GKIDS announced this Thursday (23) that it has licensed the new Weathering With You (Tenki no Ko) anime The film will have an “awards qualifying” theatrical run this year, with a wider theatrical release slated for early 2020 with English subtitles and showings.
The film will open in Japan on July 19. Shinkai confirmed that the film will have a worldwide release, and releases have already been decided for North America, Europe, Asia and South America.
In April of this year, the first trailer for Weathering With You, a new film by Makoto Shinkai (Your Name), was released. The video features the couple Hodaka and Hina.
GKIDS describes the film:
In the summer of his freshman year of high school, Hokoda runs away from his remote island home of Tokyo and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is exceptionally gloomy and rainy every day, as if to hint at its future. He lives out his days in isolation, but eventually finds work as a writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then one day, Hokoda meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky...
Shinkai is credited with the original work, and is also directing and writing the film's scripts for CoMix Wave Films. Masayoshi Tanaka (your name, anohana, The Anthem of the Heart) is designing the characters, Atsushi Tamura (The Cat Returns, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin) is the animation director, and Hiroshi Takiguchi (The Garden of Words, Ajin) is the art director. STORY inc. is credited as producer, and TOHO will distribute the film. RADWIMPS are performing the film's theme song and providing the music for the film. Shinkai is also preparing a new adaptation of the film, which will be available in print and digital formats on July 18th.
The film will star Kotaro Daigo as Hokoda Morishima and Nana Mori as Hina Amano.
Shinkai's Your Name debuted in Japan in August 2016, and became the fourth highest-grossing film of all time in Japan, the second highest-grossing Japanese film, and the second highest-grossing anime film, with earnings of over of 25 billion yen (about US$225 million). It is the highest-grossing anime film in the world, having earned more than US$355 million.
Source: ANN
