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  Review by booklyreads ★★★★★ 50

  Seeing the top reviews and feeling like maybe this movie doesn't translate outside of Japanese culture or something. This was not a romance. This was a movie about the 3/11 disaster, and the fact that ten years have passed, but there are still children who were orphaned that day who aren't adults yet now. This is about trauma, family, memory, disaster, and the depopulation of the Japanese countryside. I cried for the last half of the film (yes, a solid hour of crying) and then just continued sobbing when I got home. It was one of those rare cathartic cleansings of the soul.

  As a teacher who feels a disconnect and fear over the fact that, every year, my students remember less and less of 3/11, this movie feels like a way to gap that generation divide and foster understanding.

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  Review by R. C. Landon ★★★ 191

  straights will write a love story about a chair before writing one about gay people

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  Review by James (Schaffrillas) ★★★½

  Suzume runtime: 123 minutes

  Suzume runtime if the cat wasn't a little shit: 10 minutes

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  Review by lackofluster ★★★★ 5

  would you still love me if i were a chair? 🥺

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  Review by pil ★★★★ 12

  i think Serizawa is more than just Souta's friend

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★★ 9

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  One could quibble with the unwieldly narrative at play, or the typical grab-bag of Makoto Shinkai tropes and patterns in his latest film, but as a whole, I found Suzume to be enormously affecting. This is a grand spectacular of mementos and memories, sacrifices and lost loves. Deeply emotional and harrowing stuff. A work of art that embraces the fragility of Japan's relationship with both nature and natural disaster. So much of this film is caught up in the idea of ceaseless tragedy - fragments of pain echoing in montages of ordinary existence upended. By the final twenty minutes, I was actively holding back sobs. This one hit me where it hurts - a film that explores time in its enormity and the elements that make up a life well-lived.

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  Review by coffee ★★★½ 1

  you’d think that after like two hours of it being the main bit of the movie that the three legged chair sprinting and doing parkour would stop being funny but i’m here to tell you it absolutely does not

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  Review by shookone ★★½ 2

  you'd think Japan has a problem with earthquakes, tsunamies and volcanoes but it's more like with memory, trauma and gigantic red penises in the sky.

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  Review by cozy ★★★★ 3

  "that time i got reincarnated as a chair and my crush sat on me"

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  Review by babylonian ★★★★★

  saw this in japan at TOHO Cinemas Shinjuku. there were no subtitles and i don’t speak japanese. i cried twice. five stars

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  Review by yair 4

  the “i can fix him” crowd are gonna love this

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  Review by David Sims ★★★ 1

  I only have eyes for chair