Weathering with You

Weathering with You
Theatrical release poster
Japanese name
Kanji天気の子
Literal meaningChild of Weather
Transcriptions
Revised HepburnTenki no Ko
Directed byMakoto Shinkai
Written byMakoto Shinkai
Produced by
  • Wakana Okamura
  • Kinue Itō
Starring
CinematographyRyōsuke Tsuda
Edited byMakoto Shinkai
Music byRadwimps
Production
companies
Distributed byToho
Release date
  • July 19, 2019 (2019-07-19) (Japan)
Running time
112 minutes[1]
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Box officeUS$193.8 million[2]

Weathering with You (Japanese: 天気の子, Hepburn: Tenki no Ko, lit.'Child of Weather') is a 2019 Japanese animated romantic fantasy film written and directed by Makoto Shinkai, produced by CoMix Wave Films and distributed by Toho. It follows a 16-year-old high school boy, Hodaka Morishima, who runs away from his troubled rural home to Tokyo, and later befriends Hina Amano, an orphaned girl who has the ability to control the weather.

It features the voices of Kotaro Daigo and Nana Mori, with animation direction by Atsushi Tamura, character design by Masayoshi Tanaka, and its orchestral score and soundtrack composed by Radwimps; the latter two previously collaborated with Shinkai on Your Name (2016). A light novel of the same name, also written by Shinkai, was published a day prior to the film's premiere, while a manga adaptation was serialized in Afternoon on July 25, 2019.

Weathering with You was theatrically released in conventional, IMAX, and 4DX theaters in Japan on July 19, 2019, and was released in the United States on January 17, 2020. It received positive reviews from critics, with praise for the animation, screenplay, music, visuals, and emotional weight. The film grossed US$193.8 million worldwide, becoming the highest grossing Japanese film of 2019 and the seventh highest-grossing anime film of all time, unadjusted for inflation.

The film won a number of awards, including being selected as the Japanese entry for Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, but was not nominated. It received four Annie Award nominations, including for Best Independent Animated Feature, tying Spirited Away, Millennium Actress, (both 2001) and Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2005) for the second-joint most nominations for an anime film at the Annies, behind Ghost in the Shell (1995) and then Belle (2021) with five.

  1. ^ "Weathering With You". British Board of Film Classification. Archived from the original on January 15, 2020. Retrieved January 15, 2020.
  2. ^ "Weathering with You (2019)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved September 6, 2022.