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The Place Promised in Our Early Days

2004 · 90 min

A wistful, slow-burning anime that blends adolescent longing with alternate-history intrigue, rewarding patience with haunting imagery and emotional resonance.

Directed by
Makoto Shinkai
Genres
Animation, Adventure, Drama
Tagline
Against all odds, a promise will be kept.
Overview
In a post-war alternative timeline, Japan is divided into the North, controlled by the Union, and the South, controlled by the United States. A mysterious high tower rises within the borders of the Union. Three high school students promise to cross the border with a self-built airplane and unravel the secret of the tower.

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Directed by
Makoto Shinkai
Genres
Animation, Adventure, Drama
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • isolation
  • grief
  • memory
  • war
Places
  • small town
  • countryside
Era
near-future
Audience
teen
Form
  • nonlinear
  • animated
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror1
Humour1
Realism4
Romance6
Tension4
Darkness5
Complexity7
Emotional weight8

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Genres
animation, adventure, drama, romance, war, science fiction
Directed by
Makoto Shinkai
Written by
Makoto Shinkai
Starring
Hidetaka Yoshioka, Masato Hagiwara, Yuuka Nanri, Unsho Ishizuka, Kazuhiko Inoue, Risa Mizuno, Hidenobu Kiuchi, Masami Iwasaki
Music
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Cinematography
Makoto Shinkai
Runtime
90 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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