Suzume no Tojimari

On her way to school one day, Suzume Iwato stumbles upon Souta Munakata, a young man searching for abandoned areas. The high school girl directs Souta to a nearby ruin, but out of pure curiosity, she herself decides to head to the same destination.

Once there, Suzume discovers an isolated door with a dreamlike universe lying beyond it—a place that she can see and feel, but not enter. A strange stone rests on the ground nearby, but it turns into a cat-like creature and scurries away when Suzume lifts it. Suddenly afraid, she heads back toward her school, not realizing that her act of leaving the door open will have consequences.

With the "keystone" released, the evil within the other universe can now freely escape and wreak havoc throughout Japan. Intending to correct her dangerous mistake, Suzume joins Souta—whose true goal is to prevent evil from festering—in finding and locking all open doors before the country is destroyed.

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Iwato, Suzume Main

Hara, Nanoka Japanese

Munakata, Souta Main

Matsumura, Hokuto Japanese

Daijin Supporting

Yamane, Ann Japanese

Serizawa, Tomoya Supporting

Kamiki, Ryunosuke Japanese

Sadaijin Supporting

Yamane, Ann Japanese

Iwato, Tamaki Supporting

Fukatsu, Eri Japanese

Iwato, Tsubame Supporting

Hanazawa, Kana Japanese

Okabe, Minoru Supporting

Sometani, Shouta Japanese

Amabe, Chika Supporting

Hanase, Kotone Japanese

Miki Supporting

Terakawa, Aimi Japanese

Itou, Kouichirou Producer

Shinkai, Makoto Director, Screenplay, Original Creator

Yamada, Haru Sound Director

Imura, Kenji Episode Director

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May 22, 2024

0004_1

Recommended

Not Much To say about this, But a very enjoyable watch.

Art - 10/10 The animation style is amazing, always a fan of the more advanced movie animation style as seen in kimi no na wa aswell. It brings soo much life to everything and the colour pallete is very recognisable.

Characters - 9/10 I enjoy pretty much every characters but dont LOVE any of them.

Story - 9/10 A pretty standard fantasy story tbh, but executed well.

Ost/Sound Design - 10/10 Radwimps on the Soundtrack is always a W, Voice acting is peak and sound effects are not grading to the ears.

Enjoyment - 8/10 - A Little bit ... long for my likings, probably coulda been made into 90 minutes but 120 is a longggg time and you start to feel it after a bit.

Overall - 9/10 Love the animation style, been on my watchlist since i watched the trailer a few days ago. Worth watching do not regret probably wouldn't come back unless i had a good high quality screen to watch it on.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Jun 2, 2024

JUANS0W

Mixed Feelings

Tbh, the animation is the only thing that makes this movie decent. At no point in the story do we get to see the genuine development between the main character and the co-star. They are always put in forced situations to make the plot advance unnaturally, it is not logical to form these supposed relationships with the protagonist in a few minutes with random people she meets and the main problem lies in a mystical cat that by apparent whim to see the world burn, made the protagonist make this senseless journey, and at the end she repented at the last moment as if nothing; ... I hoped that some plot would change for the better at some point in the story but the truth was that anything that could change the course of the story after 1 hour 45 minutes of film was unjustifiable.
The psychological trauma and family relationship problems could have been addressed in so many ways but they chose the worst.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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May 22, 2024

Twirox

Not Recommended

I can't recommend this movie to anyone who appreciates good storytelling or well-written characters, because you won't be finding any of those in this movie. This will be a very short, spoiler-free review.

Now that out of the way, let's focus on the positives. The visuals and sound were amazing, the voice acting was decent...and there were the positives.

The story was a complete mess and missed a clear direction. Most of the time things just seemed to happen on the screen with no explanation whatsoever. Sometimes there can be too much exposition, but this movie lacked it completely which is even worse. There were also many ... plot conveniences throughout the movie. There was also some forced romance, which felt just super awkward and very out of place.

The characters were 1-dimensional and bland, the dialogue was also just dreadful. The character writing was non-existent, there was just nothing to relate to. Needless to say I didn't really care for any of the characters.

Hope someone will find this review helpful.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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