Suzume No Tojimari, a new anime film from the brilliant writer, director, and animator, Makoto Shinkai will be released in theatres in early 2023 by Crunchyroll in collaboration with Sony Pictures. The film is to be globally released apart from Asia.
Written and directed by Makoto Shinkai (Your Name, Weathering With You), the film is being produced by CoMix Wave Films. Suzume No Tojimari will be a Science Fiction Animated Adventure film that will be distributed by Toho, the film has been written and directed by Makoto Shinkai.
The film is about a girl Suzume who meets a boy who is looking for a door and when they find a door, after opening it “Doors Of Disasters” begin to appear all through Japan that starts unfortunate events and it Suzume’s responsibility to lock all of them hence, she goes on an adventure all through Japan.
Makoto Shinkai, in an interview, said that this film was planned for 2020 and the script writing started in April 2020 and the production of the film started in April 2021. The film’s character design has been done by Masayoshi Tanaka who also did Weathering With You & Your Name, and Kenichi Tsuchiya as the animation director who also worked on Your Name & Weathering With You.
The Teaser for the film has been released and it looks promising as all of Makoto Shinkai’s previous works. The film will be released in Japan in Nov 2022.