Shin has shut his heart ever since his mother died when he was young. His childhood friend Kotori has been looking after him ever since. Now that they are in the third year of high school, and it seems like they can finally move forward, another Shin from another Japan has suddenly appeared in front of them.
Visual Effects
Stunning parallel world collapse sequences that punch above the budget.
Score
Hiroyuki Sawano doing what he does best: making teenagers cry loudly.
Director
Yuhei Sakuragi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Yuhei Sakuragi cut his teeth on CGI backgrounds for *The Garden of Words* — you can see that hyper-detailed environmental obsession in the parallel world architecture.
The film's 'two Japans' concept subtly mirrors post-3/11 anxieties about national trauma and alternate histories — the 'warring Japan' isn't just sci-fi set dressing, it's processing real collective grief.
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