5 Centimeters Per Second Explained

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v Centimeters per Second (秒速5センチメートル, Byōsoku Go Senchimētoru) is a 2007 Japanese blithe romantic drama motion picture produced, written and directed by Makoto Shinkai. It is his second feature movie.

It premiered at Movie theater Rise in Shibuya, Tokyo on March three, 2007.

Plot

🕒 Timeline in 5 Centimeters per 2d

Cherry Flower

(桜花抄, Ōkashō)

Takaki and Akari walking under the cherry blossoms together.

Two kids are walking together equally the cherry blossom petals fall. After the girl reveals that the falling speed of a blood-red bloom petal is five centimeters per second, she runs toward a railroad train crossing and quickly crosses information technology. On the other side of the lowered crossing, she makes a hope to the male child that they will see the cherry blossoms together next year.

Takaki Tōno meets Akari Shinohara in the fourth grade of elementary schoolhouse. Since both of them had to move often due to their parents' piece of work, they are always awkward around others; however, considering of their similar circumstances, they become close friends. Takaki confesses to Akari his dream of becoming a cosmonaut, and she encourages him in pursuing such a dream. Due to how close they were, rumours near them existence in a romantic human relationship begins to sprout out. However, towards the end of elementary school, Akari discovers that her family had to motility away to Iwafune. Despite her intent to go to the same junior high school equally Takaki in Tokyo, she could practice nil but take it. During the graduation twenty-four hours, Takaki couldn't properly say farewell to Akari.

In centre school, Takaki and Akari go on in contact through messages. Notwithstanding, with time the messages get less frequent. When Takaki'due south parents tells him that they are to motion to Tanegashima, he decides to meet Akari when he nonetheless has the chance. The day of the meeting, he brings a letter which he hopes to convey to her his feelings with. Unfortunately, a severe snowstorm delays the train, and he arrives in Iwafune many hours afterward the appointed time, losing the letter in the process, but Akari is still at that place. Subsequently he eats a bento she fabricated for him, they wanders around in the snow, sharing a kiss in front end of a cherry tree before finding a shed to slumber into. The side by side morn, Takaki boards the railroad train to Tokyo, with Akari telling him that he would be fine no matter what.

Cosmonaut

(コスモナウト, Kosumonauto)

Kanae and Takaki looking upward at the blasting-off rocket.

In 1999, Takaki is at present in the 3rd year of senior high in Tanegashima, where the Tanegashima Space Center is located. Kanae Sumida, a classmate of Takaki, has been in love with him e'er since coming together him in junior high school but has never had the courage to confess her feelings. She tries to spend fourth dimension with him, waiting long after school for the take a chance to travel home together. Notwithstanding, Takaki appears ignorant to Kanae'southward feelings and only treats her as a proficient friend. Kanae observes that Takaki is always writing emails to someone or staring off into the altitude as if searching for something far away. It is later shown that Takaki'due south emails are not existence sent to anyone, and that he has had recurring dreams which feature Akari. After a failed attempt to tell Takaki she loves him, Kanae eventually realizes that he is looking for something far across what she can offer and decides not to, though she believes she will always love him.

five Centimeters per 2nd

(秒速5センチメートル, Byōsoku Become Senchimētoru)

It is 2008. Takaki is at present a programmer in Tokyo. Meanwhile, Akari is preparing to get married to some other human. Takaki notwithstanding longs for Akari to the detriment of his lifestyle. He receives a call from his current girlfriend just does not answer, signifying the human relationship's terminate. Depressed, Takaki quits his job, unable to cope with his feelings for Akari. Akari goes through a box of her old possessions and finds the alphabetic character she had written to Takaki many years ago. Takaki finds himself in a convenience store reading a magazine nearly the rocket he saw launched in years ago. With a hit song played in the groundwork, Takaki and Akari begin a dual narration, both recalling a recent dream. In this dream, they relive their last meeting in the snow-filled Iwafune, and recollect the wish to someday picket the cherry blossoms together over again.

One day while walking downward the aforementioned road they had while they were children, Takaki and Akari appear to pass and recognize each other at a train crossing. On reverse sides of the tracks, they stop and begin to look back, merely passing trains cut off their view. Takaki waits for the trains to pass and finds that Akari is gone. Afterwards a moment, he smiles to himself and continues walking as the cherry blossoms stir in the train's wake.