Starring: Hidetaka Yoshioka, Masato Hagiwara & Yuka Nanri
Written & Directed by: Makoto Shinkai
Genre(s): Animated, Anime
NO SPOILERS HERE!
I saw this movie when it was first released back in 2004 and I recently rediscovered it in my DVD collection.
One word describes this movie: BEAUTIFUL — the animation, the story, the characters and of course the music. What a marvelous piece of filmmaking!
The story is about three young students (Hiroki, Takuya & Sayuri) in Japan on a quest to discover the secrets behind a mysterious tower. A promise is made to fly there in airplane designed and built by Hiroki and Takuya.
HIROKI: Back then, I felt that this place, this time would last forever. The tower I admired that lay beyond the clouds… became the place of a precious promise. At that moment we weren’t afraid of anything. But in reality, the world and the flow of time kept on going all around me.
Music (“Hiroki’s Melody”):
