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Makoto Shinkai
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Your Name rewatched: why the body-swap romance works better as a disaster film
Makoto Shinkai's biggest hit is remembered as romance, but its structure is closer to disaster cinema with memory as the…
Kavya Nair7 min read
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Suzume explained: doors, disasters and the grief Makoto Shinkai keeps returning to
Suzume is a road movie, a romance and a post-3/11 grief story. Its doors matter because they turn memory into a place yo…
Kavya Nair7 min read