The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004) Kumo no mukô, yakusoku no basho (original title)

Director:

Makoto Shinkai

Writers:

Makoto Shinkai (story)
Makoto Shinkai (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:

20 November 2004 (Japan)

Genre:

Animation | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Against all odds, a promise will be kept.

Plot:

In an alternate postwar timeline, Japan is divided into the Union-controlled North and the US-controlled South.

Plot Keywords:

Violin | Year 1999 | Year 1996 | Anime | 1990s

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Hidetaka Yoshioka	...	Hiroki Fujisawa (voice)
Masato Hagiwara	...	Takuya Shirakawa (voice)
Yuka Nanri	...	Sayuri Sawatari (voice) (as Yuuka Nanri)
Unshô Ishizuka	...	Okabe (voice)
Kazuhiko Inoue	...	Tomizawa (voice)
Risa Mizuno	...	Maki Kasahara (voice)
Hidenobu Kiuchi	...	Arisaka (voice)
Masami Iwasaki	...	Emishi Seisakujo Koin / Eki Shanai Announce / Byoin Incho (voice)
Eiji Takemoto	...	Emishi Seisakujo Koin / TV News (voice)
Takahiro Hirano	...	Emishi Seisakujo Koin / Daigakuinsei (voice)
Takeshi Maeda	...	Daigakuinsei / Radio Hoso (voice)
Rie Nakagawa	...	Joshi Seito / Josei Kangoshi (voice)
Yûki Nakao	...	Joshi Seito (voice)
Maki Saitou	...	Joshi Seito / Josei Kangoshi (voice)
Kousuke Kujirai	...	Danshi Seito (voice)
Bretto Coleman	...	Beigunjin (voice)
Ian O'Neal	...	NSA (voice)
Hirochika Kamize	...	Jushisen Keikoku (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jessica Boone	...	Sayuri Sawatari (voice: English version)
Matthew Crawford	...	Male Student (voice: English version)
James Z. Erivayer	...	Graduate Student (voice: English version)
Jacob A. Gragard	...	Emishi Plant Worker (voice: English version)
John Gremillion	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Illich Guardiola	...	Arisaka (voice: English version)
Hilary Haag	...	Female Student (voice: English version)
Jay Hickman	...	Graduate Student (voice: English version)
Adam Jones	...	Emishi Plant Worker (voice: English version)
Jacob Jones	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Andrew Love	...	Emishi Plant Worker (voice: English version)
Kalob Martinez	...	Takuya Sawatari (voice: English version)
Andy McAvin	...	Tomizawa (voice: English version)
Rob Mungle	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Chris Nelson	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Mariela Ortiz	...	Female Student (voice: English version)
Chris Patton	...	Hiroki Fujisawa (voice: English version)
Lesley Pedersen	...	Female Student (voice: English version) (as Lesley Tesh)
Carl Ruthers	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
John Swasey	...	Okabe (voice: English version)
Kira Vincent-Davis	...	Maki Kasahara (voice: English version)

Directed by
Makoto Shinkai

Writing credits
Makoto Shinkai		(story)
Makoto Shinkai		(screenplay)
Steven Foster		(adaptation)

Produced by
John Ledford	....	executive producer
Makoto Shinkai	....	producer
Naomi Toda	....	promotional producer
Mark Williams	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Tenmon

Cinematography by
Makoto Shinkai		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Makoto Shinkai

Casting by
Makoto Matsuda

Art Department
Yasushi Ebihara	....	background art
Keiko Gouda	....	painter: Studio M
Akira Hirosawa	....	background art
Akiko Majima	....	background art
Ayumi Maruyama	....	painter: Studio M
Kiyoshi Ochiai	....	background art
Madoka Ohki	....	painter: Studio M
Makoto Shinkai	....	art
Makoto Shinkai	....	background art
Makoto Shinkai	....	color designer
Makoto Shinkai	....	storyboard artist
Yuko Tanaka	....	art cooperation
Arata Toma	....	background art

Sound Department
Bungo Fujiwara	....	recording director
Shôji Kato	....	sound effects
Rie Komiya	....	sound effects assistant
Kazuhiko Miyamoto	....	mixing engineer
Kazuhiko Miyamoto	....	sound recording engineer
Keiichirô Morimoto	....	mixing assistant
Makoto Shinkai	....	sound director
Makoto Sumiya	....	mixing engineer
Hitoshi Yamada	....	sound recording engineer

Special Effects by
Makoto Shinkai	....	model designer: Bela Cielo
Makoto Shinkai	....	modeler

Animation Department
Akinori Anzai	....	in-between animator: XEBEC
Yuji Emoto	....	in-between animator: TANTO
Tetsuo Hirakawa	....	animation cooperation
Daisuke Hiramaki	....	in-between animator: XEBEC
Akira Hirosawa	....	cel brushing
Akira Hosogaya	....	animation cooperation
Daisuke Ito	....	in-between animator: TANTO
Satomi Kashihara	....	in-between animator: XEBEC
Katsuhiko Kitada	....	in-between animator: XEBEC
Mayumi Kitamura	....	animation cooperation
Chizuru Kobayashi	....	in-between animator: XEBEC
Chika Kojima	....	animation cooperation
Tetsuya Koshizaki	....	animation cooperation
Kiyotaka Oshiyama	....	in-between animator: XEBEC
Tomoyo Sawada	....	in-between animator: XEBEC
Ryôsuke Sekiguchi	....	animation cooperation (as Ryousuke Sekiguchi)
Hiromi Suzuki	....	assistant animation director
Aya Takano	....	in-between animator: asread
Takumi Tanji	....	background artist
Takumi Tanji	....	cel brushing
Ushio Tazawa	....	character designer
Ushio Tazawa	....	chief animation director
Mihoko Tomita	....	in-between animator: Kagura
Rie Usui	....	animation cooperation

Editorial Department
Daisuke Atsumi	....	HD film converter
Yuuko Hasegawa	....	assistant IQ editor
Yuko Shimura	....	film lab coordinator
Yoshinari Yamzaki	....	IQ editor (as Yoshinari Yamazaki)

Music Department
Bungo Fujiwara	....	music producer
Hiroyuki Koike	....	musician: first violin
Rei Koike	....	musician: second violin
Noriko Mihara	....	music engineer
Toshio Okazawa	....	musician: guitar
Kazuhisa Saito	....	musician: viola
Nobukazu Sakai	....	music production coordinator
Youji Sugiyama	....	contractor: strings
Seiichi Takahashi	....	musician: piano

Other crew
Hiroaki Hirabayashi	....	subtitle timing
Yukihiro Ishikawa	....	DVD extras editor
Yumiko Kikuchi	....	production accountant
Mikio Mori	....	cooperation: dolby film
Chiharu Ochiai	....	DVD booklet designer
Chiharu Ochiai	....	DVD extras producer
Chiharu Ochiai	....	promotional design
Shinichiro Yoshida	....	researcher

Thanks
Yasuki Hamano	....	thanks
Norio Ikawa	....	thanks
Yutaka Kamata	....	thanks
Hikaru Kondo	....	special thanks
Kenichiro Kuroiwa	....	thanks
Yoshikazu Miyagawa	....	thanks
Takahiro Otsuki	....	thanks
Masaya Sakamoto	....	thanks
Haruhisa Shinkai	....	thanks
Masayasu Takigawa	....	thanks
Daisuke Umezu	....	thanks

Production Companies

• ADV Films
• CoMix Wave

Distributors

• CoMix Wave (2004) (Japan) (theatrical)
• ADV Films (2005) (USA) (DVD)
• CoMix Wave (2005) (Japan) (DVD)
• Rapid Eye Movies (2009) (Germany) (DVD)

Other Companies

• CoMix Wave  soundtrack
• Sound Inn  music recorded at
• Twofive  music production

Also Known As:

"Kumo no mukô, yakusoku no basho" - Japan (original title)

Runtime:

Japan:91 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:PG | UK:12 | Singapore:PG

Company:

ADV Films

Quotes:

Sayuri Sawatari:This might sound weird, but... do you promise not to laugh?
Takuya Shirakawa:What is it? I won't laugh.
Sayuri Sawatari:Then I'll tell you. It's... about this dream I've been having lately.
Takuya Shirakawa:[after some time in the train] Big towers? Like the Union's?
Sayuri Sawatari:No... they're distorted, and have this weird shape. There are lots of other towers around the one I'm on. I don't know how, but I know that each of those towers is another world, different dreams that this world has. I can't move from that place, and I'm all alone and so lonely. And when I think that my heart is going to disappear... I see a white plane in the sky
[...]

Soundtrack:

Kimi no Koe

Majestic story- rocky at the beginning, but the end makes you forgive the tiny flaws.

In the beginning I was really put off and annoyed because I suck at dealing with technology, and the whole middle of the movie is just about the technology of building the airplane, I was annoyed. then i read people's comments on the movie and how amazing it was, and i forced myself to watch the rest of it, and it was flawless in the end, so it made up for it, i give it a 10/10! i was so beautiful and their love was so pure. not like these other movies where they claim to be in love, but there is no proof. They truly were. It was kind of confusing at some points, like about the connection to the tower, but it turned out to be worth it. =]

watch it! it's a must see anime!