This is when Makoto Shinkai’s skills as a director and storyteller comes in.
However, he chose the worst season to travel on train – during the winter. The cherry blossoms symbolizes the short-lived yet sweet relationship between Takaki and Akari, and how their relationship “falls with the cherry blossoms.”ĭuring the second half of the first arc, Takaki travels to see Akari for one final time before moving to Kagoshima. In a way, the story is about how both of them start together and go their separate ways, whether it be by choice or not. The season for the bloom of cherry blossoms is known as Hanami (花見), where during the time of their bloom, many people sit under cherry trees and admire the short-lived beauty of these flowers. This represents the short yet beautiful nature of life. However, after two weeks or so, the blossoms start to fall. In Japanese culture, cherry blossoms represent the coming of spring and the beauty of life. At the start of the movie, Akari says that cherry blossoms, or sakura (桜), fall at “five centimeters per second,” hence the title of the film. We get to see them become close friends and grow apart when Akari moves to Tochigi. The first arc, titled “Cherry Blossoms,” constantly uses Cherry Blossoms as a motif and shows the initial beauty of Takaki and Akari’s friendship. Luckily, these transitions do not feel abrupt as each story concludes before the next, giving us, the viewers, a sense of closure. Each story is not narrated continuously, and when transitioning to another part of the story, a title-screen appears to signal the transition. The first arc is “Cherry Blossoms” and the second and third are named “Cosmonaut” and “5 Centimeters Per Second” in that order. Even though this is a singular movie, the story is split into three story arcs. The plot that I have described to you is merely one-third of the story. Then, Takaki finds out that his parents are moving towards the South of Japan to Kagoshima prefecture and he decides to pay her one final visit before it becomes too difficult for them to meet again. Eventually, the letters become less and less frequent as they start growing apart. After she moves to Tochigi, Akari and Takaki continue their friendship by writing letters to each other.
After they graduate from elementary school, Akari has to move towards the North of Japan in Tochigi prefecture of Japan because of her parents’ jobs. When Akari transfers to her elementary school, Takaki quickly befriends her and quickly become become close friends. It is a love story between two characters – Tono Takaki and Shinohara Akari.
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Li Zhang Yip, Writer | JanuMakoto Shinkai, CoMix Wave, 5 Centimetres Per Second (2007) ”Copyrighted Image”ĥ Centimeters Per Second is a one-hour movie directed by well-known director Makoto Shinkai.
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