If you liked
Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi
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...then you might like
Byousoku 5 Centimeter
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well, to be honest when i first heard of this young director, Makoto Shinkai, and how he has been praised as the next generation to suceed miyazaki i was of course skeptical. then i brought myself to buy a couple of his films. the first i watched was 'voices of a distant sta'r..it was short but so very intresting, i had never seen animation and story lines like it anywhere...i did some research on it and Shinkai made his first couple films with nothing more than his apple computer and some software...to be honest the guy is a genius for what he had accomplished. of his works thus far i would say his best is by far 'a place promised in our early days' but as far as re-galing him as the next miyazaki look no further than '5 cm per second' to leave you aw-struck and breathless. i will not get into the spoilers (you will just have to watch it yourself) but kinda like the 'animatrix' it is a coalition of different story lines that wrap up into one of the greatest movies of the new century. i recomend it with all of my being and hope you will share in its beauty.