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Suzume's Official Visual Guide to the Door Lock
Suzume's Official Visual Guide to the Door Lock
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Book Introduction
Top Korean box office hits of the first half of 2023
Makoto Shinkai's "The Locked Door of Suzume": The Book That Contains It All

The official visual guide for "The Locked Door of Suzume," which is called Director Makoto Shinkai's "disaster trilogy" following "Your Name" and "Weathering with You," and has established itself as the highest-grossing film of all time, has been published.


From a story guide reconstructed with numerous still cuts, on-site interviews with director Makoto Shinkai and other staff, acting interviews with the actors, the production process of character and background art, and special columns, this book is packed with rich and in-depth information that will satisfy not only fans who have seen the film, but even those who have not yet seen the film, along with gorgeous visuals.
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STORY GUIDE
CAST INTERVIEW
Nanoka Hara × Hokuto Matsumura
Fukatsu Eri (深津?里)
Sometani Shota / Ito Sairi
Hanase Kotone (花琴音) / Hanazawa Kana (花澤香菜)
Ryunosuke Kamiki / Hakuo Matsumoto
PRODUCTION NOTES
Until one cut of ART WORK "Suzume's Lockdown" is completed
2D work
Character design
Art rough/setting
Art background
STAFF INTERVIEW
Makoto Shinkai [original story, screenplay, director]
Yoko Miki [Assistant Director]
Kenichi Tsuchiya [Animation Director]
Takumi Tanji [Art Director]
Tomoko Yamamoto [Color Design]
Yoshitaka Takeuchi [CG Director]
Hiroyuki Seshita [CG character direction]
Ryosuke Tsuda [Director of Photography]
RADWIMPS [Music/Theme Song]
Jinnouchi Kazuma 陣?一? [Music]
Toaka Jyuumei [Theme Song]
[Lyrics] Kanata Haruka
[Lyrics] Suzume feat.
Toaka
Staff List
COLUMN #1 Food
COLUMN #2 Road Movie
COLUMN #3 Insert Song
COLUMN #4 [Special Contribution] Saeko Kimura

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Publisher's Review
Director Makoto Shinkai's greatest hit
Everything in "Suzume's Lockdown"

#1 at the Korean box office for five consecutive weeks, the highest-grossing Japanese film of all time, and the first non-English foreign film to surpass 5 million viewers... Released on March 8, 2023, "Suzume no Shukaku" maintained its position as the highest-grossing film throughout the first half of the year, becoming a social issue.
After the heat has passed, an official visual guidebook has been published to soothe the lingering emotions.


Director Makoto Shinkai established his own territory with the global hit "Your Name" and the solid success of "Weathering with You" that followed.
This time, he presented "Suzume's Locked Door," a work that confronts a real disaster head-on and provides empathy and hope to those who share the same pain.
The healing emotions that permeate the entire work deeply resonated with Korean audiences, and it was loved by Korean audiences even more than the worldwide hit, "Your Name."


"Suzume's Lockdown" has drawn countless repeat viewings, but has now closed in theaters.
The alternative that will soothe that regret is this official visual guide.

Director Makoto Shinkai, staff, and actors
Examining the process of putting emotion into a work

This official 'visual' guide is packed full of the essence of the beautiful visuals of 'Magician of Light' Makoto Shinkai.
Even aside from the storyline and emotion of the work, its beautiful visuals alone make it worth owning.
This work has been featured in numerous media outlets, but none contain as many beautiful stills as this guidebook.

Not only are there still cuts from the work, but the entire process of creating the work is also included, including the attractive character settings, background art that is so beautiful it is indistinguishable from reality, storyboards created through thorough planning, and special effects.


From the planning document that director Makoto Shinkai wrote when he first planned the work, to the process of completing each scene, it is recorded step by step.
This will allow you to check the work from start to finish.

Visualist director Makoto Shinkai
Even the feelings that cannot be expressed through visuals alone

How many hands go into the final production of a single animated film? While director Makoto Shinkai is known for creating most of his works single-handedly, his work now transcends the sole hands of Makoto Shinkai, drawing on a diverse range of talent, including top-notch staff and top-notch actors, to enhance its quality.


It would not be an exaggeration to say that the passion of RADWIMPS, who collaborated on many of Director Shinkai's works and built common experiences while stubbornly incorporating their own musical colors, the actors who have been faithful to their roles as characters appearing in Makoto Shinkai's worldview, and the production staff who put in more effort than imagined to live up to the director's insistence on high perfection, led the work to success.


This "Official Visual Guide to Suzume's Secret" is another way to appreciate the work, allowing you to calmly look at it and collect it without the constraints of running time, to see how this kind of feeling has taken shape.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: September 25, 2023
- Page count, weight, size: 128 pages | 750g | 210*275*12mm
- ISBN13: 9791171245239
- ISBN10: 1171245238

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