Makoto Shinkai, the filmmaker behind the hit anime movies Your Name and Weathering with You, has announced his next feature titled Suzume no Tojimari.
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A first look at the movie was shared along with the news that Suzume no Tojimari will be released in 2022. The visual includes a door at the center surrounded by water and a mossy, decayed cityscape. You can check out the full image below:
Makoto Shinkai’s latest film “Suzume no Tojimari” announced for 2022 release. pic.twitter.com/FjVWUx1pJe
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While no further official details about the anime feature have been released, the outlet notes that Shinkai teased his post-apocalypse movie in previous interviews, saying:
“It’s a story where something major happens that one’s own power can’t do anything to affect. By making this film, I want a part of people to think, ‘We’ll somehow manage to get by, won’t we?’ The coronavirus is a large-scale disaster, but over the decades of our lives, we’ll experience many forms of disaster, I think. Many things in society will come to a dramatic end, or be dramatically changed, but even after that, people will continue to find a way to survive.”
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A live-action version of Shinkai’s critically acclaimed Your Name, first released in Japan in 2016 and in the U.S. in 2017, is also in the works from Paramount Pictures, Bad Robot Productions, and Toho. The movie will be produced by Bad Robot’s J.J. Abrams and original producer Genki Kawamura.
