Japan has chosen “Weathering With You” (Tenki no Ko), by record breaking director Makoto Shinkai (“Your Name”. “The Garden of Words”, “Journey to Aghartha”, “5 Centimeters per Second”) as national entry for the Best International Feature Film Category at the 2020 Oscars.
“Weathering With You” – that has just reached the $100 million (10.7 billion yen) mark at the domestic box office – is the first anime, since ‘Princess Mononoke’ by Hayao Miyazaki in 1998, to be designated to represent Japan at the Academy Awards.
The two protagonists are voiced by Kotaro Daigo (Hodaka) e da Nana Mori (Hina), and the theme-song “Ai ni Deikiru Koto wa Mada Aru Kai” is composed by popular j-rock band RADWIMPS that had greatly contributed to the success of “Your Name”.
Other members of the crew include Masayoshi Tanaka (“Your Name”) in charge of the character design, Atsushi Tamura head of animation, and artistic director Hiroshi Takiguchi (“The Garden of Words”, “Ajin”).
Synopsis
Hodaka Morishima runs away from his remote island to Tokyo, in the summer of his high school freshman year. The weather there seems to match his gloomy mood; raind and clouds, one grey day after another.
