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The story takes place in a alternate postwar period, in 1996, where Japan is divided. Hokkaido is ruled by the "Union" while Honshu and other southern islands are under US authority. A tall tower was built on Hokkaido, which could even be seen from Tokyo. In the summer of 1996, three middle-school students make a promise that they'll cross the border with a self-constructed plane and unravel the tower's secret, but their project was abandoned after the girl, Sayuri Sawatari, became mysteriously ill and transferred to Tokyo. Years later on the brink of another war Hiroki Fujisawa finds out that Sayuri had been in coma since then, and he asks Takuya Shirakawa to help him finding a way to wake her up.
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I just found this on Veoh and it is not my upload. I don't know if this has been posted here, if it has, then my apologies. I just thought I'd post it here for anyone interested in Makoto Shinkai and because I've been getting some fantastic movies from this site and thought it would be cool to give back. Definitely one of the up and coming Japanese animation directors. Even his shorts are beautiful.
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The story takes place in a alternate postwar period, in 1996, where Japan is divided. Hokkaido is ruled by the "Union" while Honshu and other southern islands are under US authority. A tall tower was built on Hokkaido, which could even be seen from Tokyo. In the summer of 1996, three middle-school students make a promise that they'll cross the border with a self-constructed plane and unravel the tower's secret, but their project was abandoned after the girl, Sayuri Sawatari, became mysteriously ill and transferred to Tokyo. Years later on the brink of another war Hiroki Fujisawa finds out that Sayuri had been in coma since then, and he asks Takuya Shirakawa to help him finding a way to wake her up.
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Movie
I just found this on Veoh and it is not my upload. I don't know if this has been posted here, if it has, then my apologies. I just thought I'd post it here for anyone interested in Makoto Shinkai and because I've been getting some fantastic movies from this site and thought it would be cool to give back. Definitely one of the up and coming Japanese animation directors. Even his shorts are beautiful.
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