Five Cen­ti­metres Per Second
On first watch­ing Five Cen­ti­metres Per Second, the over­bear­ing sad­ness of Takaki’s jour­ney from love­struck adoles­cent to down­trod­den adult is depress­ing; the piano music that fol­lows him through the three stor­ies of the film is a heart­beat of yearn­ing for times gone by. Sub­sequent view­ings but build upon this and more than […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• 5 centimetres per second,
• 5cm/s,
• akari,
• Anime,
• anime of the decade,
• byousoku 5 centimeter,
• children,
• kanae,
• makoto shinkai,
• movie,
• nostalgia,
• piano,
• school,
• snow,
• takaki,
• wistful

Words seem almost inad­equate when try­ing to con­vey the wist­ful nos­tal­gia evoked by 5 cen­ti­meters per second. Every scene in the petite one hour movie is visu­ally arrest­ing, the sparse dia­logue sec­ond­ary to the unspoken emo­tion loaded into each moment; it is beau­ti­ful, mov­ing and amaz­ingly per­sonal film. Sep­ar­ated into three chronologically […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• 5cm/s,
• akari,
• Anime,
• byousoku 5 centimeter,
• cosmonaut,
• five centimeters per second,
• hoshi no koe,
• makoto shinkai,
• nostalgia,
• oukashou,
• review,
• romance,
• snow,
• takaki,
• the place promised in our early days,
• voices of a distant star,
• wistful