At the recently awarded Golden Globes 2024, Suzume came away empty-handed in the best animated film category, but the fantasy spectacle was at the top of your ranking of the best films of 2023 and was also represented at the Berlinale last year.
Soon you will finally be able to bring the celebrated and visually stunning anime hit by Makoto Shinkai (Your Name, Weathering With You) home. The home cinema release is on April 5th and you can already pre-order the film on Amazon. You can choose from, among other things: a collector’s edition * and a limited steelbook * with different bonuses, as well as one normal Blu-ray * and DVD version *.
That’s what Suzume is about
The 17-year-old student Suzume lives a quiet life with her aunt Tamaki in a small Japanese town until one day she meets a stranger who is looking for a very special door. They also find these in a nearby ruin, but when Suzume opens the portal, threatens to plunge all of Japan into disaster.
Doors that can harbor dangers are suddenly opening all over the country Past, present and future blur let. Suzume then sets out with unusual companions to close all the doors in the disaster areas.
The anime hit Suzume is that good
As mentioned at the beginning, the animated film has also received a lot of attention internationally and has also received an extremely good rating in the Moviepilot community with 7.4 out of 10 points. According to editor-in-chief Jenny Jecke, the multi-layered fantasy story about a monstrous threat is “an overwhelming, funny and deeply moving one“Adventure. There was also in the FILMSTARTS review strong 4 out of 5 stars.
Accordingly, the anime artist developed an incredibly optimistic and funny anime blockbuster from the title heroine’s journey and her attempt to prevent great disaster in various abandoned places – despite the serious background.
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