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, Original Creator, Screenplay

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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May 1, 2024

daaphish

Mixed Feelings

*No Spoilers*
This review is for the film Suzume.

Summary:
Suzume is a film written by Makoto Shinkai and incorporates similar art and music, though the story tends to be more focused on adventure than romance. Suzume is an interesting character who is forced into an adventure and gradually grows as the story progresses. The film has excellent art and music. This may be of interest to you if you enjoy adventure stories or romance, although the romance is actually quite forced and detracts from the overall message of the film.

Story: 5/10
The story is generally interesting with some more action than Makoto Shinkai's other films. It explores themes ... of growing up, death, and grief; however, it also forces romance in a way that detracts from these themes. If this film focused more on the general relationships between characters and how they interact within the plot, then it would have been a phenomenal and meaningful film; likewise, Suzume would have grown more as a character, and the ending section's plot twist (no spoilers) would have been absolutely amazing. Instead, certain scenes are jarring and seem to force characters into behaving differently than expected, rather than growing naturally. The story calls Suzume to be a hero, but then it suddenly disregards her character to instead make decisions based on a forced love narrative that is crammed into the second half the story. Imagine falling in love with someone after knowing each other for a few days, and then deciding that you need to rescue that person because you are madly in love. It just completely ruins the story. Aside from this, the story is quite interesting, but random changes in characters' behaviors, which go unexplained, make the story frustrating to follow. Of Makoto Shinkai's films, this one has the least clear direction by the end. If there were no forced romance or sudden, unexplained character changes, then I would have rated the story an 8 or 9. I think the overall message is wonderful, and that ending section could have been spectacular.

Art: 10/10
As with Your Name, the art is stunning and is by far the highlight of the film.

Sound: 7/10
Radwimps wrote and performed the music for this film, and it is a wonderful soundtrack. The songs are fantastic, especially the main theme, but it feels like many songs don't line up with the story. This soundtrack also feels pretty repetitive.

Characters: 6/10
These characters aren't terrible. If the story focused on the adventure and themes of grief, loss, growing, etc., then I'd probably give this section an 8. However, the characters are blatantly forced throughout the story. The side characters are somewhat interesting, but they are static once the plot delves into the romance between character Suzume and a love interest that should have simply been a friend or adventure buddy. Again, if Suzume, as a character, were focused on the adventure and growth rather than romance, she could have been well-written. Her growth at the very end would have been beautiful; however, she is instead written to love an underdeveloped character rather than herself. As a therapist, I can certainly say that self-love will always be more important than loving a piece of furniture.

Enjoyment: 5/10
I really wanted to enjoy this one. At about a half an hour in, it seemed to be my favorite Shinkai film. From there, however, the quality of the story-telling and characters declined. I did enjoy the art and most of the soundtrack, but I was overall disappointed. This could have been the deepest Shinkai story, exploring more profound themes than he usually does, but instead he forced romance.

Overall: 6.6/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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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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