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The Place Promised in Our Early Days
Kumo no Mukou; Yakusoku no Basho; Beyond the Clouds; The Promised Place; 雲のむこう、約束の場所
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[WT!] The Place Promised in Our Early Days
Watch This: The Place Promised in Our Early Days
Type: Movie (1 Hour 25 Minutes.)
Year: 2004
Genres: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Military
I was split between doing a [WT!] for Rahxephon, 5 Centimeters Per Second and this but I decided to continue on moving through Makoto Shinkai catalogue since this was one of the earlier movies I watched before I went full anime fan. I also took the liberty of adding pictures because no one wants to read a giant wall of text and this film is certainly deserves to be seen as it is one of the more visually striking work of anime.
Introduction
Following Makoto Shinkai's first 30min OVA of Voices of a Distant Star in 2002, a momentous feat considering he made everything by himself, he was hired onto to CoMix Wave Inc. to direct an anime movie with full financial and production staff.
Plot Summary
Taking place in an alternate timeline where Japan in 1974, is divided up by the 'Union' and the United States of America along the Tsugaru Strait, located between the Northern Islands of Hokkaido and Southern Island of Honshu. In the post-war years, an obscenely tall white tower is constructed on the southern end of Hokkaido but its true function is shrouded in mystery and speculation. The year is now 1996, and three middle-school students come together over the course of a summer to build an aircraft that will fly them over the strait and visit the ominous tower. However, the sole girl of the trio, Sayuri Sawatari, suddenly becomes mysteriously ill with sleeping sickness and the entire project is abandoned with the two boys drifting off onto their own life paths. Three years later, on the verge of an armed conflict between the Union and the United States over Japan, they discover Sayuri's unconsciousness is somehow linked with secrets of the tower and push forth to fulfill that promise they made to each other.
Spectacular Artwork
If Voices of a Distant Star is what a single Makoto Shinkai could do, The Place Promised in Our Early Days is exactly what happens when he get a full production team to work underneath him. While his previous work was masterpiece of a solo effort, there were some very noticeable weaknesses. Gone are the horrid character designs and replaced by conventional-looking ones but as welcome as those improvements are, they are not one of the reasons for viewing the show. As with any Makoto Shinkai work, the main trademark of his work is the absolutely gorgeous looking background art. In addition to putting hyper-realistic details into the backdrops, enhanced lighting to create some truly stunning moments that is worthy of becoming wallpapers for desktops and paintings to hang on the wall. Of course, his later works would completely superseded this but it wouldn't be a stretch to say that The Place Promised in Our Early Days is probably one of the best looking anime films to come out in the early 2000s .
Alternative History and Advanced Science that is Intermixed with Themes of Separation, Distance and Love
Although The Place Promised in Our Early Days has all the makings of a giant action thriller complete with global powers duking it out on the world stage, a mystifying overshadowing tower, and enough physics to make your head fall into a coma, its focus is far less grandiose. Rather than having endless exposition about the mechanics that drives the movie or fill it with action sequences, the film remains grounded it depicting the various relationship between characters, leaving its more technical aspects in the background. Whether it is the divide between Hokkaido and Japan, the longing to reunite with a spouse on the other side of the Tsugaru Strait or the bitter disconnection between dreams and reality, Makoto Shinkai plays to his strength of having his work relate to the struggles of life despite the sci-fi elements. I found the characters to be largely likable, their interactions to be believable and evoked strong feelings and emotions by having friends slowly drifted apart and enduring a bittersweet journey to mend that distance.
Sub or Dub?
As this movie does take places in modern-day Japan and is made by a Japanese staff, logic would dictate that Place Promised in Our Early Days should be watched in sub rather than having English voice actors ruin everything. However, this is one of my special cases where I do prefer the English voiceover over the original Japanese track. I rather liked the English voices that are behind the main characters of Hiroki and Takuya as they are able to have reach that sober tone when reminiscing about their experiences and fit into their respective roles very well. That same opinion goes for the adult characters as well especially when portraying the gruff Okabe and the well-educated and scientific Professor Tomizawa, who deals with some very high-level physics like quantum mechanics and parallel universes. This is merely my personal opinion, but do give both audio options a try before making up your mind. In either case, you really can't go wrong with the sub or dub.
TL;DR:
Mega White Tower. Pretty Colors.
9/10. It was ok.
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Synopsis
Alternative Titles
- English: The Place Promised in Our Early Days
- Japanese: 雲のむこう、約束の場所
- Synonyms: Beyond the Clouds, The Promised Place
Information
- Type: Movie
- Episodes: 1
- Status: Finished Airing
- Aired: Nov 20, 2004
- Premiered:
- Broadcast:
- Producers:
- Licensors: ADV Films
- Studios:CoMix Wave Films
- Source: Original
- Genres:Drama, Military, Romance, Sci-Fi
- Duration: 1 hr 30 min
- Rating: PG-13 – Teens 13 or older
Encode Details
- Video: 1080p BD x265 10bit
- Audio: 128k OPUS 2Ch
- Subtitles: Kametsu / Thora / Retail
Characters & Voice Actors
The Place Promised In Our Early Days English Sub Torrent Free
Fujisawa, Hiroki Main | Patton, Chris |
Sawatari, Sayuri Main | Boone, Jessica |
Shirakawa, Takuya Main | Hagiwara, Masato |
Okabe Supporting | Swasey, John |
Staff
Shinkai, Makoto Producer, Director, Sound Director, Script, Storyboard, Theme Song Lyrics, Color Design, Original Creator, Editing, Executive Producer |
Foster, Steven Script, ADR Director |
Kawashima, Ai Theme Song Performance |
Tenmon Theme Song Arrangement, Theme Song Composition, Music |
Fujiyama, Fusanobu Sound Manager |
Hiramaki, Daisuke In-Between Animation |
Hosoda, Naoto Key Animation |
Makihara, Ryoutarou Key Animation |
Oshiyama, Kiyotaka In-Between Animation |
Suzuki, Hiromi Assistant Animation Director |
Takano, Aya In-Between Animation |
Tanji, Takumi Background Art |
Tazawa, Ushio Art Director, Character Design |
Ueda, Kazuyuki Key Animation |
Watanabe, Tasuku Background Art |
Theme Songs
Opening Themes
Ending Themes
- ED1: “Kimi no Koe” by Kawashima, Ai
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The Place Promised in Our Early Days | |
雲のむこう、約束の場所 (Kumo no Mukō, Yakusoku no Basho) | |
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Genre | Drama, War, Romance, Science Fiction |
Anime film | |
Directed by |
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Produced by | Makoto Shinkai |
Written by | Makoto Shinkai |
Music by | Tenmon |
Studio | CoMix Wave Inc. |
Licensed by | |
Released | 20 November 2004 |
Runtime | 90 minutes |
Novel | |
Written by | Shinta Kanō |
Published by | Enterbrain |
Published | December 26, 2005 |
Manga | |
Written by | Makoto Shinkai |
Illustrated by | Sumomo Yumeka |
Published by | Kodansha |
Demographic | Seinen |
Magazine | Afternoon |
Original run | February 2006 – 25 August 2006 |
Volumes | 1 |
The Place Promised in Our Early Days (Japanese: 雲のむこう、約束の場所Hepburn: Kumo no Mukō, Yakusoku no Basho, lit. 'Beyond the Clouds, the Promised Place') is a 2004 Japanese animescience fictionwardrama film written, directed, produced, cinematographed, edited, and storyboarded by Makoto Shinkai in his feature film debut. Set over several years in an alternate history where the Soviet Union occupies half of Japan, the film follows two childhood friends who grow apart after one of their friends disappears; as international tension rises and a mysterious tower built by the Union starts replacing matter around it with matter from other universes, they cross paths once again and realize their missing friend might be the key to save the world.
Unlike his short film Voices of a Distant Star, which was largely made by Shinkai on his own, The Place Promised in Our Early Days is a full-scale production, as reflected by the better animation quality and the longer overall length. It has been broadcast across Japan by the anime satellite television network Animax. The film was licensed for North American release by ADV Films.
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Plot[edit]
After the Separation in Japan in 1974 the northern island, Hokkaidō (or Ezo, as it is called in the anime), was occupied by the 'Union' (referring to the Soviet Union). Also in that same year, the Union began the construction of a strange tower on Hokkaido designed by a scientist named Ekusun Tsukinoe. The anime follows the story of three friends living in Aomori, in northern Japan: two boys, Hiroki Fujisawa and Takuya Shirakawa, both child prodigies; and one girl, Sayuri Sawatari. In 1996, the three are in ninth grade, their last year of middle school, and they are fascinated by the Hokkaido Tower visible across the Tsugaru Strait to the north. Sayuri becomes close friends with the two boys.
The boys find a crashed Maritime Self-Defense Forcedrone plane and work on rebuilding the plane with the support of Mr. Okabe, their boss at a military plant. The three teenagers promise to one day fly to Hokkaido to visit the Tower. However, before they can do this, Sayuri mysteriously disappears during the summer.
Three years later, Takuya and Hiroki have stopped working on the plane, having taken different paths after the grief they suffered at Sayuri's disappearance. Takuya is working as a physicist at an Alliance scientific facility sponsored by the United States' National Security Agency, researching parallel universes alongside Ms. Maki Kasahara under the supervision of Professor Tomizawa. They know that the Hokkaido Tower, which began operating in 1996, replaces matter around it with matter from other universes, but they do not yet know why it does this for only a 2-km radius. Takuya becomes involved with the Uilta Liberation Front after he learns that Mr. Okabe is its leader; his factory workers are the other agents of the organization. Okabe signs Takuya on for an excursion to Ezo with Uilta.
Sayuri is revealed to have been hospitalized over the past three years, having developed an extreme form of narcolepsy; she has been sleeping continuously for most of the three years. Her mind is trapped in an unpopulated parallel universe, where she is all alone. Tomizawa has discovered that she is somehow connected to the Union's research into parallel universes and the Hokkaido Tower's ability to change the surrounding land into alternate possibilities, but Tomizawa keeps this information, as well as her whereabouts, secret from Takuya initially. Tomizawa is secretly working with the Uilta Liberation Front and lets Mr. Okabe know about Sayuri, while Mr. Okabe reveals that the Uilta Liberation Front plans to bomb the Hokkaido Tower to incite war against the Union, hoping that this will lead to the reunification of Japan.
Takuya finally learns of the most likely scenario through his coworker – that Sayuri was used by her grandfather, a Union physicist, to channel all of the Tower's unstable dimension-creating energy somewhere other than Earth, the implication of him not having done so likely having resulted in the dimension creating chain reactions around the tower to continue growing in area until it enveloped the whole world. Saddened, he goes back to the old warehouse where he and Hiroki were working on the plane, only to find Hiroki, who wants Takuya to help him complete the plane to save Sayuri. He coldly points a gun at Hiroki and has him choose between Sayuri and the World without waiting for an answer – walking away in pain.
With Okabe's guidance, Takuya locks up his coworker and takes Sayuri away from the NSA compound – Takuya and Hiroki finally come back together to work on the plane. Takuya helps to finish the final programming of the plane, as they plan, using the cover of the soon coming declaration of war against Ezo, to fly to the tower and destroy it before its rays affect everything on Earth, which in turn will save Sayuri.
The plane only seats two, so Takuya allows Hiroki to pilot the plane and fulfill their childhood promise. Hiroki manages to fly the plane across the strait to the Tower carrying Sayuri and a missile provided by the Uilta Liberation Front. When Sayuri finally awakens while the plane circles the Tower, the Tower activates and immediately begins to transform the surrounding area; the area under transformation grows to encompass much of Hokkaido. In the last few minutes of her coma, Sayuri realizes that when she awakes she will lose all her memories of her dreams of the past 3 years, and thus upon waking she weeps because, unknowingly, she lost the memory of her love for Hiroki. Flying back, Hiroki fires the missile, destroying the Tower and stopping the matter transformation. The film ends with Hiroki vowing to Sayuri that they will start their relationship anew.
Cast[edit]
Character | Japanese voice actor | English voice actor |
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Hiroki Fujisawa | Hidetaka Yoshioka | Chris Patton |
Takuya Shirakawa | Masato Hagiwara | Kalob Martinez |
Sayuri Sawatari | Yūka Nanri | Jessica Boone |
Professor Tomizawa | Kazuhiko Inoue | Andy McAvin |
Maki Kasahara | Risa Mizuno | Kira Vincent-Davis |
Okabe | Unshō Ishizuka | John Swasey |
Arisaka | Hidenobu Kiuchi | Illich Guardiola |
Emishi Manufacturing employee | Eiji Takemoto | Adam Jones |
Emishi Manufacturing employee, Hospital Director, Train Announcer | Masami Iwasaki | Andrew Love |
Emishi Manufacturing employee, Graduate Student | Takahiro Hirano | Jacob A.Gragard |
Female student, Nurse, TV Announcer | Maki Saitou | Hilary Haag |
Female student | Yuki Nakao | Mariela Ortiz |
Male student | Kōsuke Kujirai | Matthew Crawford |
Female student, Nurse, Hiroki's girlfriend | Rie Nakagawa | Lesley Tesh |
Patrol Boat Warnings | Hirochika Kamize | N/A |
US Military Officer | Brett Coleman | N/A |
NSA | Ian O'Neal | |
Additional voices | N/A |
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Allusions[edit]
The film includes several references to other literary works and themes, such as separation and dreams. The poem read by Sayuri in class is Eiketsu no Asa (永訣の朝Morning of the Last Farewell)[1] from the poem collection Haru to Shura (春と修羅Spring and Asura) by a well-known Japanese writer Kenji Miyazawa (1896–1933). It was written on the occasion of the premature death of his sister, Toshi Miyazawa (1898–1922). Furthermore, during the summer sequence of the film, Sayuri is seen reading a novel titled 'The Net Involved in a Dream' ('夢網''Dream Net') by Morishita Sakae. Although the author is fictional, a book of the same name [2] exists by a similarly named poet, Hoshio Sakae.[3]
A reference to the director's previous work is made when Takuya and Hiroki meet at the station. They see a cat which Takuya calls Chobi, the name of the cat from She and Her Cat. Uta no prince psp english patch.
Production[edit]
The Place Promised In Our Early Days
Aomori Station was featured at the beginning of the film.
Music[edit]
Theme song[edit]
Your voice (きみのこえKimi no koe)
- Performed by Ai Kawashima
- Lyrics by Makoto Shinkai
- Music by Tenmon
- Arranged by Tenmon
OST – Beyond the Clouds, the Promised Place[edit]
Track list:
- メインテーマ / Main Theme
- 日常 / Nichijou (Daily)
- 駅 / Eki (Station)
- サユリ / Sayuri
- 二人の計画 / Futari no Keikaku (Plan of the Two)
- もう一つの夢 / Mou Hitotsu no Yume (One More Dream)
- 希望と憧れ / Kibou to Akogare (Hope and Aspiration)
- 遠い約束 / Tooi Yakusoku (Distant Promise)
- サユリの旋律 / Sayuri no Senritsu (Sayuri's Melody)
- 兆候 / Choukou (Omen)
- 無垢 / Muku (Purity)
- 夏の終わり / Natsu no Owari (The End of Summer)
- 探求 / Tankyuu (Quest)
- 世界の見る夢 / Sekai no Miru Yume (Dream of the World)
- 誰もいない場所 / Dare mo Inai Basho (Deserted Place)
- 孤独 / Kodoku (Solitude)
- 襲撃〜眠り姫 / Shuugeki ~ Nemuri Hime (Attack ~ Sleeping Princess)
- ひとときの再会 / Hitotoki no Saikai (A Time of Reunion)
- 永遠の夏 / Eien no Natsu (Eternal Summer)
- 二人の葛藤 / Futari no Kattou (Conflict of the Two)
- サユリの世界 / Sayuri no Sekai (Sayuri's World)
- タクヤの決意 / Takuya no Ketsui (Takuya's Determination)
- ヒロキの旋律 / Hiroki no Senritsu (Hiroki's Melody)
- 開戦〜ヴェラシーラ / Kaisen ~ Velaciela (The Battle Begins ~ Velaciela)
- 雲のむこう、約束の場所 / Kumo no Mukou, Yakusoku no Basho (Beyond the Clouds, the Promised Place)
- きみのこえ / Kimi no Koe (Your Voice)
- パイロット版「雲のむこう、約束の場所」 / Pilot-ban 'Kumo no Mukou, Yakusoku no Basho' (Pilot Edition 'Beyond the Clouds, the Promised Place')
Release[edit]
Noted animation film distribution company GKIDS acquired the North American rights. GKIDS plans an Summer 2019 theatrical release in its original Japanese and a dubbed English-language version.
Awards[edit]
- Special Distinction (Feature Film category) – Seoul Comics and Animation Festival 2005
- Silver Prize on Best Animated Film Section (by audience choice) of Public Prize – Canada Fantasia Film Festival
- Award for Art in Seiun Award – 44th Japanese SF Convention
- Best Animated Film – Mainichi Film Awards 2004
- Award for Expression Technique (for Trailer #1) – Tokyo International Anime Fair 2003[4]
DVD[edit]
Regular release[edit]
- The Place Promised in Our Early Days (90 Minutes)
- 3 Video Interviews with Japanese Cast
- Original Japanese Trailer Collection
Collector's edition[edit]
Disc 1 (DVD)[edit]
- The Place Promised in Our Early Days (90 Minutes)
- 3 Video Interviews with Japanese Cast
- Original Japanese Trailer Collection
Disc 2 (DVD)[edit]
- The Place Promised in Our Early Days (Animated Storyboards, 90 Minutes)
- Interview with Makoto Shinkai
- Animated Gallery 2002 — 2004
Disc 3 (CDROM)[edit]
- 35 Still Images
- Sheet Music
Book[edit]
- The Place Promised in Our Early Days (Storyboards, 360 pages)
Manga[edit]
The Place Promised in Our Early Days was also serialized as a manga in Afternoon. Serialization began in February 2006 and ended in August 2006, with a total of seven chapters. The story is by Makoto Shinkai while the art is by Mizu Sahara.
Stage adaption[edit]
The film was adapted into a stage play directed by Yuko Naito. The stage adaptation's script is written by Shigeki Motoiki and the music by Masato Komata. It had 7 performances from April 20 - April 24, 2018, at the Tokyo International Forum Hall C venue in Tokyo and 2 performances on May 02, 2018, at the NHK Osaka Hall venue in Osaka.
The cast includes Yudai Tatsumi, Shô Takada, Momoka Ito, Kazuyuki Matsuzawa, Wataru Kozuki, Atsuko Asano, and others.[5]
References[edit]
- ^'Miyazawa Kenji's 'Eiketsu no Asa''. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
- ^'夢網'. honto. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
- ^ja:ほしおさなえ
- ^'楽天が運営するポータルサイト : 【インフォシーク】Infoseek'. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
- ^Stage Play Adapts Makoto Shinkai's 'The Place Promised in Our Early Days'
External links[edit]
- The Place Promised in Our Early Days on IMDb
- The Place Promised in Our Early Days (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- The Place Promised in Our Early Days at Rotten Tomatoes
- The Place Promised in Our Early Days Review at Anime+ Podcast