Byousoku 5 Centimeter

What happens when two people love each other but just aren't meant to be together? Takaki Toono and Akari Shinohara are childhood friends, but circumstances beyond their control tear them apart. They promise to stay in contact, and although the progression of time widens the distance between them, the chain of memories remains ever-present.

Byousoku 5 Centimeter is a romantic drama that focuses on the mundane and harsh reality of long-distance relationships. Stuck in the past and unable to make any new memories, Takaki and Akari cling to the hope of seeing each other again. They live their everyday lives half-heartedly, both hurting themselves and the people around them.

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Toono, Takaki Main

Mizuhashi, Kenji Japanese

Sumida, Kanae Main

Hanamura, Satomi Japanese

Shinohara, Akari Main

Onoue, Ayaka Japanese

Sumida, Sister Supporting

Mizuno, Risa Japanese

Mizuno, Risa Supporting

Mizuno, Risa Japanese

Train Station Announcer 7 Supporting

Male Student 10 Supporting

Train Station Announcer 3 Supporting

Male 1 Supporting

Train Station Announcer 1 Supporting

Itou, Kouichirou Producer

Chung, Jin Ho Producer

Shinkai, Makoto Director, Sound Director, Episode Director, Script, Storyboard, Original Creator, Editing, Original Character Design, Art Director, Director of Photography, Color Design

Foster, Steven Script, ADR Director

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Apr 12, 2024

lohdtord

Recommended

I highly recommend to just watch it sooner.
This movie contains quite a philosophical exploration of relationships and their retrospective view, presenting both the sweet and the bitter aspects that not many movies have.
Every words used in the movie carry significant meaning.
It offers another perspective on life, living, love, and regret, portrayed through Takaki as if he were reflecting myself from a couple of years ago.
The story has stuck in my head for quite a while and i've rewatched it quite a few time, but yeah, it is what it is. A masterpiece.
In essence, "5 Centimeters Per Second" serves as a poignant reminder ... of life's fleeting nature and the profound beauty found within its ephemeral moments. It challenges individuals to embrace the inherent impermanence of existence and find solace in the enduring truths that transcend the boundaries of time and space.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Mar 28, 2025

Izmo1_2_3_

Mixed Feelings

I saw it and I have to say the characters had a billion internal monologues about something I can't even tell what it was. I get that the girl and the guy were getting to know each other in the beginning, they were still together, and that the separation was hard, but that's about all I took away from it. The middle was kind of interesting, but I didn't understand how the other girl related to the main plot - just that she was in love with a guy who already had someone. I would have preferred the movie to be a movie where the ... characters talk to each other instead of internal monologues. When a character was speaking her inner philosophical monologue over and over, I could barely keep track of what was going on. If they had included the classic character chatter, I probably would have built up more of a relationship with them. The ending basically didn't even say if they ended up together - just that their parting caused a sadness and emptiness that can't be undone, which is something I figured. The animation, visuals and music were the only things that pulled it the most. I was expecting some sort of emotional journey, but instead I got a poetic film that could be described as being about characters who have experienced loss, with a lot of internal monologues that rather overwhelmed the film. I don't mind internal monologues in anime, on the contrary I think they belong in anime, but here it really didn't work for me. Perhaps if I had watched with the English dub, I would have enjoyed the visuals more but the film would still have struck me as an essay on grief and loss.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Mar 11, 2025

1stDecame4Danime

Not Recommended

The concept of longing/distance in relationships.
It's another mermaid non-romance non-story. It's the start of a premise that it absolutely refuses to actually explore. Practically nothing happens.
The characters are never explored, even the central romance of the story is just two kids already in love who meet up to hang out and say almost nothing 1 time before drifting apart as nothing further happens. Instead it starts up another pointless start of a premise non-romance of another non-character girl (this is the only one with actual meaningful lines of dialogue and some characteristics though) who has a crush on the boy and nothing comes of it ... because he's not interested in her and she's too shy to actually do anything other than stalk him. And the third part is just a generic end result, the premise of struggling with romance and just living ordinary life as nothing actually happens, the end.
It is astounding that they managed to sell this non-story to any group that looked at this amateurish pitch of almost nothing.
This is a shallow spectacle movie of high-budget art but the subject matter is so boring that it does nothing for me.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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