Online reviews were generally favorable with universal praise of the art, though opinions were mixed regarding the story's length, plot and emotional climax. It won the 2013 Kobe Theatrical Film Award and awards at the Fantasia International Film Festival and the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film. It ranked highly on iTunes Store during 2013 and was selected as the Year's Best Animation in iTunes' Best of 2013. The film performed well in theaters for an extended period of time and was hosted at many local and international film events. The film has been licensed by Sentai Filmworks in North America, Anime Limited in the UK, and Madman Entertainment in Australia. The Garden of Words had an unusual release schedule since it was released digitally on iTunes the same day as the Japanese theatrical premier, and its DVD and Blu-ray were released while the film was still in theaters, on June 21. Someone's Gaze), also directed by Shinkai. For the Japanese premiere, the film was screened with an animated short called Dareka no Manazashi ( だれかのまなざし, lit. The Garden of Words premiered at the Gold Coast Film Festival in Australia on Apand had its general release on in Japan. The age difference between the two main characters and their character traits demonstrate how awkwardly and disjointedly people mature, where even adults sometimes feel no more mature than teenagers, according to Shinkai. The story's motifs include rain, Man'yōshū poetry, and the Japanese garden. Shinkai wrote the story as a tale of "lonely sadness", based on the meaning of the traditional Japanese word for "love", and uses shoes as a metaphor for life. When Takao learns Yukari's identity, emotions come to a head as both learn that they have been teaching each other "how to walk". Yukari tells Takao nothing about herself, including her name, while Takao opens up to her, sharing his passion for shoes by offering to make a pair for her.
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While Takao is skipping his morning class to design shoes, Yukari is avoiding work due to personal problems in her professional life. The film focuses on Takao Akizuki, an aspiring 15-year-old shoemaker, and Yukari Yukino, a mysterious 27-year-old woman he keeps meeting at Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden on rainy mornings. The film was made into a manga, with illustrations by Midori Motohashi, and later novelized by Shinkai, both in the same year as the film. The theme song, "Rain", was originally written and performed by Senri Oe in 1988, but was remade for the film and was sung by Motohiro Hata. It stars Miyu Irino and Kana Hanazawa, and features music by Daisuke Kashiwa instead of Tenmon, who had composed the music for many of Shinkai's previous films. Highs will hover around the 80° mark with overnight lows sitting near 60°.The Garden of Words ( Japanese: 言の葉の庭, Hepburn: Kotonoha no Niwa) is a 2013 Japanese anime drama film written, directed and edited by Makoto Shinkai, animated by CoMix Wave Films and distributed by Toho. A few storms will ride another weak front Tuesday night into Wednesday, and then we return to clear and comfortable weather for the remainder of the upcoming work week. This overnight cooling will help reduce the humidity for all, leading to a very comfortable Monday. Highs will be noticeably cooler, dropping to the mid 70s on Sunday with overnight lows dipping into the mid 50s.
The front will help pull the cloud cover away, leaving us with mostly sunny skies to close the weekend.
Highs will reach the mid 80s Saturday before cooling to the mid 70s thanks to a dry front moving in late Saturday night, which is also going to be the time we’ll most likely see showers. The rain drops have been few and far between, but the steady flow of air off the Atlantic is keeping the chance (ever so slight) in the forecast for the start of the weekend. (WITN) - The cloud cover has been stubborn this week, but with the weekend right around the corner, sunshine should start to become a more common sight.
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