Kumo no mukô, yakusoku no basho (2004)

User Rating:

7.5/10   

Director:

Makoto Shinkai

Writer:

Makoto Shinkai (writer)

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 (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jessica Boone	...	Sayuri Sawatari (voice: English version)
Matthew Crawford	...	Male Student (voice: English version)
James Z. Erivayer	...	Graduate Student (voice: English version)
Jacob A. Gragard	...	Emishi Plant Worker (voice: English version)
John Gremillion	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Illich Guardiola	...	Arisaka (voice: English version)
Hilary Haag	...	Female Student (voice: English version)
Jay Hickman	...	Graduate Student (voice: English version)
Adam Jones	...	Emishi Plant Worker (voice: English version)
Jacob Jones	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Andrew Love	...	Emishi Plant Worker (voice: English version)
Kalob Martinez	...	Takuya Sawatari (voice: English version)
Andy McAvin	...	Tomizawa (voice: English version)
Rob Mungle	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Chris Nelson	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Mariela Ortiz	...	Female Student (voice: English version)
Chris Patton	...	Hiroki Fujisawa (voice: English version)
Carl Ruthers	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
John Swasey	...	Okabe (voice: English version)
Lesley Tesh	...	Female Student (voice: English version)
Kira Vincent-Davis	...	Maki Kasahara (voice: English version)

Directed by
Makoto Shinkai

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Makoto Shinkai		writer

Produced by
John Ledford	....	executive producer
Makoto Shinkai	....	producer
Mark Williams	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Tenmon

Film Editing by
Makoto Shinkai

Art Department
Makoto Shinkai	....	color designer
Makoto Shinkai	....	storyboard artist

Sound Department
Makoto Shinkai	....	sound director

Animation Department
Takumi Tanji	....	background artist
Ushio Tazawa	....	character designer
Ushio Tazawa	....	chief animation director

Production Companies

• ADV Films
• CoMix Wave

Distributors

• ADV Films (2005) (USA) (DVD)
• CoMix Wave (2004) (Japan) (theatrical)
• CoMix Wave (2005) (Japan) (DVD)

Other Companies

• CoMix Wave  soundtrack

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:

Sayuri Sawatari: The sky, the clouds, the ruined city... No matter how far I walk, nobody appears.

Soundtrack:

Kimi no Koe

beautiful.. and brilliant...

I rarely ever watch anything more than once, but this was my 3rd time watching this today, and I had even bought the DVD.. and I still think its as great as the first time I watched it. I think I feel some nostalgic connection to it somehow, I appreciate how brilliant the boys are, actually building something like that.. successfully.. while being so young. I guess I've always wanted to accomplish something like that. I also like the attention to technical detail like soldering and UNIX command lines. Even if you aren't into the story or the characters, watch it for the animation. Some of the most beautiful scenes I think I may ever see. Especially for those you who tend to like sunsets. I can hardly think of anything I don't enjoy about it, some people have said it doesn't feel tight or whole or well put together, but I think the pacing really isn't that bad, only thing that bothers me slightly is all the fades to black that are used for scene transitions, but really I'm not sure what else would have been better, it makes it a whole lot less confusing than just cutting to scenes and having to figure out whats going on and if its a different place or time. The DVD release is decent, some good interviews (motoko shinkai seems like a real nice guy), video quality is good, audio is fine (dont know about the English voice actors, id be afraid to really watch it in English). its good.