Makoto Shinkai has released a character visual for Suzume, a still image, and the premiere date for his new animated film, Suzume no Tojimari (literally, Suzume's Door-Locking).
Suzume no Tojimari is set to premiere on November 11, 2022 in Japan.
Suzume no Tojimari is set to premiere on November 11, 2022 in Japan.
"We must think about how to close the many doors we left open,” says Director Makoto Shinkai as he continues work on the film. “I’ve bestowed that responsibility upon Suzume as she travels across Japan closing various doors. It is my sincere hope that this film leaves its audiences with big smiles and excitement as they walk out of the theater."
Makoto Shinkai is directing the film and writing the screenplay. He is also credited with the original story. Masayoshi Tanaka is designing the characters. Kenichi Tsuchiya is the animation director. Takumi Tanji is the art director. CoMix Wave Films and Story Inc. are producing the movie. TOHO is distributing the film.
SUZUME VISUAL:
STILL:
Makoto Shinkai is directing the film and writing the screenplay. He is also credited with the original story. Masayoshi Tanaka is designing the characters. Kenichi Tsuchiya is the animation director. Takumi Tanji is the art director. CoMix Wave Films and Story Inc. are producing the movie. TOHO is distributing the film.
TEASER VISUAL:
“All of time was behind that door—”
Suzume no Tojimari is officially described as:
Suzume, a 17-year-old girl who lives in a quiet town in Kyushu, meets a young man on a journey “looking for doors.” Suzume follows him to a ruin to a dilapidated building in the mountains and finds a free-standing, undisturbed door t as if “it” alone were saved from devastation. Suzume feels drawn by an invisible power and reaches out to the door... Soon, doors all over Japan start opening one after another. The doors that opened must be closed to shut out calamity that lays on the other side.
—Stars, sunset, and the morning sky. The places she wanders into have a sky where all hours of the day seem to blend together—
Beckoned by the mysterious doors, Suzume’s “journey of closing doors” begins.
Suzume, a 17-year-old girl who lives in a quiet town in Kyushu, meets a young man on a journey “looking for doors.” Suzume follows him to a ruin to a dilapidated building in the mountains and finds a free-standing, undisturbed door t as if “it” alone were saved from devastation. Suzume feels drawn by an invisible power and reaches out to the door... Soon, doors all over Japan start opening one after another. The doors that opened must be closed to shut out calamity that lays on the other side.
—Stars, sunset, and the morning sky. The places she wanders into have a sky where all hours of the day seem to blend together—
Beckoned by the mysterious doors, Suzume’s “journey of closing doors” begins.