5 Centimeters per Second (2007)
5 Centimeters Per Second for the speed at which cherry blossom petals fall, petals being a metaphorical representation of humans, reminiscent of the slowness of life and how people often start together but slowly drift into their separate ways...
Cast and Information
Directed By: Makoto Shinkai
Written By: Makoto Shinkai
Starring: Kenji Mizuhashi, Satomi Hanamura, Ayaka Onoue, Yoshimi Kondou
Genres: Romance, Drama, Animation
AKA: Byôsoku 5 senchimêtoru
Country: Japan
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Etheriel | 84 84th |
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Every shot is beautifully composed and animated; I can't imagine the amount of dedication that went into this film. The story starts out cute but becomes something painfully human. Unfortunately, the plot and characters are ultimately forgettable, really only serving as a vessel for the more memorable visual component.
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AlienIndie | 54 32nd |
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On the first half it goes too slowly. On the second half it goes too fast. As a result, I never really felt like I knew these people or cared about them.
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Jimmy Suede | 65 35th |
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A visual treat, and passes the time pleasantly and melancholily, as I like. But it didn't draw me in like some of Shinkai's other films. The characters and story just aren't that interesting here and there wasn't much payoff. Also, maybe I'm getting to the end of my ability to take seriously romances between children.
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PeaceAnarchy | 87 87th |
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Really pretty and it captures a mood of light angst and love perfectly. Unfortunately the same moody emotions that make it so successful are also what make it a bit repetitive and tiring to watch even though it's barely an hour long.
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Spunkie | 60 65th |
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It could have done better without the ending. Upto that point the nature of the story was naive, with last 5 minutes the film became naive.
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| 1 | mclinusa | 76 28th |
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I like a good animation as the next person, but this movie never gave me the payoff. It starts with a soft promise, but drifts off at the end of each story. Leaving me wondering: that's it? I think of this movie as a mood piece, instead of an actual story line.
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paulofilmo | 76 96th |
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Woah. Watershed moment in anime ...in film. I haven't felt this evocation of time before--in any medium--not even haiku. The first chapter especially. Proust, in fact. More Proust than Haiku.
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Shadrik | 78 77th |
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Characters and plot may be forgettable but the emotions created through the beautiful animated images will stay with you.
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pliumbum | 100 96th |
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I never cry at films. This time I just couldn't hold my tears. This is such a sad and truthful combination of fragments from life. Kinda like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - searchers for love meeting, trying to forget everything, and meeting again, just to be hurt again. The visuals are so stunning that it feels like a modern day computer game with all the unreal lighting.
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elburbo | 93 37th |
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If you were to put melancholy and pretty pictures in a blender, this is what you'd get.
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Okkervil | 48 35th |
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All the marks are really for the animation (which is totally amazing) & the one or two effective scenes where the characters aren't opening their irritating mouths in order to philosophically whisper at you about what a total losers they are! The annoying voices in the English dub are terrible. Somehow they emphasise what a bunch of sociopathic introverted idiots all the characters are? I wanted grab Takaki by the neck & tell the little idiot to man-up & grow a pair of fucking balls.
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| 1 | Deathcrow | 80 83rd |
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Stunning visuals! Plot is very thin and more 'picture book'-style, but still kind of engaging. Thumps up for this one.
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kevinjoseph | 66 59th |
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I'm all about melodramatic romantic films, but this was just sentimental ad nauseum. It didn't earn any of the emotional weight it ascribed itself so it wound up feeling sappy. Nice visuals, though. I'll give it that.
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stevekimes | 83 63rd |
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Good, but aimless. Beautiful animation.
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hotsake | 58 46th |
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What starts of as a beautiful blossoming romance in the first story gradually becomes frustratingly pointless as only one character is followed through the stories and this character seems to come away at the end of the story a sad empty man. The last story sucked and didn't really tie things together too well the only plus of this story was the great song sang during the end of it.
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VengefulKBM | 50 25th |
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Really generic warm-and-fuzziness. Nothing wrong with that... but it's also, as I said, really generic.
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schwabe | 60 11th |
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started so beautifully and ended so disappointing. after the first story he should have quit writing and it would have been a great little short film, instead he went on and ruined it..... sad!
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| 1 | ByeByeBye | 46 21st |
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Illustrations are amazing but everything else is just meh. it talks about feels and state of mind but characters are so dull you cant feel a thing. its like clannad - the only purpose is to make you cry. and im not really type for this kind of s#it. grading is this high only for it's outstanding graffics. dont loose an hour of your life on this - so not wort it.
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| 1 | SinnerMa | 95 95th |
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A growing up story told in three arcs separated by the passing of a couple of years. Lost count of the number of times I've watched the first arc, it is absolute perfection IMHO.....and toward the end of the movie.....that second t____.....Oh lord!!
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NathanBates | 60 34th |
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A bit melodramatic, this beautiful anime focuses on unrequited love. But the first segment runs a little slow, and the third went so fast -- somehow turning into a music video -- that I'm not entirely sure how it ended.
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ajmurad | 60 41st |
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I liked the first 2 short stories a lot but the 3rd didn't really have an impact on me and it ended pretty abruptly.
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| Average Percentile 61.11% from 1294 Ratings |  |