Kotonoha no niwa

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1. #001

   According to Makoto Shinkai, the film's main theme is loneliness. It was inspired by the Man'yoshu, Japan's oldest poetry collection, in which love was represented by the word "koi" or "lonely sadness" — more precisely, a longing for someone who is in loneliness. Shinkai described the film as a love story aimed at people who feel lonely or incomplete in their social relationships but have no need to fix that loneliness.

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2. #002

   The film was created using a combination of hand-drawn animation, rotoscoping and computer animation (CGI); the latter facilitated the realistic look of the film's rain scenes.

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3. #003

   Makoto Shinkai, who had lived in Shinjuku for ten years, wanted to capture the beauty of modern Tokyo's scenery and display it in a film. He began taking thousands of photographs and then created storyboards for the film based on them.

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4. #004

   According to Makoto Shinkai, the rain in this film represents the power of love: it can neither be controlled nor stopped.

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5. #005

   The character Yukino has a brief cameo appearance in Your Name (2016), also directed by Makoto Shinkai.

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6. #006

   Makoto Shinkai initially envisioned Takao as a boy who wants to help people, but he also felt the character should have a passion for making things, since creative work can be rewarding and satisfying. When he realized that shoemakers help people walk, he chose shoemaking for him.

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7. #007

   For the rainy scenes in the park, the tone of the color palette was reduced and pale green shading was used to reinforce the gloomy rainy weather, thereby increasing detail and defining the characters.

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8. #008

   The Garden of Words ranked first in Cinefix's video of the 10 Most Beautiful Animated Films of All Time. Commenting on their selection, they said: ''This stunning anime is the perfect expression of animation as art''.

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9. #009

   This is the first Makoto Shinkai film whose music was not composed by Tenmon.

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