The Beauty and Melancholy: Shinkai Makoto Film Season concludes with Weathering With You, another huge commercial success in Japan following Shinkai’s breakthrough film Your Name.

Set in a Tokyo beset with endless rain, it follows another teenage girl and boy, each of them runaways for different reasons.

High school first-year student Morishima Hodaka has left his home on an isolated island to move to the city but quickly finds himself in financial trouble. Living his days in isolation, he eventually lands a job as a writer for a dubious occult magazine. One day in an alley, Hodaka meets a young girl named Amano Hina, bright and strong-­willed, who possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky.

The screenings are in Japanese with English subtitles. Duration: approx. 112 mins

*Please note that this movie is rated 12Aand is therefore not considered suitable for an audience younger than 12 years old unaccompanied by an adult

Guests who are booked to attend the screening can also enjoy 10% off drinks at The Stand on their way in.

*Please note that filming and / or photography may take place at this event. Photos and footage of the event may then be used to promote Japan House London, helping more people to discover what we offer. If you have any concerns, please contact us online or contact a member of the team on site.

Main image: Still from Weathering With You (2019), © 2019 Toho Co., Ltd. / CoMix Wave Films Inc. / Story Inc. / Kadokawa Corporation / East Japan Marketing Communications, Inc. / Voque Ting Co., Ltd. / Lawson Entertainment, Inc.

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