In his latest film, Suzume, a teen girl races against time to save Japan from cataclysmic disaster, yet the more compelling maelstrom is the one rumbling inside of her. Suzume, however ...

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 ...

Anime director Makoto Shinkai’s latest feature film, “Suzume no Tojimari” (Suzume’s door locking), will be theatrically released in autumn, distributor Toho Co. has announced. It is ...

Shinkai's "Suzume no Tojimari" (Suzume’s door locking) is about a girl who remembers the devastating disaster and goes on a cross-country trip to contain mystical powers that trigger earthquakes.

The result was Suzume, an animated feature that has been a blockbuster in Japan and which held its international premiere at the Berlin Film Festival on Thursday. Drawn in lush greens and blues ...