Koto no ha no niwa (2013)'s comments

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Paravail

I guess Quentin Tarantino isn't the only director with a foot fetish.

5 years 10 months ago

Torgo

Currently, nothing comes even close to Makoto Shinkai's visuals. Highly recommended.

10 years 5 months ago

Dewsions

Extremely stunning visuals accompanied with great soundtrack and story, a must watch!

10 years 2 months ago

palefire

Spectacular animation

10 years 5 months ago

Fenring

Very beautiful.
Director said, that viewers, frustrated about ending of 5 centimeters per second, asked him to make optimistic movie. This one.

10 years 7 months ago

The Garden of Words (by Your Name's Makoto Shinkai) isn't a feature, not at 46 minutes, so it doesn't feel as rich and full as the director's greatest hits. One perhaps wonders if there was room to develop the plot further - many call it a mood piece, I would rather say psychological study - but the film doesn't entirely explain every motivation fully, so I think that yes. It's about a teenager who plays hooky on rainy days to meet with a young woman who's also skipping her day job, in a beautiful park in the middle of the city. A friendship between strangers, the difficult emotions relating to a boyhood crush, and the acknowledgement that the adult in those cases does receive something. We fear for the women's state of mind - something isn't right, depression perhaps - but some of the reasons we're later given are either extremely curt or rather odd (about her choice of foods, for example), so there's definitely more that could have been done there. So it rather leaves me hungry for more, but an uptick for the animation and backgrounds which are absolutely gorgeous.

2 months 3 weeks ago

devanshu257

8/10
A simple tale crafted masterfully by amazing storytelling , animation, subtlety and realism made this really mature movie and symbolism with japanese old culture is witnessed here.

6 years 7 months ago

TheBanana

aka Garden of Words.

10 years 8 months ago