Earlier today, GKIDS announced that Weathering With You will hit North American theaters on January 17, 2020. The publisher streamed an English-subtitled trailer for the film, which you can check out below.
Weathering With You opened in Japanese theaters on on July 19.
Makoto Shinkai directed the film and wrote the scripts at CoMix Wave Films, with Masayoshi Tanaka (anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day, your name.) providing character designs.
GKIDS describes the film as:
GKIDS proudly presents the highly-anticipated new film from director Makoto Shinkai and the creative team, including producer Genki Kawamura, behind the critically-acclaimed, global smash hit Your Name. The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if to suggest his future. He lives his days in isolation, but finally finds work as a writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky…
Source: Twitter (GKIDSFilms)
Shinkai’s “Weathering With You” Gets English Trailer, 1/17/2020 Premiere – Samantha Ferreira
