Makoto Shinkai’s Suzume Trailer Travels Through Magic Doors

From the visionary director of Your Name (2016) and Weathering With You (2019), the brand new trailer for Suzume presents a glance into the surreal and emotionally devastating work of Makoto Shinkai. The trailer is a panoramic piece of artwork, and in between the animation and sophisticated voice appearing, Suzume is already garnering widespread consideration.

The movie follows the titular character, 17-year-old Suzume, as she travels throughout Japan discovering the inter-dimensional, magical doorways which have opened into her world, inflicting destruction. As she finds allies in a white cat and a three-legged chair, Suzume should shut these portals to stop additional catastrophe.

Japanese actress Nanoka Hara (Why Don’t You Play In Hell?, Opening Night) has been introduced because the voice of the lead position. Hara said that she was slightly nervous whereas recording strains for Suzume. “Since I could only use my voice to act out the characters’ emotions, I had to be mindful of every phrase and the meaning it was intended to carry. There was so much I didn’t know.”

Suzume might be launched in Japanese film theaters on November 11. Crunchyroll is distributing Suzume globally (excluding Japan, South Korea and India) starting in early 2023.

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