Japan's WEATHERING WITH YOU Is Country's First Anime Film in Over 20 Years to be Up for International Film Oscar in 2020
The anime film Weathering With You from director Makoto Shinkai is set to hit the Oscar’s Best International Film Category for the awards show in 2020. This marks Japan’s first anime film to be submitted in the category since Hayao Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke in 1998. Shinkai had received critical acclaim for his previous film, Your Name, but this nomination will keep his name in the spotlight. Here’s a synopsis for Weathering With You:
Weathering With You follows a high school student named Hodaka “who leaves his island home and moves to Tokyo. He's immediately broke from the move and lives his life in isolation, but soon finds a job writing for a strange occult magazine. The weather's been terrible, with rain every day since he had got this new job, until he meets a young woman named Hina. Hodaka finds that although Hina lives with her brother through outside circumstances, the two are happy. Also strangely enough, Hina has the power to control the weather.”
I’ll include the trailer for this beautiful-looking film below in case you haven’t caught it yet. Weathering With You opened in Japan on July 19th, 2019, and is now said to be released early next year. Hopefully it’s very early or they decide to move it up, as the 92nd Academy Awards will be held on February 9, 2020. See the trailer below, and let us know if you’re excited to see this new Oscar contender.