Disaster trilogy

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Disaster trilogy
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Directed by Makoto Shinkai
Written byMakoto Shinkai
Produced by
  • Kōichirō Itō (YN, S)
  • Kinue Itō (WY, S)
  • Wakana Okamura (WY, S)
Starring
Edited byMakoto Shinkai
Music by Radwimps
Production
companies
Distributed by Toho
Release dates
  • 3 July 2016 (2016-07-03)(YN)
  • 19 July 2019 (2019-07-19)(WY)
  • 11 November 2022 (2022-11-11)(S)
Running time
  • 107 minutes (YN)
  • 112 minutes (WY)
  • 122 minutes (S)
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Box office$923 million (3 films)

The disaster trilogy is the collective term for a film trilogy consisting of three coming-of-age fantasy anime films, which are thematically-related to natural disasters set primarily in Japan, written and directed by Makoto Shinkai and produced with CoMix Wave Films: [1] [2]

Contents

  1. Your Name [a] (Japanese: 君の名は。, Hepburn: Kimi no Na wa; lit.  'Your Name is...') (2016)
  2. Weathering with You (Japanese: 天気の子, Hepburn: Tenki no Ko; lit.  'Child of Weather') (2019)
  3. Suzume (Japanese: すずめの戸締まり, Hepburn: Suzume no Tojimari; lit.  'Suzume's Locking Up') (2022)

Their central themes drew inspiration from the frequency of natural disasters in Japan, dealing with certain elements of love, personal growth, sacrifice, and the passage of time. [3]

Despite being referred to as a trilogy, due to the similar theme, director and style, the characters in each film are different (up to cameos), and Your Name and Weathering with You are set in the same universe, while Suzume is set differently. Furthermore, the first two of the trilogy were directly connected by Shinkai's 2013 opposite mid-length film The Garden of Words (言の葉の庭, Kotonoha no Niwa), which served as a precursor to the trilogy, via cameos of previous characters. [4] The first film in the trilogy premiered at the 2016 Anime Expo in Los Angeles on July 3, 2016, and eventually released in Japan on August 26, 2016; the last two were theatrically released in Japan on July 19, 2019 and November 7-11, 2022, respectively.

Disaster trilogy received widespread critical acclaim from critics and audiences, with particular praise for its story, animation, music, visuals, and emotional weight. The trilogy was a massive commercial success, with each film in it being among the fifteen highest-grossing Japanese animated feature films, and Your Name becoming the second highest-grossing film on the list. It also received numerous accolades, including two Crunchyroll Anime Awards for Film of the Year to Your Name and Suzume, and six Japan Academy Film Prizes, in addition of nominations to thirteen Annie Awards and one Golden Globe Award. All of the films were adapted to novel and manga.

Premises

Your Name (2016)

Your Name follows the story of high school students Taki Tachibana and Mitsuha Miyamizu, who suddenly begin to swap bodies despite having never met, unleashing chaos onto each other's lives.

Weathering with You (2019)

Weathering with You follows a 16-year-old high school boy, Hodaka Morishima, who runs away from his troubled rural home to Tokyo, and later befriends Hina Amano, an orphaned girl who has the ability to control the weather.

Suzume (2022)

Suzume follows 17-year-old high school girl Suzume Iwato and young stranger Souta Munakata, who team up to prevent a series of disasters across Japan by sealing doors from the colossal, supernatural worm that causes earthquakes after being released.

Characters

Main characters

Name Your Name Weathering with You Suzume
Taki Tachibana (立花 瀧, Tachibana Taki) [b] Yes [c] No
Mitsuha Miyamizu (宮水 三葉, Miyamizu Mitsuha) [d] Yes [c] No
Hodaka Morishima (森嶋 帆高, Morishima Hodaka)NoYesNo
Hina Amano (天野 陽菜, Amano Hina)NoYesNo
Suzume Iwato (岩戸 鈴芽, Iwato Suzume)NoNoYes
Souta Munakata (宗像 草太, Munakata Sōta)NoNoYes

Characters from Your Name appeared as cameos in Weathering with You: Taki Tachibana, Mitsuha Miyamizu, Katsuhiko "Tessie" Teshigawara, Sayaka Natori, and Yotsuha Miyamizu.

Two main characters from the precursor film The Garden of Words appeared in Your Name as cameo roles: Yukari Yukino (雪野 百香里, Yukino Yukari) appears in a cameo role as a teacher in Your Name, and Takao Akizuki (秋月 孝雄, Akizuki Takao), the protagonist of the film, also appears as a silent cameo appearance, albeit for a few frames. [5]

Voice cast

Kamiki Ryunosuke from "Godzilla Minus One" at Red Carpet of the Tokyo International Film Festival 2023 (53347030212) - cropped.jpg
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Ryunosuke Kamiki and Kana Hanazawa are the only voice actors to appear all three films in different roles.

Reception

Box office

TitleBox office gross revenueBox office admissions
EnglishJapaneseJapan [6] WorldwideJapanWorldwide
Your Name Kimi no Na wa¥25,170,000,000$405,340,703 [7] [8] 19,300,000 [9] 45,178,383 [e]
Weathering with You Tenki no Ko¥14,940,000,000$193,715,360 [16] 10,510,000 [17] 29,800,000 [18]
Suzume Suzume no Tojimari¥14,230,000,000$323,638,107 [19] 10,900,000 [20] 47,000,000 [21]
Total¥54,340,000,000$922,694,17040,710,000121,978,383

Critical response

English titleJapanese title Rotten Tomatoes RT's critics consensus Metacritic
Your Name Kimi no Na wa98% (118 reviews) [22] "As beautifully animated as it is emotionally satisfying, Your Name adds another outstanding chapter to writer-director Makoto Shinkai's filmography."81% (26 reviews) [23]
Weathering with You Tenki no Ko93% (95 reviews) [24] "Beautifully animated and narratively engaging, Weathering with You further establishes writer-director Makoto Shinkai as a singularly talented filmmaker."72% (30 reviews) [25]
Suzume Suzume no Tojimari96% (135 reviews) [26] "Suzume sees director Makoto Shinkai falling just a bit short of the bar set by previous outings – but when the results are this visually thrilling and emotionally impactful, it's hard to find much fault."77% (27 reviews) [27]

Accolades

Disaster trilogy received numerous awards and nominations largely for excellence in writing, directing, animation, and composing score. In Japan Academy Film Prize, the three films together won Outstanding Achievement in Music to Radwimps for his composing score, in addition of other films: Your Name won Screenplay of the Year (the first animated film to do so) and a juried Alumni Award for Best Film category, and Weathering with You won Animation of the Year. [28] [29] [30]

The trilogy also received accolades from international award ceremonies including Annie Awards and Crunchyroll Anime Awards, the former received thirteen nominations altogether (but did not win) and the latter received seven nominations, winning Film of the Year twice to Your Name and Suzume, respectively. In Asia Pacific Screen Awards, the trilogy received nominations for each, winning once for Weathering with You. [31]

The trilogy submitted Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature, alongside with Weathering with You selected Japan's entry for Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, [32] but they were ultimately not nominated or make the shortlist.

Annie Awards

TitleCeremonyCategoryResultRef.
Your Name 44th (2017) Best Animated Feature — Independent Nominated [33]
Outstanding Achievement for Directing in an Animated Feature Production
Weathering with You 47th (2020)Best Animated Feature — Independent [34]
Outstanding Achievement for Animated Effects in an Animated Production
Outstanding Achievement for Directing in an Animated Feature Production
Outstanding Achievement for Writing in an Animated Feature Production
Suzume 51st (2024) Best Animated Feature [35]
Outstanding Achievement for Animated Effects in an Animated Production
Outstanding Achievement for Character Animation in an Animated Feature Production
Outstanding Achievement for Music in an Animated Feature Production
Outstanding Achievement for Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production
Outstanding Achievement for Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production
Outstanding Achievement for Writing in an Animated Feature Production

Asia Pacific Screen Awards

TitleCeremonyCategoryResultRef.
Your Name 11th (2017) Best Animated Film Nominated [36]
Weathering with You 13th (2019)Won [31]
Suzume 16th (2023)Nominated [37]

Crunchyroll Anime Awards

TitleCeremonyCategoryResultRef.
Your Name 2nd (2018) Best Film Won [38]
Suzume 8th (2024)Won [39]
Best Anime SongNominated
Best Score
Best Voice Artist Performance (Spanish)
Best Voice Artist Performance (German)
Best Voice Artist Performance (French)

Japan Academy Film Prize

TitleCeremonyCategoryResultRef.
Your Name 40th (2017) Animation of the Year Nominated [28]
Director of the Year
Screenplay of the Year Won
Outstanding Achievement in Music
Alumni Award for Best Film
Weathering with You 43rd (2020)Animation of the Year [29]
Outstanding Achievement in Music
Suzume 46th (2023)Outstanding Achievement in Music [30]
Animation of the YearNominated

Satellite Awards

TitleCeremonyCategoryResultRef.
Your Name 21st (2017) Best Animated or Mixed Media Feature Nominated [40]
Weathering with You 24th (2019) [41]
Suzume 28th (2024) [42]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Sometimes stylized as Your Name. or your name.
  2. ↑ The kanji for "Taki" combines the characters for "water and "dragon." The surname "Tachibana" means "standing flower."
  3. 1 2 Cameo only in Weathering with You.
  4. ↑ The name "Mitsuha" literally translates to "three leaves." She was named as such by her parents (in the film, her mother; in the light novel, her father) in line with the nomenclaturial tradition of her grandmother and mother. From Hitoha onward, the Miyamizus are named via "leaves," with which a number (in the kun reading) denotes the ordinality of their geniture: "Hitoha" = one leaf; "Futaba" = two leaves; "Mitsuha" = three leaves; "Yotsuha" = four leaves. The surname "Miyamizu" translates to "shrine-water."
  5. ↑ Your Name box office admissions:
    • Japan – 19,300,000 [9]
    • China – 20,728,000 [10]
    • South Korea – 3,712,891 [11]
    • Europe (excluding Russia and Spain) – 627,384 [12]
    • United States and Canada – 580,000 [13]
    • Russia and Argentina – 169,600 [14]
    • Spain – 60,508 [15]

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