{"id":13424,"date":"2020-02-14T20:00:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T01:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13424"},"modified":"2020-02-12T19:32:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T00:32:45","slug":"weathering-with-you-2019-makoto-shinkai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13424","title":{"rendered":"Weathering With You (2019, Makoto Shinkai)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another supernatural teenage love story from the <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11986\">Your Name<\/a><\/em> creator, this time involving weather-control instead of time\/body-swapping.  Shinkai is terrific with light and cloud and sky, so this was lovely on the big screen &#8211; we watched one of the few subtitled screenings before the GKids dub opened wide.<\/p>\n<p>In a future Tokyo where it rains constantly, Hina is the sunshine girl who can clear the clouds with a prayer, but every time she uses her powers she gets closer to losing herself forever to the skies, a human sacrifice who will fix the weather imbalance, the countdown marked on her body like <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11315\">The Girl Who Leapt Through Time<\/a><\/em>.  The boy who likes her, Hodaka, works with a couple of gruff-but-generous reporters (<em>Crows Zero<\/em> star Shun Oguri, and <em>The Mole Song 2<\/em>&#8216;s Tsubasa Honda), and would rescue her from the clouds even if it meant dooming the city to an existence of <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/13411\">small cubes<\/a>.  Too much side-plot involving cops and guns and gangsters, but I forget all that stuff when staring at the pretty clouds on the poster hanging next to my laptop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another supernatural teenage love story from the Your Name creator, this time involving weather-control instead of time\/body-swapping. Shinkai is terrific with light and cloud and sky, so this was lovely on the big screen &#8211; we watched one of the few subtitled screenings before the GKids dub opened wide. In a future Tokyo where it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,96,1064,36,2268,2613],"class_list":["post-13424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-animation","tag-global-crisis","tag-japan","tag-makoto-shinkai","tag-weather-control"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13436,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13424\/revisions\/13436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}