The film told the story of a high school boy who befriends a girl with the power to control the weather through prayer.

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Nanoka Hara (left) and Hokuto Matsumura (right) provided the voices for Suzume and Souta, respectively.

The film follows 17-year-old high school girl Suzume Iwato and young stranger Souta Munakata, who team up to prevent a series of disasters across Japan by sealing doors from the colossal, supernatural worm that causes earthquakes after being released. The idea for a chair partner came when Shinkai saw a wooden chair sitting at a deserted bus stop, and found its "foreign feeling" to be better than any of his previous ideas. The movie grew to become the fifth highest-grossing film of all time in Japan, as well as the third highest-grossing anime film of all time (under Spirited Away and Demon Slayer: Mugen Train).

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We hope you enjoy our growing collection of HD images to use as a background or home screen for your smartphone or computer. Eisenbeis also criticized the appearance of a creature that Suzume encountered in Tokyo, describing it as "a cheap CG effect placed over the otherwise quality animation and blended poorly.

If you’ve seen either of Makoto Shinkai’s previous two films, you probably have an idea of what to expect. In China, director Shinkai participated in marketing activities in Beijing and Shanghai from March 16 to 20, becoming the first foreign film director to travel to mainland China for promotions since the emergence of COVID-19, fueling the popularity of Suzume in China. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average of 77 out of 100 based on 27 critic reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

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million viewers, surpassing The First Slam Dunk (2022) to become the highest-grossing and most-watched Japanese film ever released in the country. On April 9, 2022, an updated version featuring the film's protagonist was released online and as a full-page advertisement in the morning edition of The Asahi Shimbun newspaper. The cat leaps onto another ship as Souta tells Suzume that the cat is a "keystone", and that the worm was released after the keystone's removal from near the door. At a rest stop along the way, Suzume and Tamaki get into an argument, discovering that Tamaki is possessed by Sadaijin, the eastern keystone, who follows them for the rest of the trip.Suzume was released on Blu-ray and DVD in Japan on September 20, 2023, and includes English and Chinese-language subtitles.