The Garden of Words

2013 [JAPANESE]

Action / Animation / Drama / Romance

39
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 84% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 84% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.4/10 10 59305 59.3K

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Plot summary

Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and again, but only on rainy days. They deepen their relationship and open up to each other. But the end of the rainy season soon approaches.

Director

Makoto Shinkai Photo
Makoto Shinkai

Top cast

Kana Hanazawa Photo
Kana Hanazawa as Yukari Yukino
Takanori Hoshino Photo
Takanori Hoshino as Itou-sensei
Taishi Murata Photo
Taishi Murata as (voice)
Yuka Terasaki Photo
Yuka Terasaki as Takao's Brother's Girlfriend
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
421.8 MB
1280*720
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles jp  
23.976 fps
12 hr 45 min
Seeds 8
866.02 MB
1920*1080
Japanese 5.1
NR
Subtitles jp  
23.976 fps
12 hr 45 min
Seeds 44

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by moises-z90 8 / 10

Garden of Words and Shinkai

Although I don't make reviews of movies (only read and maybe comment with friends), Shinkai's movies just force me to. My first comment was of, in my opinion is this director's best work to this day, 5 cm per second, and so this is going to be my second comment. With that long introduction said, I must say this movie surprised me, with a scenery a OST worthy of the highest regards (like Shinkai has us used to) and a character development spot on. Not the deepest analysis in each character (he couldn't do that in 45 min) but deep enough for the audience to understand them and know what they are going through which is the whole point of the movie. All this wrapped up with a spectacular climax. Although you feel the climax coming, you don't expect a climax like this, with that much energy, sentiment, and art, all in 2 min long. To finish, a little opinion on Shinkai, I have seen all his movies and I sense that him, with this movie, just realized what are his strong points: not huge movies with 8 characters and lots of themes (a ground where Miyasaki flourishes) but little situations where few characters stand for being truly humane and how they confront problems that ,at that time, mean the world to them and shape them for the future. He's a director that likes to test new grounds (part coming from being a young) but he's also getting reaching his full potential. That's why "Voices from a distant star", "5 cm per second" and this movie are his best work to date and "Voices from deep below" and "place promised" being his not so good movies (although I liked them).
Reviewed by Neon_Gold 6 / 10

Art In Motion With A Muddled Story

This movie is technically brilliant.It's colour pallet suits it's mood. It is animated immaculately. It is a marvel to watch. It has this natural element to its shorts and it has inserts of random elements of nature that just looks insanely good. It is so impressive.It also has a very pretty score that works well with its subdued mood.The story is where I start to find issue with the movie. It is such a short film and I think there is so much packed into it that it gets lost somewhat.I don't love the romance of the story I honestly think it would have been better being about friendship and two lonely people finding a friend in each other. I think that would have been much more poignant. The romance added this uncomfortableness to it which sort of flattened the story.The other issue is that the story is very unclear in areas. I think if the film was stretched out a little and had its run time at an hour rather than 45mins, it would have benefited tremendously. It would have had a little more time to flesh out the storylines. They all seemed crammed in and I got a bit lost.I think this is an incredible movie and with tiny changes it would have been amazing.
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