Following his short feature “Voices of a Distant Star”, which won him the Animation Kobe Award along with the Seiun Award for Best Media, director Makoto Shinkai continued his journey into animation, science fiction and love triangles in “The Place Promised In Our Early Days”. The movie, which was awarded Best Animation Film at Mainichi Film Concours, while exploring similar themes, has a much wider scale than his previous works. Similar to other works in Japanese animation, concepts like time, parallel worlds and combining various layers of reality constitute the foundation of a story following the lives of three individuals, but also hints at Japanese history and the nation’s outlook at an uncertain future.
The story takes place in an alternate version of the world, in which Japan not only lost World War II, but was also divided, with its north being occupied by the Soviet Union.
The story takes place in an alternate version of the world, in which Japan not only lost World War II, but was also divided, with its north being occupied by the Soviet Union.
- 9/20/2021
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
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