Plot Summary: (PR) When Takao, a young high school student who dreams of becoming a shoe designer, decides to skip school one day in favor of sketching in a rainy garden, he has no idea how much his life will change when he encounters Yukino. Older, but perhaps not as much wiser, she seems adrift in the world. Despite the difference in their ages, they strike up an unusual relationship that unexpectedly continues and evolves, without planning, with random meetings that always occur in the same garden on each rainy day. But the rainy season is coming to a close, and there are so many things still left unsaid and undone between them. Will there be time left for Takao to put his feelings into actions and words? Between the raindrops, between the calms in the storm, what will blossom in THE GARDEN OF WORDS?
Makoto Shinkaiâs The Garden of Words Filmâs 1st 5 Minutes Aired
posted on 2013-05-11 23:19 EDT
Latest from 5 cm/s, Children Who Chase Lost Voices director heads to U.S. in 2013
TV Tokyo aired the first five minutes from The Garden of Words, the latest film from auteur director Makoto Shinkai (Voices of a Distant Star, 5 Centimeters Per Second), during the Saturday showing of his The Place Promised in Our Early Days film.
The Garden of Words begins in June during Japanâs rainy season. A shoemaker-in-training named Takao is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden when he meets a mysterious older woman. From that first encounter, the two continue meeting and deepening their relationship.
Shinkai previously wrote that The Garden of Words will be his first story about love in the traditional Japanese meaning of the word. Originally, âloveâ was written as âlonely sadnessâ (koi), and, according to Shinkai, the modern concept of âloveâ (ai) was imported from the West. While his new film is set in the modern era, it will be about koi in the original âlonely sadnessâ meaning â of longing for someone in solitude.
Kenichi Tsuchiya designed the characters and oversaw the animation process. Hiroshi Takiguchi served as the art director, and Daisuke Kashiwa composed the music. Miyu Irino and Kana Hanazawa headline the cast as Takao and Yukino, respectively. Motohiro Hata contributed the theme song âRainâ with lyrics and music by Senri Oe.
The 46-minute film will open in Japan on May 31, after Shinkai hosted its world premiere at at Australiaâs Gold Coast Film Festival (GCFF) last month. Sentai Filmworks will release the film digitally with a release on bilingual Blu-ray Disc and DVD to follow later this year.
Sentai Filmworksâ is proud to present Makoto Shinkai as their Anime Expo Guest of Honor 2013 and to announce the Premier of the English language dub.
Guest Appearances
Saturday 3:00PM to 4:00PM
Makoto Shinkai will introduce the English Premier in Video Room 1. Seating for 1,000. Open to the public.
Saturday 4:15PM to 5:00PM
Makoto Shinkai will sign autographs at The Garden of Words Green Carpet Event at Lounge 21. Free cocktails courtesy of Sentai Filmworks. Limited space available. Free VIP tickets available at Sentai booth - while supplies last.
Sunday 1:00PM
Industry Guest Panel for The Garden of Words
Sentai, and even Funi, events are no where near as awesome at the later-summer cons that I regularly attend. Sentaiâs panel at Otakon last year just canât compete with what has been posted here, to pick an example. TBH it seemed that it was a miracle for Sentai to get any panel @ Otakon 2012.
Hopefully there will be some awesomeness left in Sentaiâs tank for the later in the year cons.
Shinkaiâs Garden of Words to Be Screened with âDareka no Manazashiâ
posted on 2013-05-22 23:43 EDT
The official Twitter account of auteur director Makoto Shinkai announced on Wednesday that The Garden of Words anime film will be screened with his short Dareka no Manazashi. In addition, the film will be offered on iTunes at the same time that the film opens in Japan on May 31. Plus, the film will play simultaneously in theaters in Japan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
There are some names on there that I donât recognize (the ones with the bigger font). Are they all new(er) actors or should I be expecting to hear some old voices with new names mixed in there?
LOL. I had some issues with the tags on that post. Shoulda just taken out the other names but I wanted to play with the tagsâŠand I got tagged for it :laugh:
I guess in a way I donât know who Stephen Foster is, he keeps a low profile lol. Iâve seen David Williams and I know Matt Greenfield is âthat guy who looks eerily like George Lucasâ but Foster is just a big ? to me lol.
It does seem like I have heard Mike Yager after all but didnât really recognize the name thx.
Speaking of things that I missed, I totally missed that this has an English commentary track until now (relooked at the pix posted above). Now I am compelled to buy it. Maybe even several copiesâŠ
A few people on FandomPost have already received their copies. The movie and dub are getting great reviews. The male lead, Patrick Poole, has especially been getting raves. I was hoping to order this soon, but I may have to hold off. I just had $600 in car repairs done and we have to spend another $600 on surgery for our dog.
Now my interest in the dub is piqued, though I suspect it is from what is called âmorbid curiosityâ as Iâve found that âthe internetâ and I generally disagree on what makes a great dub. Though to clarify I, due to Fosterâs involvement, doubt that this will be a bad dub, instead suspecting that it just wonât live up to the hype.
How good is the movie by itself? âAbsent-minded older woman meets up with younger manâ has potential, kindaâŠI guess? Also, RightStuf sending this out over a month in advance is nice. Itâs even cheaper than Amazonâs offering (significantly). This helps ârestore my faithâ a bit in 'em after their sketchy sale.
Interestingly, as I post this the BD of this is cheaper than the DVD on RightStuf (by $0.75). Thatâs progress.
Subtitle of this should be âThe Ballad of the Beta Maleâ; the ex and the woman were perhaps more right than they knew when they referred to the protagonist as an âold womanâ. I take it that this is an example of those âherbivore menâ.
I guess this could be taken as a piece about how having a messed-up mother messes up the children. Maybe.
Though the Jackie Chan line âNot every Asian is Bruce Lee!â is definitely appropriate here.
I just watched the dub of this on bluray. The sound is royally screwed unless this is watched in 5.1. This has the most awkward audio mix for a 5.1 series that I think Iâve heard; why are the BGM and thunder FX on the primary channels and the dialogue really not?
To hear the dialogue I had to crank the volume but then when a peal of thunder went off it was so loud that the sub caused items to shake on my shelves.