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Your Name and Weathering with You director Makoto Shinkai openly references Kiki’s Delivery Service and Whisper of the Heart in his new anime movie Suzume. But the film’s best Easter egg is in its ending, which connects to Hayao Miyazaki and Howl’s Moving Castle.
Writer-director Makoto Shinkai talks about his latest film Suzume
Makoto Shinkai returns to his pet themes, explored over the course of a filmography, with poignant magical realism. Our Suzume review:
"Suzume" director Makoto Shinkai was inspired by the 2011 earthquake in Japan to make a coming-of-age drama with surprising comic relief.
Makoto Shinkai, director of Your Name and Weathering With You, set out to make Suzume his least romantic movie — but that actually made it his most romantic. In theaters April 14.