Director Makoto Shinkai and producer Genki Kawamura produced the anime hit of the decade with Your Name, a film that set box office records in Japan and won fans around the world. Now their follow-up film, Weathering With You, will open tonight in limited preview screenings, followed by a wide release across the US this Friday. Is it just as good? The 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes speaks for itself.
The movie had its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, and its US premiere at the Animation is Film Festival in Los Angeles. The latter screening completely sold out. Both sub and dub versions of Weathering With You will be screened; don’t sell the dub short — it has the vocal talents of Lee Pace as Suga, Alison Brie as Natsumi, Riz Ahmed as Takai and many others.
The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is...
