Suzume
dir. Makoto Shinkai · 2022
Life is a journey of confronting and closing off the past to find peace and purpose in the present.
"Suzume" is an evocative tale blending fantasy and reality, where a young girl's quest to mend the past unfolds through mystical doors, inviting viewers into a visually stunning adventure that explores grief, growth, and the indelible ties of family.
Suzume, 17, lost her mother as a little girl. On her way to school, she meets a mysterious young man. But her curiosity unleashes a calamity that endangers the entire population of Japan, and so Suzume embarks on a journey to set things right.
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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 lies 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.
