Suzume no Tojimari (Suzume)

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Synonyms: Suzume's Door-Locking

Japanese: すずめの戸締まり

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Type: Movie

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Nov 11, 2022

Producers: Aniplex, TOHO, JR East Marketing & Communications, Kadokawa, voque ting, STORY, Lawson Entertainment

Licensors: Crunchyroll

Studios: CoMix Wave Films

Source: Original

Genres: Adventure, Fantasy

Theme: Mythology

Duration: 2 hr. 1 min.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 8.31¹ (scored by 179,892 users)

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Ranked: #259²

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Popularity: #674

Members: 350,822

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Synopsis

On her way to school one day, Suzume Iwato stumbles upon Souta Munakata, a young man searching for abandoned areas. The high school girl directs Souta to a nearby ruin, but out of pure curiosity, she herself decides to head to the same destination.

Once there, Suzume discovers an isolated door with a dreamlike universe lying beyond it—a place that she can see and feel, but not enter. A strange stone rests on the ground nearby, but it turns into a cat-like creature and scurries away when Suzume lifts it. Suddenly afraid, she heads back toward her school, not realizing that her act of leaving the door open will have consequences.

With the "keystone" released, the evil within the other universe can now freely escape and wreak havoc throughout Japan. Intending to correct her dangerous mistake, Suzume joins Souta—whose true goal is to prevent evil from festering—in finding and locking all open doors before the country is destroyed.

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Background

The film had its first preview screening in IMAX on November 7, 2022. Suzume no Tojimari was nominated for Best Animated Feature Film at the 81st Golden Globe Awards.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Iwato, Suzume

Main

Hara, Nanoka
Japanese

Munakata, Souta

Main

Matsumura, Hokuto
Japanese

Daijin

Supporting

Yamane, Ann
Japanese

Serizawa, Tomoya

Supporting

Kamiki, Ryunosuke
Japanese

Iwato, Tamaki

Supporting

Fukatsu, Eri
Japanese

Sadaijin

Supporting

Yamane, Ann
Japanese

Iwato, Tsubame

Supporting

Hanazawa, Kana
Japanese

Okabe, Minoru

Supporting

Sometani, Shouta
Japanese

Amabe, Chika

Supporting

Hanase, Kotone
Japanese

Miki

Supporting

Terakawa, Aimi
Japanese

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Staff

Itou, Kouichirou

Producer

Shinkai, Makoto

Director, Original Creator, Screenplay

Yamada, Haru

Sound Director

Imura, Kenji

Episode Director

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Opening Theme

Suzume (すずめ) by RADWIMPS feat. Toaka

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Ending Theme

"Kanata Haluka (カナタハルカ)" by RADWIMPS

Reviews

May 7, 2024

FretAndForget

Recommended

👧🐈🪑🪱🚪

A gorgeous world, wonderful characters, and an engaging story.
Entrancing when you watch it and magically charming always.

The surprising, genuinely unexpected moments feel woven in well- funny cheerful moments to bring a spark to your eye so well as heartfelt plaintive moments tugging at your core.

There is only one scene that feels.. rocky, but it is brief and can be overlooked or explained without much fuss.

And through and through underneath the beautiful surface lies a powerful narrative fostered from tragically real events.
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May 1, 2024

daaphish

Mixed Feelings

*No Spoilers*
This review is for the film Suzume.

Summary:
Suzume is a film written by Makoto Shinkai and incorporates similar art and music, though the story tends to be more focused on adventure than romance. Suzume is an interesting character who is forced into an adventure and gradually grows as the story progresses. The film has excellent art and music. This may be of interest to you if you enjoy adventure stories or romance, although the romance is actually quite forced and detracts from the overall message of the film.

Story: 5/10
The story is generally interesting with some more action than Makoto Shinkai's other films. It explores themes ... of growing up, death, and grief; however, it also forces romance in a way that detracts from these themes. If this film focused more on the general relationships between characters and how they interact within the plot, then it would have been a phenomenal and meaningful film; likewise, Suzume would have grown more as a character, and the ending section's plot twist (no spoilers) would have been absolutely amazing. Instead, certain scenes are jarring and seem to force characters into behaving differently than expected, rather than growing naturally. The story calls Suzume to be a hero, but then it suddenly disregards her character to instead make decisions based on a forced love narrative that is crammed into the second half the story. Imagine falling in love with someone after knowing each other for a few days, and then deciding that you need to rescue that person because you are madly in love. It just completely ruins the story. Aside from this, the story is quite interesting, but random changes in characters' behaviors, which go unexplained, make the story frustrating to follow. Of Makoto Shinkai's films, this one has the least clear direction by the end. If there were no forced romance or sudden, unexplained character changes, then I would have rated the story an 8 or 9. I think the overall message is wonderful, and that ending section could have been spectacular.

Art: 10/10
As with Your Name, the art is stunning and is by far the highlight of the film.

Sound: 7/10
Radwimps wrote and performed the music for this film, and it is a wonderful soundtrack. The songs are fantastic, especially the main theme, but it feels like many songs don't line up with the story. This soundtrack also feels pretty repetitive.

Characters: 6/10
These characters aren't terrible. If the story focused on the adventure and themes of grief, loss, growing, etc., then I'd probably give this section an 8. However, the characters are blatantly forced throughout the story. The side characters are somewhat interesting, but they are static once the plot delves into the romance between character Suzume and a love interest that should have simply been a friend or adventure buddy. Again, if Suzume, as a character, were focused on the adventure and growth rather than romance, she could have been well-written. Her growth at the very end would have been beautiful; however, she is instead written to love an underdeveloped character rather than herself. As a therapist, I can certainly say that self-love will always be more important than loving a piece of furniture.

Enjoyment: 5/10
I really wanted to enjoy this one. At about a half an hour in, it seemed to be my favorite Shinkai film. From there, however, the quality of the story-telling and characters declined. I did enjoy the art and most of the soundtrack, but I was overall disappointed. This could have been the deepest Shinkai story, exploring more profound themes than he usually does, but instead he forced romance.

Overall: 6.6/10

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Apr 28, 2024

pii_per

Not Recommended

Somehow, this and Your Name happened to be a watch my non-anime fan family wanted to watch. And, initially, I didn’t feel compelled to watch it since I didn’t want to watch another Your Name. And, well, since it’s been some time since I watched it, well, perhaps my memory’s failing me, but it was notably worse than Your Name.

STORY (???/10)
Pacing was excruciatingly slow. What I thought was the turning point ended up being an hour in. Motifs and subplots lead to nothing. It was worse than being red herrings (like Spirited Away). They had no build up. The subplots were not tied up nicely, ... nor had any basis to exist. I don’t know who greenlit this, because this is not writing that would be found in a western children’s movie. No, it wouldn’t even be found in 7/10 anime known for its inconsistent writing.

ANIMATION (9/10)
Animation was, unsurprisingly, their main strong suit. As a stickler of bad 3D, it blended in nicely with the rest of the animation, making it much more bearable than other writing. Nothing stuck out weird and it was beautifully done.

SOUND (6/10)
Well, the music was decent, but not as hard hitting as in Your Name, which I can’t exactly blame Radwimps for. The theme song, Suzume, came only once, without any of the lyrics despite it being the title song practically. In a lot of anime, I can pick up on music and be like “wow, that really is catchy” but the only cool thing was a jazz-like song, which, was, unique, but didn’t mesh with everything else. The SFX sounds were smooth, even if the content that was being shot was questionable.

CHARACTERS (5/10)
Wow, were the characters ordinary. Even by anime archetype standards, we have a pushover who suddenly dislikes their only family member, and a hardheaded college student who seems dumber than rocks. And, for the other main character/rival/antagonist thing, they seemed to exist to force the story forward rather than explain their existence. Which, was how the other two main characters felt like to me. Especially toward the ending, MC was not only an idiot, but a selfish idiot. And that was praised for. I felt Emily in Paris (for our non-anime fans) level of awful. And, somehow, Belle’s MC had better character development than whatever we got here.

OVERALL (5/10)
If you want a typical anime movie that does the typical things and tries to do too many things at once, but fails at successfully doing any of them in the whole 2 hours, go for it. But, if you need a starter anime, just go for Your Name (even though that has its own set of issues). Or even the first episode of Oshi no Ko while you’re at it.

Well, I now have a reason to avoid this studio and be wary of their stuff. Which sucks because their animation is S-tier. But, if the story is awful, then, the animation is wasted on it.

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