{"id":3062,"date":"2011-03-11T16:24:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T15:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/news\/?p=1641"},"modified":"2014-03-29T08:10:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T07:10:55","slug":"5-centimetres-per-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2011\/03\/11\/5-centimetres-per-second\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Centimetres per Second"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1642\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1642\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/news\/2011\/03\/11\/5-centimetres-per-second\/review_5_centimetres_per_second\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1642\" class=\"broken_link\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/review_5_Centimetres_Per_Second-594x334.jpg?resize=474%2C267\" alt=\"\" title=\"5 Centimetres per Second\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1642\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1642\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">5 Centimetres per Second<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"left\">\n<p class=\"caption\">\n<B>Format:<\/B> DVD <br style=\"line-height: 22px;\"><br \/>\n<B>Release date:<\/B> 14 March 2011 <br style=\"line-height: 22px;\"><br \/>\n<B>Distributor:<\/B> Manga Entertainment<br style=\"line-height: 22px;\"><br \/>\n<B>Director:<\/B> Makoto Shinkai<br style=\"line-height: 22px;\"><br \/>\n<B>Writers:<\/B> Steven Foster, Makoto Shinkai<br style=\"line-height: 22px;\"><br \/>\n<B>Original title:<\/B> <I>By&ocirc;soku 5 senchim\u00eatoru<\/I><br style=\"line-height: 22px;\"><br \/>\nJapan 2007<br style=\"line-height: 22px;\"><br \/>\n63 mins\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Makoto Shinkai&#8217;s <I>5 Centimetres per Second<\/I> is having a belated DVD release on March 14. With only one feature film, three shorts and one medium-length work to his name, Makoto Shinkai is a thirty-something <I>anim\u00e9<\/I> director who has generated far more praise than his relative youth and short career would seem to deserve. Dubbed the new Hayao Miyazaki by the <I>anim\u00e9<\/I> press, this is something of a misnomer as the two directors have very little in common other than creating films with greater emotional depth and a more singular vision than those of their peers. However, while Miyazaki works primarily in the nostalgic fantasy genre for a child\/family audience, Shinkai makes thoughtful, austere films that tap into contemporary concerns about humanity&#8217;s relationship with technology and how it both connects and separates us from the people around us. While <I>5 Centimetres per Second<\/I> is slightly underwhelming compared to his previous two films <I>The Place Promised in Our Early Days<\/I> and <I>Voices of a Distant Star<\/I>, his films at their best show a director who has a genuinely affecting visual aesthetic that recalls the live action films of Andrei Tarkovsky. It is this sensitivity to form and place that have earned the director his reputation, cemented by the fact that his first two shorts were made by the director almost entirely by himself on a home computer. <\/p>\n<div class=\"info\">Read our <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/features\/2008\/06\/01\/interview-with-makoto-shinkai\/\">interview with Makoto Shinkai<\/A>.<\/div>\n<p><I><B>Alex Fitch<\/B><\/I><\/p>\n<div id=\"expander\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Makoto Shinkai makes thoughtful, austere films that tap into contemporary concerns about humanity&#8217;s relationship with technology.<br \/>\n<I><B>Capsule by Alex Fitch<\/B><\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-3062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-check-it-out","category-dvds-and-blu-rays","tag-japanese-cinema"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/purUP-No","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1026,"url":"https:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2010\/04\/03\/the-sky-crawlers\/","url_meta":{"origin":3062,"position":0},"title":"The Sky Crawlers","author":"VirginieSelavy","date":"April 3, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The Sky Crawlers is a languid tale of young fighter pilots in a near future that evokes both real world conflicts, such as the 1940s War in the Pacific, and fictional ones, such as the perpetual warfare in George Orwell's 1984. 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