Makoto Shinkai

Suzume 2022

A modern action adventure road story where a 17-year-old girl named Suzume helps a mysterious young man close doors from the other side that are releasing disasters all over in Japan.

Category: Action, Adventure, Animation

Stars: Nanoka Hara, Hokuto Matsumura, Eri Fukatsu

7.7 IMDB Rating 470 Views
Your Name / Kimi no na wa 2016

Two teenagers share a profound, magical connection upon discovering they are swapping bodies. Things manage to become even more complicated when the boy and girl decide to meet in person.

Category: Animation, Drama, Fantasy

Stars: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi, Ryo Narita

8.4 IMDB Rating 2,617 Views
Tenki no ko 2019

A high-school boy who has run away to Tokyo befriends a girl who appears to be able to manipulate the weather.

Category: Animation, Drama, Family

Stars: Kotaro Daigo, Nana Mori, Shun Oguri, Sei Hiraizumi

7.6 IMDB Rating 3,148 Views
The Place Promised in Our Early Days 2004

The story takes place in a alternate postwar period, in 1996, where Japan is divided. Hokkaido is ruled by the "Union" while Honshu and other southern islands are under US authority. A tall tower was built on Hokkaido, which could even be seen from Tokyo. In the summer of 1996, three middle-school students make a promise that they'll cross the border with a self-constructed plane and unravel the tower's secret, but their project was abandoned after the girl, Sayuri Sawatari, became mysteriously ill and transferred to Tokyo. Years later on the brink of another war Hiroki Fujisawa finds out that Sayuri had been in coma since then, and he asks Takuya Shirakawa to help him finding a way to wake her up.

Category: Animation, Drama, Kids, Romantic

Stars: Hidetaka Yoshioka,Masato Hagiwara,Yuka Nanri,Unshô Ishizuka

7.2 IMDB Rating 4,448 Views
5 Centimeters Per Second 2007

Takaki and Akari are two classmates in elementary school. During their time together they have become close friends. Their relationship is tested when Akari moves to another city because of her parents' jobs. Both of them struggle to keep their friendship alive, as time and distance slowly pulls them apart. When Takaki finds out that he is moving further away, he decides to visit Akari one last time.

Category: Animation, Drama, Kids, Romantic

Stars: Kenji Mizuhashi,Yoshimi Kondou,Satomi Hanamura,Ayaka Onoue

7.8 IMDB Rating 4,761 Views
The Garden of Words 2013

Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and again, but only on rainy days.

Category: Animation, Drama, Kids, Romantic

Stars: Miyu Irino,Kana Hanazawa,Fumi Hirano,Gou Maeda

7.6 IMDB Rating 4,465 Views