Trailer: The director of your name has presented his new film and it’s wonderful to cry!

The very poetic Les Enfants du temps Two years later, Japanese animated wonder Makoto Shinkai returned to the cinema with Suzume no Tojimari. The film, which does not yet have a French title, has released a visually elevated short trailer. A feature film promises to be as beautiful and sensual as your name or Les Enfants du temps.

Suzume no Tojimari, which means that Suzume closes the door (or doors), so it tells the story of a 17-year-old heroine. The latter, who lives on the island of Kyushu, meets a traveler looking for an ancestral door.

He will find lost traces in the mountains. The door is actually magical and opens in several places in Japan. But beware of those who close the door.

In the film 4, Makoto Shinkai appeared as the new grandmaster of Japanese animation, a worthy successor to Hayao Miyazaki. The filmmaker develops a world that combines fantasy and realism with fabulous poetry.

Your name, released in 2016, is the 6th biggest hit at the Japanese box office ahead of Titanic, Harry Potter and the Avatar. In France he gathered about 300,000 people. As for Les Enfants du temps, he gathered around 230,000 fans.

His other feature films, The Tower Behind the Clouds and Journey to Agartha, have not been released in French cinemas but are available on DVD and VOD.

However, in some respects, these first pictures are especially reminiscent of the magnificent Garden of Words, a short film shot in 2012 by Shinkai.

Suzume no Tojimari will land on November 11, 2022 in Japan. The date of the French speech has not been announced yet.

In any case, Japanese animation is experiencing unprecedented vitality in our region, as evidenced by the recent success of Le Train de l’Infini (over 700,000 admissions), My Hero Academia World Heroes Mission (250,000) and Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (500,000).