![]() Someone's Gaze), also directed by Shinkai. For the Japanese premiere, the film was screened with an animated short called Dareka no Manazashi ( だれかのまなざし, lit. The Garden of Words premiered at the Gold Coast Film Festival in Australia on Apand had its general release on in Japan. The age difference between the two main characters and their character traits demonstrate how awkwardly and disjointedly people mature, where even adults sometimes feel no more mature than teenagers, according to Shinkai. The story's motifs include rain, Man'yōshū poetry, and the Japanese garden. Shinkai wrote the story as a tale of "lonely sadness", based on the meaning of the traditional Japanese word for "love", and uses shoes as a metaphor for life. ![]() When Takao learns Yukari's identity, emotions come to a head as both learn that they have been teaching each other "how to walk". Yukari tells Takao nothing about herself, including her name, while Takao opens up to her, sharing his passion for shoes by offering to make a pair for her. While Takao is skipping his morning class to design shoes, Yukari is avoiding work due to personal problems in her professional life. The film focuses on Takao Akizuki, an aspiring 15-year-old shoemaker, and Yukari Yukino, a mysterious 27-year-old woman he keeps meeting at Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden on rainy mornings. The film was made into a manga, with illustrations by Midori Motohashi, and later novelized by Shinkai, both in the same year as the film. ![]() The theme song, "Rain", was originally written and performed by Senri Oe in 1988, but was remade for the film and was sung by Motohiro Hata. It stars Miyu Irino and Kana Hanazawa, and features music by Daisuke Kashiwa instead of Tenmon, who had composed the music for many of Shinkai's previous films. The Garden of Words ( Japanese: 言の葉の庭, Hepburn: Kotonoha no Niwa) is a 2013 Japanese anime drama film written, directed and edited by Makoto Shinkai, animated by CoMix Wave Films and distributed by Toho. ![]()
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