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MAKOTO SHINKAI MARATHON – Shinkai Double Bill – 5 Centimeters Per Second & Garden of Words | Mockingbird Cinema, Screen 1, B9 4AA | 109 mins | Rated 12 |Saturday 30th September 2023 | 13:30

©Makoto Shinkai/CoMix Wave Films
©Makoto Shinkai/CoMix Wave Films 

 

 

5 CENTIMETERS PER SECOND

Takaki and Akari became best friends after transferring into the same elementary school. However, the two are separated following their elementary school graduation. As they place their feelings for each other behind them, time simply passes by. Then one snowy day, Takaki is about to be reunited with Akari. As he sits on the train from Tokyo, his meeting time with Akari drawing ever closer, memories of the past rush through Takaki’s head.

Join Takaki on a journey into three interconnected tales of love and lost innocence that span the minutes and months of their lives.

 

 

 

©Makoto Shinkai/CoMix Wave Films
©Makoto Shinkai/CoMix Wave Films 

 

 

GARDEN OF WORDS

When Takao, a young high school student who dreams of becoming a shoe designer, decides to skip school one day in favour 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, with random meetings 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?

 

 

 

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