming characters and delightfully detailed pastel artwork of its predecessor, but in exchanging Your Name’s sci-fi component for a mythical-magical story, it loses a bit of quota. - 63
Slant Magazine
Contemporary outrage could’ve potentially counterpointed the film’s increasingly mawkish tendencies.
