Suzume (film): Difference between revisions

In present day, Suzume is now a high school student staying with her aunt Tamaki (Eri Fukatsu) in Miyazaki Prefecture, Kyushu, southwest Japan. One morning while cycling to school, she passes a college-age young man looking for ruins, who she later learns is named Sōta Munakata (Hokuto Matsumura). She beats him to an abandoned onsen resort, where she finds a solitary door through which an inaccessible starry sky can be seen. In the process, she dislodges a keystone that turns into a white cat. Later, returning to the resort from school after seeing a wormlike maroon emanation from that direction, she reencounters Sōta and helps him close the door the emanation is coming through. He gets injured in the process, and Suzume takes him home to bandage the wound. However, the cat appears and curses him to be bound into a three-legged chair that Suzume's mother had made for her. Suzume and Sōta now have to pursue the cat, which social media nicknames Daijin (Ann Yamane), across Japan in the hope of subduing it before it opens any more doors to let disaster through again.

 

 

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** {{spoiler|Serizawa just happens to be outside Ochanomizu Station when Suzume is passing by. Then Tamaki just happens to find her there as well, as opposed to any of the many, many other stations in Tokyo she could have tried looking at.}}

* [[Cool Key]]: The keys used to close doors. The word "elaborate" doesn't begin to describe them.

* [[Creative Closing Credits]]: The film proper does a [[Close on Title]] after Sōta and Suzume close the door near Suzume's old house. The first part of the credits then play over an epilogue showing {{spoiler|Sōta and Suzume parting ways at a train station and a montage of Suzume and Tamaki returning to Miyazaki while visiting the people that had been met along the way.}} The rest of the credits are in the standard white-on-black.

* [[Cute Kitten]]: Daijin. He is, however, far more devious than his cute looks would suggest.

* [[Got Volunteered]]: {{spoiler|When Daijin bound Sōta in Suzume's chair, it also turned him into a replacement keystone without his having a chance to refuse.}}

* [[The Gump]]: In an antagonist variant, the worm's escapes are responsible for various historical disasters. The [[wikipedia:1923 Great Kantō earthquake|1923 Great Kantō earthquake]] is explicitly said to be one of those.

* [[Heavy Sleeper]]: Sōta in chair form falls asleep ''very'' often and is difficult to wake. Early on, it is played for laughs, but as the film progresses the simple fact takes a much darker turn: {{spoiler|Sōta's energy is being depleted as he slowly turns into a keystone}}.

* [[Heroic Lineage]]: Sōta is the latest in a line of Closers tasked with closing doors across Japan before the worm can escape.

* [[Memento MacGuffin]]: The chair Suzume's mother made for her as a young child. One of its legs snapped off, though Suzume can't remember how. Poor Sōta was cursed to ''become'' the chair.

* [[Mistaken Identity]]: {{spoiler|Suzume mistakes Suzume to be Suzume's mum. No, seriously. As a child, she believed an older version of herself was her mum picking her up in the Ever After}}. None of this is played for laughs.

* [[The Needs of the Many]]: {{spoiler|Sōta's grandfather tries to persuade Suzume to leave Sōta's sacrifice be because it spared the lives of the Tokyoites.}}

* [[Nephewism]]: After Suzume's mother died, her aunt Tamaki took over as her caregiver.