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starring: Hidetaka Yoshioka, Masato Hagiwara, Yuka Nanri, Unshô Ishizuka, Kazuhiko Inoue directed by: Makoto Shinkai See Larger Image List Price: $29.98 Our Price: $19.99 You Save: $9.99 (33%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $13.49 Third Party New Price: $16.58 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: DVD EAN: 0702727127724 Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC Label: Adv Films Manufacturer: Adv Films Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Adv Films Region Code: 1 Release Date: July 12, 2005 Running Time: 91 minutes Sales Rank: 19189 Studio: Adv Films Theatrical Release Date: 2004 Related Items: Voices of a Distant Star 5 Centimeters Per Second Origin - Spirits of the Past: The Movie Millennium Actress Tokyo Godfathers see more Editorial Review: Description: In 1996, an enormous tower is constructed on the southern shore of Hokkaido, it's purpose-unknown. Curious, three school children make a vow to discover the mysterious tower's secrets. Will this promise have to be left unfulfilled when one of the three falls into a coma? Amazon.com: Makoto Shinkai made an impressive debut as a writer-director in Voices of a Distant Star (OVA, 2002); The Place Promised in Our Early Days (OVA, 2004) is his first studio work. In this alternate world, Japan was divided after World War II: Hokkaido, renamed 'Ezo,' belongs to 'the Union;' the rest of archipelago is an American dependency. Ezo is dominated by the Union Tower, a seemingly topless needle. Middle school students Hiroki and Takuya dream of visiting the Tower, and start building an airplane. They're joined by Sayuri, who nurtures a crush on Hiroki. As the characters move into high school, Sayuri falls into a coma. Hiroki and Takuya learn that her dreams are linked to the Tower and to experiments in contacting parallel universes. Shinkai fills the screen with sun-drenched landscapes that recall the films of Hayao Miyazaki, but the story rambles and falters. Although his understated style is often effective, Shinkai needs to learn to pace a longer work. The narrative often feels choppy, and the ending weak. Serious anime fans will want to watch the progress of this talented young director. (Unrated, suitable for ages 13 and older: alcohol and tobacco use, minor violence) --Charles Solomon Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Excellent follow up to Voices of a Distant Star The Place Promised in Our Early Days is Makoto Shinkai's first full length movie. In this one he has attempted to broaden his focus beyond what he did with Voices of a Distant Star, taking more time to flesh out a plot that reaches beyond his main characters. In broadening his focus I feel that this movie loses a little in terms of characterization: where 'Voices' was very emotionally moving, this film is less so. Don't get me wrong, it is a great film, and what the director does here in terms ... Read More Rating: - Shinkai Makoto creates another winner! Back in 2002, Makoto Shinkai won an award as "Most Valuable Newcomer" at the Tokyo Anime Fair 21 for his film "Voices of a Distant Star". What made this film so different from many anime out there was that it was created only by a staff of one and that was Shinkai Makoto, himself. Using a Power Macintosh 7600/120 computer and various consumer and professional design and animation software, he was able to write, direct and create an animation so beautiful that ... Read More Rating: - Dreaming of Other Worlds After watching and thoroughly enjoying Shinkai Makoto's 5 Centimeters Per Second the other day, I decided to go in reverse order and watch all of his major films with The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004) being up next. In many ways I found The Place Promised in Our Early Days to be similar to 5 Centimeters Per Second: they both deal with young love, separation from loved one, isolation, and an overall sense of melancholy that is infused within nearly every scene with sparks of happiness that only ... Read More Rating: - Quiet but forceful Some other-world Japan has been split in two, like our world's Korea. War hasn't broken out yet, but everyone feels the impending, inevitable start of hostilities, as if war had some life of its own, independent of the humans who fight and die in it. Then, just across the border, the other side has erected a mysterious tower, a needle that pierces the sky. This is the backdrop against which people live their lives and against which children go to school, with that silent, shining tower standing ... Read More Rating: - Beyond the Clouds Motoko Shinkai has been hailed as the greatest animation genius to come out of Japan since Miyazaki himself. He made his first widely hailed success on his iMac and did the voice-acting himself. It was called Voices of a Distant Star, at less than an hour in length, it was the greatest story of light-speed time-delay since Gunbuster, a Mecha sci-fi that focused on two (literally) star-crossed lovers and their battle against time and for the salvation of the human race, when all they really wanted was to be together. ... Read More see more Browse for similar items by category: Animation - Genres - DVD - Video - General Anime & Manga - Genres - DVD - Video - General By Studio - Anime & Manga - Genres - DVD - Video - ADV Films Japan - By Country - Art House & International - Genres - DVD - Video - Drama Japan - By Country - Art House & International - Genres - DVD - Video - General AAS