The movie explores how precious such contact can be when people are separated by an almost immeasurable distance. Their only contact is a mobile phone that becomes increasingly unreliable as a form of communication the further the teenage girl goes into outer space, the longer it takes for her text messages to reach Earth. His next work, the science-fiction short Voices of a Distant Star, employed the same theme to depict the enduring adolescent love between two youths, one of whom is traveling through the depths of space. It introduces the theme of distance between souls. The film features a cat that narrates different periods of his life with his owner. Shinkai’s first project was a black-and-white five-minute short, She and Her Cat. His newest movie, Weathering with You, addresses many of these same themes while simultaneously exploring how we influence our environment. His movies are well known due to his animation style and continuous adherence to particular themes and subjects, including distance between souls, adolescent love, and Japanese myths. Despite this recent worldwide renown, Shinkai has been making films for the better part of two decades. The movie broke records and put Shinkai on the map as the heir apparent to Japanese animation legend and Studio Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki. Makoto Shinkai achieved international prominence following the release of 2016’s Your Name. Still from Weathering with You, directed by Makoto Shinkai (all images courtesy of GKids)
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