Suzume (2022)

November 11, 2022 (JP) • Animation, Drama, Adventure, Fantasy • 122m

Overview

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 Suzume embarks on a journey to set things right.

Director

Makoto Shinkai

Writer

Makoto Shinkai

Top Billed

Nanoka Hara

Keywords

magic door natural disaster calamity travel teenage girl female protagonist shrine supernatural creature enviromental journey anime great east japan earthquake great kantō earthquake adventure miyagi, japan bewildered disaster aftermath

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Top Billed Cast

Nanoka Hara

Suzume Iwato (voice)

Hokuto Matsumura

Souta Munakata (voice)

Eri Fukatsu

Tamaki Iwato (voice)

Shota Sometani

Minoru Okabe (voice)

Sairi Ito

Rumi Ninomiya (voice)

Kotone Hanase

Chika Amabe (voice)

Kana Hanazawa

Tsubame Iwato (voice)

Matsumoto Hakuō II

Hitsujiro Munakata (voice)

Ryunosuke Kamiki

Tomoya Serizawa (voice)

Ann Yamane

Daijin (voice)

Akari Miura

Young Suzume Iwato (voice)

Yoji Ueda

(voice)

Aimi

(voice)

Yuu Ayase

(voice)

Akihiro Tajima

(voice)

Ryoko Nagata

(voice)

Shinnosuke Imazu

(voice)

Kyo Yaoya

(voice)

Hinano Harumi

(voice)

Nanae Sumitomo

(voice)

Saori Seto

(voice)

Yuri Kimura

(voice)

Tamae Watanabe

(voice)

Tomomichi Nishimura

(voice)

Yoshino Aoyama

(voice)

Kaho Uesugi

(voice)

Kaito Ogawa

(voice)

Madoka Kayama

(voice)

Shinjirou Gouda

(voice)

Riku Sasakura

(voice)

Yuki Sorami

(voice)

Ayumi Tsuji

(voice)

Genta Nakamura

(voice)

Manatsu Hada

(voice)

Katsumi Fukuhara

(voice)

Asuka Maesako

(voice)

Riko Murozono

(voice)

Takuya Yokota

(voice)

Yukina Shuto

(voice)

Crew

Yojiro Noda

Songs

Yojiro Noda

Original Music Composer

Kazuma Jinnouchi

Original Music Composer

Toaka

Theme Song Performance

Yusuke Takeda

Theme Song Performance

Akira Kuwahara

Theme Song Performance

Satoshi Yamaguchi

Theme Song Performance

Kenichi Tsuchiya

Animation Director

Takumi Tanji

Art Direction

Masayoshi Tanaka

Character Designer

Makoto Shinkai

Director

Makoto Shinkai

Editor

Daisuke Tokudo

Key Animation

Moaang

Key Animation

Hirofumi Masuda

Key Animation

Takafumi Hori

Key Animation

Hidetsugu Ito

Key Animation

Ai Takashi

Key Animation

Takayo Nishimura

Key Animation

Bahi JD

Key Animation

Hiroyuki Aoyama

Key Animation

Minoru Ohashi

Key Animation

Shunsuke Hirota

Key Animation

Junpei Tatenaka

Key Animation

Yuki Hayashi

Key Animation

Chiyoko Ueno

Key Animation

Keisuke Kobayashi

Key Animation

Atsushi Tamura

Key Animation

Maho Takagi

Key Animation

Keiko Kurosawa

Key Animation

Naoki Kobayashi

Key Animation

Luke Asuka Okamoto

Key Animation

Ichiko Hirose

Key Animation

Kenichi Tsuchiya

Key Animation

Shigeru Kimishima

Key Animation

Naoko Saito

Key Animation

Hiroshi Kawamata

Key Animation

Seiichi Akitake

Key Animation

Takuma Shinohara

Key Animation

Seigo Kitazawa

Key Animation

Shiori Fujisawa

Key Animation

Shin Hirayama

Key Animation

Tatsuya Akitsu

Key Animation

Saho Miyano

Key Animation

Akira Honma

Key Animation

Sakiko Yoshida

Key Animation

Tetsuya Ishii

Key Animation

Yuuga Tokuno

Key Animation

Keita Nagahara

Key Animation

Etsuko Kawano

Key Animation

Yuuya Geshi

Key Animation

Yoshiko Okuda

Key Animation

Madoka Yabunami

Key Animation

Chikashi Kubota

Key Animation

Yoko Miki

Key Animation

Asahi Takeuchi

Key Animation

Satoshi Nishimura

Key Animation

Shinpei Sawa

Key Animation

Ai Yukimura

Key Animation

KURO

Animation

Ayumi Nagaki

Prop Designer

Rina Kagiyama

Prop Designer

Kenichi Tsuchiya

Prop Designer

Kanako Tanabe

Prop Designer

Maho Takagi

Prop Designer

Anita Kim

Prop Designer

Hidetsugu Ito

Prop Designer

Masayoshi Tanaka

Prop Designer

Keita Nagahara

Prop Designer

Atsushi Tamura

Prop Designer

Kerorira

Key Animation

Ei Inoue

Key Animation

Anita Kim

Key Animation

Thuy Dung

Background Designer

Auttapon Boonsamai

Background Designer

Ngoc Xuan

Background Designer

Pham Van Cuong

Background Designer

Khammachat Suwan

Background Designer

Vo Thi My Tien

Background Designer

Thanh Ngoc Nguyen

Background Designer

To Nguyen Ngoc Huyen

Background Designer

Pham Thi Ngoc Han

Background Designer

Le Hoang Vu

Background Designer

Phuong Nhi

Background Designer

Ut Dy

Background Designer

Thu Yen

Background Designer

Hoang Ngoc Nguyen

Background Designer

Tuan Vu

Background Designer

Pichet Chaiyarin

Background Designer

Thu Ha

Background Designer

Yosanann Rujichayakhun

Background Designer

Tram Anh

Background Designer

Le Dinh Tri

Background Designer

Do Quan Thanh Truc

Background Designer

Theeranan Taejaroenkul

Background Designer

Vu Truong Thanh Hieu

Background Designer

Palin Thongsanthia

Background Designer

Thanh Thuy

Background Designer

Mai Chi

Background Designer

Watchara Horthong

Background Designer

Parinya Phetwiphat

Background Designer

Mai Dat

Background Designer

Nguyen Quoc

Background Designer

Duc Hai

Background Designer

Attachai Boonsmai

Background Designer

Aditep Meechaijreonying

Background Designer

Supakorn Kunpratum

Background Designer

Hong Quan

Background Designer

Do Quyen

Background Designer

Tasuku Watanabe

Assistant Art Director

Yuho Tomozawa

Assistant Art Director

Noritaka Kawaguchi

Executive Producer

Genki Kawamura

Producer

Haru Yamada

Sound Director

Yoshihiro Furusawa

Executive Producer

Sayoko Narukawa

Music Producer

Mizuki Ito

Sound Effects

Mizuki Ito

Foley Artist

Makoto Shinkai

Storyboard Artist

Kinue Ito

Producer

Ei Inoue

Second Unit Director

Masami Shimoda

Second Unit Director

Koichiro Ito

Producer

Yoko Miki

Assistant Director

Yoko Miki

Special Effects

Yoshitaka Takeuchi

CGI Director

Tatsuya Nomura

Compositing Artist

Wakana Okamura

Producer

Daichi Iseki

Compositing Artist

Yuuga Tokuno

Second Unit Director

Shiho Takeuchi

Key Animation

Atsuyuki Yukawa

Second Unit Director

Masataka Ikegami

Compositing Artist

Hitomi Watanabe

Compositing Artist

Tadashi Kinoshita

Compositing Artist

Hiromi Yamashita

Compositing Artist

Keita Nagahara

Second Unit Director

Katsuya Shigehara

Second Unit First Assistant Director

Tomoko Yamamoto

Color Designer

Manabu Komatsu

Compositing Artist

Toshihide Fujii

Compositing Artist

Nobuhiro Nagayoshi

Online Editor

Tomohiro Tokunaga

Production Supervisor

Ryuta Nakagami

Compositing Artist

Kenji Imura

Second Unit Director

Nana Harada

Second Unit Director

Ayako Hagiwara

Special Effects

Masahiko Yagi

Compositing Artist

Atsushi Takeyama

Compositing Artist

Yuki Teramoto

Compositing Artist

Daigo Matsumoto

Compositing Artist

Ryuji Hirakawa

Compositing Artist

Ryosuke Tsuda

Director of Photography

Hidetsugu Ito

Creature Design

Kei Machida

Compositing Artist

Ryosuke Tsuda

Compositing Artist

Kenji Fujita

Compositing Artist

Kazuya Iwai

Compositing Artist

Yoko Miki

Compositing Artist

Tomokazu Ohishi

Compositing Artist

Hiroyuki Ishizaka

Music Editor

Minako Tsuneya

Compositing Artist

Hiroyuki Chiba

Compositing Artist

Yui Tsukane

Online Editor

Yuna Azuta

Compositing Artist

Masashiro Watanabe

Background Designer

Kazuki Yamanaka

Production Assistant

Yuina Asai

Background Designer

Kyosuke Sawada

Production Assistant

Yui Sakamoto

Production Assistant

Shogo Ito

CG Artist

Toya Tanabe

CG Artist

Rensei Yamamoto

Background Designer

Takashi Date

Animation Manager

Ryuta Hayashi

Background Designer

Yoshikatsu Matsumoto

Conceptual Design

Mariko Kohara

Background Designer

Yuna Murooka

Background Designer

Kotomi Kuwabara

Background Designer

Kaisei Kobayashi

Background Designer

Mayu Higuchi

Background Designer

Wang Baoqi

Background Designer

Mao Izawa

Background Designer

Shunsuke Negishi

Background Designer

Onoo Fujii

Background Designer

Akira Hirosawa

Background Designer

Kaoru Takino

Background Designer

Akiko Majima

Background Designer

Yumi Ishii

Background Designer

Leonardo Ken Usami

Background Designer

Kaori Izumiya

Background Designer

Yuta Chimoto

Background Designer

Kenta Nakajima

Background Designer

Junko Ina

Background Designer

Hitomi Haga

Background Designer

Yuki Nomura

Background Designer

Eriko Nakamura

Background Designer

Akiko Kazato

Background Designer

Chie Akitake

Background Designer

Atsushi Satomi

Background Designer

Nobutaka Ike

Background Designer

Saho Yamane

Background Designer

Ryota Goto

Background Designer

Minami Kasuga

Background Designer

Hiroki Makino

Background Designer

Takumi Hashimoto

Background Designer

Shingo Kanai

Background Designer

Atsushi Yokoyama

Background Designer

Chihiro Okawa

Background Designer

Teng Chong

Background Designer

Saki Maeda

Background Designer

Mio Takemura

Background Designer

Yuika Okawa

Background Designer

Hiroaki Hirata

Background Designer

Yusuke Yanagisawa

Background Designer

Anna Hashimoto

Background Designer

Hinako Yamaguchi

Background Designer

Eri Sodeyama

Background Designer

Akane Iwasaki

Background Designer

Akane Nishizawa

Background Designer

菅田峰晃

Background Designer

Taketo Gonpei

Background Designer

Zhou Jixin

Background Designer

Tenmon Funakawa

Background Designer

Rino Sugiyama

Background Designer

Taichi Uchima

Background Designer

Yuta Sakashita

Background Designer

Masae Kurosawa

Background Designer

Yasuhiro Yamane

Background Designer

Keiichiro Shimizu

Background Designer

Nanami Sakata

Background Designer

Nao Yoshida

Background Designer

Rio Takeda

Background Designer

Hiroshi Nitta

Background Designer

Yuji Onuki

Background Designer

Shiori Shiwa

Background Designer

Kanako Iwaki

Background Designer

Haruka Masuo

Background Designer

Yuri Ishikawa

Background Designer

Anna Takahashi

Background Designer

Tomoya Asami

Background Designer

Jun Osano

Background Designer

Kousuke Washizu

Background Designer

Takehiko Segawa

Background Designer

Hisako Saitou

Background Designer

Miho Tokita

Background Designer

Tadashi Nakajima

Background Designer

Yuki Sonoda

Background Designer

Riku Shukunobe

Background Designer

Mizuki Endo

Background Designer

Minako Shimada

Background Designer

Ayumi Kojima

Background Designer

Genkou Ou

Background Designer

Yuhei Kikuchi

Background Designer

Masato Kadota

Background Designer

Chen Jianyu

Background Designer

Zhang Ying

Background Designer

Liu Yiyue

Background Designer

Zhu Lipiao

Background Designer

Zhang Junyi

Background Designer

Wu Pengfei

Background Designer

Li Hao

Background Designer

Zhou Honjian

Background Designer

Weng Yang

Background Designer

Aya Harisaki

Background Designer

Mai Nakajima

Background Designer

Yusaku Nakamura

Background Designer

Hirotake Kamata

Production Assistant

Makoto Shinkai

Screenplay

Makoto Shinkai

Original Story

Satomi Nagao

Animation

Yusuke Takeda

Original Music Composer

Akira Kuwahara

Original Music Composer

Satoshi Yamaguchi

Original Music Composer

Reviews

CinemaSerf

⭐ 6/10

April 16, 2023

"Suzume" is cycling to school one morning when she encounters a strange young man who asks her for directions to the nearest ruin! She sends him off in the direction of a dilapidated complex and continues her journey. Gradually, though, she begins to wonder who he was and what he was up to. Quickly, she races to find him and encounters a door - sitting in the middle of a wet patio. She opens it to see another world on the other side. If she crosses the threshold, though, it becomes her own world with the other world, well, still on the other side... On the ground she notices a small carving. It looks like a cat, hang on - it is a cat - and suddenly all hell breaks loose as a giant worm tries to enter her world through the door. Luckily, her wanderer, "Souta", had also found the door and together they close it and lock it with a magical key. He explains that there are loads of these portals around the Earth and it is his job as a "closer" to keep them shut else the planet will be destroyed. Now, back to the cat. It seems that it has a special purpose here, and when it appears to curse "Souta" - turning him into a yellow, three-legged child's chair (that previously belonged to "Suzume") we find their investigations take on a bit of a comical effect as they rush from door to door chasing the open wormholes and the cat - all while slowly discovering that they might be falling in love. It's quite fun for the first half hour with plenty of action, a bit of humour with the hobbling wooden seat and as we establish the story and the characters. Thereafter, though, I found this to be a little too repetitive with the story recycling itself a bit too often. There are a few extra characters drafted in - her aunt, with whom she lives, and a lady who runs a bar who takes her in for the night - but they don't really add very much to what is essentially a short story stretched out for two hours that could easily have been shorter and more condense. The production is colourful and the standard of animation throughout is bright and vivid, and I did quite enjoy it - but as a story it really lacks substance as it progresses to it's eventual close. To be fair, that denouement is not as predictable as you might have thought and it tests the mettle and the affections of all concerned as many of the assumptions that we (had all) made as the story developed become questionable. By that stage, though, I had sort of lost interest in "Suzume" as a lead character.

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Chris Sawin

⭐ 9/10

April 18, 2023

With a compelling story, jaw-dropping animation and impressive action sequences, _Suzume_ is a contender for Makoto Shinkai’s most thrilling and enjoyable film to date.

It’s an uninterrupted adventure with relentless twists and turns and no brakes. You’ll easily fall in love with the film’s rich and detailed animation, not to mention the jazzy and stylish score provided by rock band Radwimps and composer Kazuma Jinnouchi that would make even Y… read the rest.