![]() ![]() When Hina prays, the clouds part and sunlight pierces them - for a brief time. She is a Weather Girl, a modern incarnation of a shaman from the old fables. ![]() Hina’s modest demeanor conceals a legendary power. While living on the streets of Shinjuku, Hodaka meets Hina Amano, a gentle orphan who’s trying to care for herself and her precocious younger brother Nagisa. Oddball Keisuke Suga saves Hodaka when he‘s nearly swept off the ferry in a storm, and gives him an under-the-table job researching articles for a two-bit occult magazine. ![]() Fortunately, he meets two people who offer him lifelines. He takes shelter in alleys and an all-night manga cafe to escape the ceaseless downpour. Impetuous and impractical, he’s brought very little money and forgotten the student ID card he would have to show to apply for a part-time job. Hoping to find a more interesting life than his local high school offers, Hodaka Morishima runs away to a rain-soaked Tokyo. In both films, Shinkai turns a seemingly ordinary juvenile romance into a magical-realist journey - and a meditation on real social concerns. “Weathering With You,” his first feature since the record-breaking “Your Name” in 2016, confirms Makoto Shinkai’s place among the leaders of the new generation of anime writer-directors. ![]()
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