Suzume no Tojimari is one of the highest-grossing films of all time in Japan, and also one of the highest-grossing anime films of all time in Japan.

Makoto Shinkai (your name., Weathering With You) directed the film Suzume no Tojimari and wrote the screenplay. He is also credited as the author of the original story. Masayoshi Tanaka (your name., Weathering With You) is designing the characters. Kenichi Tsuchiya (your name., Garden of Words) is serving as animation director.

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Suzume no Tojimari Synopsis

Suzume no Tojimari tells about Suzume who is in high school. The girl has a strange dream where she sees a scene from her childhood, she is in an area filled with snow with no one else around. She saw herself as a small child hugging a chair alone.

She wakes up from her sleep and cycles to school where she passes a young man in his early twenties. Suzume looked at him because she found him handsome and she felt like she had seen the man before.

They passed each other and the man stopped her and asked if Suzume saw a door nearby. Of course, Suzume had no idea what he was talking about. Then he said, "Are there any abandoned buildings or areas nearby?" and he said there is an abandoned area around the old onsen nearby. He thanked Suzume and walked away.

Suzume cycles back to school but stops and for some reason is forced to go back to find the boy. Suzume went to the old onsen area, but she didn't find the man there. At a ruined onsen, there was a pool of water on the ground and Suzume saw doors and door frames amidst the ruins of the onsen.

It looked like the door was completely out of place, so Suzume walked over to it and opened the door. On the other side, she saw a night sky filled with stars and grassy hills. She walked past but she ended up on the other side of the doorframe in the onsen. It seemed Suzume could see the other side of the door, but couldn't enter that world. The opening of the door is the essence of the story Suzume no Tojimari.

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10 Facts about Suzume no Tojimari

1. Themed Natural Disasters like Makoto Shinkai's Other Works

As you know, Makoto Shinkai’s works have been themed around natural disasters. Just as the film Your Name brought about a meteor explosion, then the film Weathering with You brought about the phenomenon of flooding, this time Makoto Shinkai is back with an interesting fictional theme about earthquakes and tsunamis which is the theme of the story of Suzume no Tojimari.

2. Directed by CoMix Wave Films

As you all know, this anime film by Makoto Shinkai is known for its animation quality and amazing character designs with all the details that make this work come alive. This is because Makoto Shinkai is working again with CoMix Wave Films, which has worked with several other Makoto Shinkai films. This studio is established in 2007 and is incorporated into CoMix Wave Inc.

Meanwhile, Masayoshi Tanaka, who was previously involved in the films Your Name and Weathering with You, returned to design the character. Apart from anime films, he is also known for designing many popular anime such as Darling in the FranXX, Highschool of the Dead, Bleach, AnoHana, and many more.

3. The Soundtrack is by RADWIMPS

Suzume no Tojimari is Makoto Shinkai's third collaboration with a Japanese rock band, RADWIMPS. Previously, RADWIMPS also made the soundtrack for Makoto Shinkai’s other works such as Your Name and Weathering with You.

In their collaboration, RADWIMPS contributed the opening and ending songs, where they worked with composer Kazuma Jinnouchi to be responsible for the overall background music of this anime film.

4. The concept of Road Movie

Suzume no Tojimari has the concept of "Road Movie", which means you will be invited to explore several areas, especially in Japan through the film Suzume no Tojimari.

Of course, such a concept is quite a challenge, because films must present different details for each location, starting from the scenery and atmosphere, to the dialect of the voice actor, which must be adapted to the location.

5. A Debut for the Main Voice Actor

The key to an anime film is the voice actor, usually a seiyuu or big voice actor who has starred in many anime chosen to join in the production of big anime films such as Suzume no Tojimari.

However, Makoto Shinkai's 13th work chose Nanoka Hara and Hokuto Matsumura who were successfully selected from thousands of other people who auditioned as Suzume Iwato and Souta Munakata.

Another challenge is that Hokuto, who plays Souta Munakata, is a character that has never been seen before in any director's work. 

Even though they just debuted as voice actors, Nanoka and Hakuto managed to prove their skills by succeeding in making these two characters come alive in this film.

6. Become the Best-Selling Film in Japan

Suzume no Tojimari just premiered in Indonesia this year, but this anime film was released on November 11, 2022 in Japan. The anime film itself managed to sell around 1.33 million tickets in Japan in just its first three days of broadcast.

So they managed to achieve a profit of around 13.9 billion yen or the equivalent of Rp. 157.2 billion rupiah. This extraordinary income can even beat the two previous Makoto Shinkai films, namely Your Name and Weathering with You.

7. A Hidden Meaning in Suzume no Tojimari Poster

Posters are an important part of film promotion, so the poster must also contain important information that potential viewers must know. Posters must also have visuals that can attract the attention of many people. The Suzume no Tojimari poster aside from having an attractive visual also has a hidden meaning.

According to Makoto Shinkai, the poster for Suzume no Tojimari, which depicts the main character Suzume standing in front of the door holding a chair, implies that everyone must be willing to take responsibility for what they have started. So it is described like that in the poster.

8. The Story is Based on Japanese Mythology

Japan is indeed a country known for its various myths, so it's not surprising that many anime adopt popular myths into several of their fictional stories. 

Suzume no Tojimari itself takes the mythology about earthquakes and cats. As a country prone to earthquakes because it has many volcanoes, Japanese people believe that earthquakes that occur are caused by a giant dragon called namasu moving underground, causing earthquakes.

Besides that, according to Japanese mythology, a cat character named Daijin in the film Suzume no Tojimari is believed to be an animal capable of bringing humans into another world. That is why there is a Daijin in the film.

9. Award Nominations

After the success of Kimi No Na Wa in 2016, Makoto Shinkai's name continues to climb and is considered to be one of the most talented anime film directors. This is because his works have different themes than other anime films and are considered truly classy.

Makoto Shinkai even won the Best Director and Best Animation Director awards at the Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2020 and the 26th Japan Movie Critics Awards.

Meanwhile, his latest film was nominated for the Best Animated Pictured category at the Hochi Film Award in December 2022. In addition, in the Mainichi Film Award award ceremony, nominates Suzume no Tojimari in the category of Best Animation Film and Ofuji Noburo Award.

10. Has a Fantasy Element Reminiscent of Studio Ghibli films

If you are a fan of Ghibli films, you will surely notice that Suzume no Tojimari presents a stronger fantasy element than Your Name and Weathering with You. So that the fantasy element reminds the audience of Ghibli Studio's anime, just look at how the existence of a chair and a cat that can talk like in Ghibli films.

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