Directed by Makoto Shinkai
Screenplay by Makoto Shinkai
Starring: Kenji Mizubashi/Yoshimi Kondo/Remi Hanamura/Ayaka Onami/Risa Mizuno/More…
Genre: Drama/Romance/Animation
Production country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Release Date: 2007-03-03(Japan)
Running time: 63 minutes
A brief synopsis of 5 cm per second
If the cherry blossom falls at a rate of 5 centimeters per second, how long does it take for two hearts to get close?
As teenagers, Taki (Kenji Mizubashi) and Akira (Yoshimi Kondo) are inseparable friends, but soon a huge gulf comes between them: Akira transfers to another school, and Taki follows his parents’ move to Kagoshima. Before moving, GUI tree took the Shinkansen thousands of miles and Mingli meet, after a long wait, in the vast snow, two people in the withered cherry tree deep embrace, and give each other’s first kiss, agreed to see the cherry blossom together next time.
Time flies, two people have never seen each other, although in the crowd has been searching for each other’s figure, but it seems always in vain. Later, they have their own lives, but occasionally dream of this young and beautiful feelings at the age of 13, only to understand that how can not say the word is love.