The Garden of Words
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The Garden of Words ( Kotonoha no Niwa) is amovie ?
Japanese anime drama released in 2013, written, directed, and edited by Makoto Shinkai.
produced by CoMix Wave Films and distributed by Tōhō. It stars Miyu
IrinoyKana Hanazawa, with music by Daisuke Kashiwa instead of Tenmon, who had been
the regular composer of the director. The main song, "Rain", was originally written and
performed by Senri Oe in 1988, but was redone for the movie and sung by Motohiro
Hata. The tape was adapted into a manga, with illustrations by Midori Motohashi, and later
novelized by Shinkai, both in the same year as the film.
The movie focuses on Takao Akizuki, a 15-year-old aspiring shoemaker, and Yukari Yukino,
a mysterious 27-year-old woman; they meet in the National Garden Shinjuku Gyoen, where
they both meet during rainy mornings. While Takao skips his classes.
Morning sessions to design shoes, Yukari avoids going to work due to personal issues in her
professional life. She does not tell him anything, including her name, while the boy is
opens up to the girl, shares her passion for shoes and offers to make her a pair. The emotions
they reach a critical point when Takao discovers Yukari's identity and they realize that
they have been teaching each other 'how to walk'. Shinkai wrote the story as
"lonely sadness", based on the traditional Japanese meaning of "love", and uses the shoes
as a metaphor for life. The motives include rain, poetryCollection of Ten Thousand Leavesand the garden
Japanese. According to the director, the age difference between the two main characters and their
character traits show how clumsily and disconnectedly people mature, where
Even adults sometimes do not feel more mature than teenagers.
The garden of words premiered in theGold Coast Film Festival, in Australia, on April 28
from 2013, and its general release in Japan was on May 31. In this last one, the film is
projected with a short animated film titledSomeone's GazeSomeone's gaze ?
by someone), also directed by Shinkai. The movie had an unusual schedule, as it
it was digitally released on iTunes the same day it premiered in Japanese theaters, and its DVD and Blu-
Ray was released while the film was still in theaters, on June 21. The film
has a license from Sentai Filmworks for the United States, Anime Limited in the UK
UnidoyMadman Entertainment in Australia. It was in theaters for a long time.
events and festivals. It had a very high ranking in iTunes Store during 2013 and was
selected as the best animation of the year in iTunes' Best of 2013. Won the
premioKobe Theatrical Film Award won awards at the International Festival of
Fantasy Cinema and the Stuttgart Animation Film Festival. The online reviews were
generally favorable with universal praise for the drawings, although opinions were
disparities regarding the length of the story, the plot, and the emotional climax.