A modern action adventure road story where a 17-year-old girl named Suzume helps a mysterious young man close doors from the other side that are releasing disasters all over in Japan.A modern action adventure road story where a 17-year-old girl named Suzume helps a mysterious young man close doors from the other side that are releasing disasters all over in Japan.A modern action adventure road story where a 17-year-old girl named Suzume helps a mysterious young man close doors from the other side that are releasing disasters all over in Japan.
- Awards
- 3 wins & 29 nominations
Nanoka Hara
- Suzume Iwato
- (voice)
Eri Fukatsu
- Tamaki Iwato
- (voice)
Shôta Sometani
- Minoru Okabe
- (voice)
Sairi Itô
- Rumi Ninomiya
- (voice)
Kotone Hanase
- Chika Amabe
- (voice)
Kana Hanazawa
- Tsubame Iwato
- (voice)
Ryunosuke Kamiki
- Tomoya Serizawa
- (voice)
- (as Ryûnosuke Kamiki)
Ann Yamane
- Daijin
- (voice)
Akari Miura
- Young Suzume
- (voice)
Nichole Sakura
- Suzume Iwato
- (English version)
- (voice)
Josh Keaton
- Sota Munakata
- (English version)
- (voice)
Jennifer Sun Bell
- Tamaki Iwato
- (English version)
- (voice)
Cam Clarke
- Hitsujiro Munakata
- (English version)
- (voice)
Roger Craig Smith
- Minoru Okabe
- (English version)
- (voice)
Bennett Abara
- Rumi Ninomiya
- (English version)
- (voice)
- (as Amanda Céline Miller)
Rosalie Chiang
- Chika Amabe
- (English version)
- (voice)
Allegra Clark
- Tsubame Iwato
- (English version)
- (voice)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaMakoto Shinkai cites the short story "Super-Frog Saves Tokyo" and the novel "Kafka on the Shore," both by Haruki Murakami, as well the anime film Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) as the main inspirations for this film.
- GoofsThe epicenter of the 2011 Touhoku earthquake was undersea, 45 miles off the East coast of Japan, so the worm couldn't possibly be responsible for it.
- Quotes
Singer: How much meaning must we overcome before we reach our destination?
- Crazy creditsThe title doesn't appear until around the 13-minute mark.
- ConnectionsFeatured in MsMojo: Top 10 Best Animated Movies of 2023 (2023)
Featured review
Missing Something ...
I love anime and most of director Shinkai Makoto's work - "The Place Promised in Our Early Days", "5 Centimeters per Second", "Children Who Chase Lost Voices", and "Your Name" are among the best anime in the past few years. I haven't yet seen "Weathering with You".
Unfortunately, "Suzume", his latest work, in my opinion does not live up to the quality of those other works. Don't get me wrong, the animation is just as good. But what was missing is the chemistry between the main characters and a compelling mystery in the story overall.
There is something to be said about reusing common tropes too much. A high school girl or boy protagonist is par for the course in Japanese media and especially in anime, but why does it always have to be that way? Surely sometimes we can get something different?
And the mysterious destruction of a town or city has already been done - and very well so - in "Your Name". Had we not seen these elements before, then I would say "Suzume" is a really good anime. Sadly, precisely because we have seen these elements before, then I have to say "Suzume" is an ok anime only.
If you're a fan of Shinkai Makoto - like I am - then you should watch "Suzume" so you can make up your own mind. If you're not, then probably skip this one because it is not among his best work.
Unfortunately, "Suzume", his latest work, in my opinion does not live up to the quality of those other works. Don't get me wrong, the animation is just as good. But what was missing is the chemistry between the main characters and a compelling mystery in the story overall.
There is something to be said about reusing common tropes too much. A high school girl or boy protagonist is par for the course in Japanese media and especially in anime, but why does it always have to be that way? Surely sometimes we can get something different?
And the mysterious destruction of a town or city has already been done - and very well so - in "Your Name". Had we not seen these elements before, then I would say "Suzume" is a really good anime. Sadly, precisely because we have seen these elements before, then I have to say "Suzume" is an ok anime only.
If you're a fan of Shinkai Makoto - like I am - then you should watch "Suzume" so you can make up your own mind. If you're not, then probably skip this one because it is not among his best work.
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- keikoyoshikawa
- May 25, 2023
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $10,932,037
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $5,001,705
- Apr 16, 2023
- Gross worldwide
- $132,181,655
- Runtime2 hours 2 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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