Kumo no mukô, yakusoku no basho (2004)

Director:

Makoto Shinkai

Writers:

Makoto Shinkai (story)
Makoto Shinkai (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

20 November 2004 (Japan)

Genre:

Animation | Drama | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Against all odds, a promise will be kept.

Plot:

In an alternate postwar timeline, Japan is devided into the Union-controlled North and the US-controlled South.

Plot Keywords:

Anime | Violin

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Hidetaka Yoshioka	...	Hiroki Fujisawa (voice)
Masato Hagiwara	...	Takuya Shirakawa (voice)
Yuka Nanri	...	Sayuri Sawatari (voice) (as Yuuka Nanri)
Unshô Ishizuka	...	Okabe (voice)
Kazuhiko Inoue	...	Tomizawa (voice)
Risa Mizuno	...	Maki Kasahara (voice)
Hidenobu Kiuchi	...	Arisaka (voice)
Masami Iwasaki	...	Emishi Seisakujo Koin / Eki Shanai Announce / Byoin Incho (voice)
Eiji Takemoto	...	Emishi Seisakujo Koin / TV News (voice)
Takahiro Hirano	...	Emishi Seisakujo Koin / Daigakuinsei (voice)
Takeshi Maeda	...	Daigakuinsei / Radio Hoso (voice)
Rie Nakagawa	...	Joshi Seito / Josei Kangoshi (voice)
Yûki Nakao	...	Joshi Seito (voice)
Maki Saitou	...	Joshi Seito / Josei Kangoshi (voice)
Kousuke Kujirai	...	Danshi Seito (voice)

Also Known As:

The Place Promised in Our Early Days (International: English title)

Runtime:

Japan:91 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:PG | UK:12 | Singapore:PG

Company:

ADV Films

Quotes:

Hiroki Fujisawa: [Narrating] 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.

Soundtrack:

Kimi no Koe

A film from which i didn't expect much but that impressed me

"Kumo no mukô, yakusoku no basho". I saw it without knowing much about the plot and it pleased me a lot. The film tells a story of fiction of three friends and of how time changes them.

It is very interesting how many Japanese films (not only anime) represent in a much more realistic way how human relationships are. And this is what happens with this film: although the story is fictive, the relationships are like real ones are.

This film is art. It is fantastic how the characters are drew. The ambient that you smell from the first image, the music... everything.

At the end, I felt something that I've only felt very few times: it was satisfaction. I felt satisfied although I didn't comprehend the plot completely. And that feeling, that from the very first moment invades you is unpayable.

I recommend it to you and... enjoy ;). I'm sure that although I don't write in English very well, and this comment didn't impressed you much, you will like this film.