If you have any romantic inclinations whatsoever — and can deal with reading (very well done!) subtitles — it’s definitely worth going to see Weathering with You on a big screen.
The title is… well, I’m sure the production company did their best. According to the Spousal Unit, the original Japanese Tenki no Ko is literally ‘Heaven’s Energy’ (ten) with ‘suffix attached to girls’ names’ (ko). I’d have gone with something like Finding the Rain Maiden, but perhaps you’d need to have seen the film already for that to make sense.
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This was one of the trailers at the showing, and I’m looking forward to it, because I have a weakness for fox demons…
Unfortunately, that won’t happen immediately — it was due for release in China this week, but (quite sensibly!) Chinese authorities have shut down all new releases due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Mnemosyne
Since our movie didn’t get a nomination, I’m hoping that Klaus takes the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. It’s charming, well-written, well animated, AND it would be a poke in the eye to all of the big guys. ?
dm
Tenki is “weather”; Tenki no ko is literally “Weather’s child” or “Child of the Weather” (though I’ve had no formal education in Japanese).
OldDave
Weathering With You gets a thumbs up from me, however it is getting harder to find it in a theater – at least here in South Florida.
Of the films up for Best Animated Feature, I’d have to go with Missing Link, if only because I’m in awe of the effort and planning that goes into a stop-action title.
Yutsano
@dm: There’s a subtlety in Japanese that’s really hard to translate. Literally it is “Child of the Weather” but Japanese prepositions are really postpositions because the object is before the subject. But “child” here can imply youth, naivete, the start of something, anything like that. Japanese is really big on context sensitivity.
NotMax
Compatible place to repeat, for the feline folk, the live action Japanese show Samurai Cat is available on Prime.
Montanareddog
Released this week where I live and have booked to take Montanaredbitch and Montanaredpup to see it tomorrow night. We saw Your Name together, what, 3 years ago and all 3 of us were crying by the end.
Robert Sneddon
@dm: The Japanese language allows for quite intricate subversions of meanings, plays on words and other tricks, some of them verbal like homonyms. “Ko” and the kanji 子 is one of those words — it’s usually a feminine indicator when referring to young people but it has other meanings when combined with other words.
My own interpretation of the movie’s title, although it’s not quite grammatically correct, is “Weather Girl”.
Steeplejack
@Robert Sneddon:
“Weather girl” has the unfortunate connotation of a bimbo on an old TV newscast. I saw the movie last week and think that “The Weather Maiden” would have been a good title. That’s how several of the characters refer to the girl in the film.
I can second Anne Laurie’s recommendation. The movie is visually stunning, definitely worth seeing on the big screen. There are a lot of threads woven in: climate change, of course, but also teenage love, family dynamics, homelessness in the big city. Even some cat humor! The occasional pop songs (featured in the trailer) didn’t do much for me, but the incidental music is excellent.
The trailer makes the movie seem more “amped up” than it is, and it layers those damn pop songs over parts of the movie where they don’t occur.
dm
@Robert Sneddon: (Yotsuno, too): yes, likely. It may also be somewhat idiomatic, since, apparently, the young woman protagonist is representative of a type from folklore.
I haven’t seen it yet.
Princess
I saw the trailer for “Weathering with you” when i went to see “Princess Kagoya” recently and it looked amazing. I believe it was done by the same people who did “Your Name.” I spent the month after Trump won watching anime and I recommend it to all as a coping strategy in these dark times.
Major Major Major Major
Saw it a couple weeks ago, definitely worth seeing. I thought Your Name was better; not everybody I saw it with agreed ??♂️
But yeah, good movie! See it!