Movie Recommendation: The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004)

Starring: Hidetaka Yoshioka, Masato Hagiwara & Yuka Nanri
Written & Directed by: Makoto Shinkai
Genre(s): Animated, Anime

The Place Promised in Our Early Years

NO SPOILERS HERE!

I saw this movie when it was first released back in 2004 and I recently rediscovered it in my DVD collection.

One word describes this movie: BEAUTIFUL — the animation, the story, the characters and of course the music.  What a marvelous piece of filmmaking!

The story is about three young students (Hiroki, Takuya & Sayuri) in Japan on a quest to discover the secrets behind a mysterious tower.  A promise is made to fly there in airplane designed and built by Hiroki and Takuya.

HIROKI: Back then, I felt that this place, this time would last forever.  The tower I admired that lay beyond the clouds… became the place of a precious promise.  At that moment we weren’t afraid of anything.  But in reality, the world and the flow of time kept on going all around me.

Movie Trailer:
Music (“Hiroki’s Melody”):
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