The anime Suzume combines visual power with emotion and creates a gripping story that is available for home cinema. The film builds on the success of its predecessor Your Name
Japanese director Makoto Shinkai has already succeeded in combining an emotional and unique story with visually stunning scenes in Your Name and Weathering With You. His film Suzume, released in 2022, also features a touching story with imaginative images. The anime hit has now finally been released for home cinema in the Collector’s Edition and other versions.
The Collectors Edition includes a 60-page artbook, four art cards as well as commentaries and interviews with the director. You can also look forward to a making-of, the final scene and a special commemorative video. Suzume is also available as a limited edition Steelbook with various three-disc sets, and as a normal Blu-ray and DVD version.
(Suzume Collector’s Edition)
This is what the fantasy film by Makoto Shinkai is about
17-year-old Suzume embarks on a dangerous adventure across Japan. Together with Souta, who has been enchanted into a chair, she has to close portals in the form of doors that are located on abandoned sites of previous natural disasters. Disaster seeps through them, threatening the earth. This unusual journey is also a coming-of-age story that accompanies Suzume into adulthood.
Suzume is one of the best films of 2023
As with the previous films, Suzume has also received high praise. On Rotten Tomatoes the anime received a critics’ score of 96 percent and over 1,000 viewers also voted with 98 percent approval. Your Moviepilot ratings even voted Suzume the 9th best film of 2023.
Perhaps the reason why the film is so inspiring lies less in the fantastic moments than in the “beauty of the ordinary”, as our Moviepilot editor-in-chief Jenny Jecke wrote during the Berlinale:
More impressive are the inconspicuous, warm images that accompany Suzume’s journey. Drunken elderly gentlemen grinning to each other over sake and music. Curious, beaming toddlers who discover that the chair in their midst can talk. A young, incredibly handsome man on a summer’s day
