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'''''Suzume''''' (すずめの戸締まり, ''Suzume no Tojimari'', lit. "Suzume's Locking Up") is a 2022 fantasy anime film by [[Makoto Shinkai]], his eighth major production. Its soundtrack sees the return of RADWIMPS, this time in collaboration with Kazuma Jinnouchi, and with TikTok star Toaka doing vocals on the eponymous song. It is animated by CoMix Wave Films and distributed by Toho. In Japan, the film released in November. It is released in April 2023 in English speaking countries. The film was a box office hit, quickly becoming the fourth anime film to surpass the "$300 million in box office revenue" milestone, following behind ''[[Spirited Away]]'', ''[[Your Name]]'', and ''[[Demon Slayer: Mugen Train]]''. Most of the revenue came from Asian regions, most notably Japan, China, and South Korea. A home video release is announced for September 2023.
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 Souta Munakata (also spelt 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 Souta 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 Souta 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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** The [[Invisible to Normals]] nature of the worm, while obviously fantastic, reflects a very real possibility overlapping with [[Paranoia Fuel]] that danger could be lurking around the corner at any moment with you not knowing until it's too late.
** You lose someone right before your eyes, helpless to do anything.
* [[Aliens in Cardiff]]: While the story does have vital scenes in Tokyo, it starts and ends in the Tōhoku region, and various intermediary scenes are set in the less well-known Miyazaki, Ehime and Hyōgo Prefectures.
* [[The Alleged Car]]: Serizawa's fancy-looking convertible doesn't have a roof that can close properly, which becomes troublesome when it starts raining.
* [[Amusement Park]]: The third door is located in an abandoned amusement park in Kobe.
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* [[Exact Eavesdropping]]: Tomoya complains about how Souta missed his exam to become a teacher. There aren't a lot of good things about becoming a chair, but one of the few good ones is how you can eavesdrop on entire conversations. No one will notice; you blend right into the background! However, this poses a question: how come something this important is being talked about at the exact time Souta is in the room? It is a wonder that Tomoya and Suzume aren't having a good [[Talk About the Weather]].
* [[False Camera Effects]]: Take a shot every time the film uses bloom, screen shake, or depth of field. You'll be dead in thirty minutes.
* [[Foreshadowing]]:
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* [[Ghibli Hills]]: Present in a lot of abandoned locations where doors are located. The hills are covered in vivid blades of grass. Also present in the Ever After dimension.▼
** Daijin keeps getting sighted on social media in ways that make conveniently obvious where it's at. {{spoiler|Almost as if it's not actually the one opening the doors to let the worm out...}}
▲* [[Ghibli Hills]]: Present in a lot of abandoned locations where doors are located. The hills are covered in vivid blades of grass
* [[Ghibli Plains]]: The film opens and ends with Ghibli Plains near night time in the Ever After dimension. The trope is used to create a feeling of vastness.
* [[Ghost Town]]: The [[Portal Door]] which Suzume first closes is located here, an abandoned onsen resort. Another portal takes the form of the main entrance of a school where the surrounding town was abandoned following a landslide.
* [[Got Volunteered]]: {{spoiler|When Daijin bound Souta in Suzume's chair, it also turned him into a replacement keystone without his having a chance to refuse.}}
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* [[Muggles]]: Normal people cannot see worms, and will go about their day to day life as usual even when the world is ending, because they don't notice anything. Only Closers (and Suzume) can see the [[Eldritch Abomination]]s and do something about them.
* [[The Needs of the Many]]: {{spoiler|Souta's grandfather tries to persuade Suzume to leave Souta's sacrifice be because it spared the lives of the Tokyoites. It doesn't work}}.
* [[Never Got to Say Goodbye]]:
* [[Never Got to Say Goodbye]]: Inverted with the visions of the people who used to stay in the Tōhoku area, as they said goodbye but never got to be welcomed back.▼
** Suzume never got to say parting words to her mother.
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* [[Next Sunday A.D.]]: The film is set in 2023 and was released in 2022 in its native Japan, 2023 for the rest of us, with no obvious difference from reality.
* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: Chanting occurs whenever Souta and Suzume try to close a door against the worm. The soundtrack has a field day with the chanting.
* [[Portal Door]]: The solitary doors in the ruins, which apparently lead to a starry area. It's impossible for her to step through, though. Any attempts to do so only lands her on the other side of the door. {{spoiler|They're portals to the Ever-After, where the souls of the dead go and all time is present simultaneously, and the living normally can't go there. A young Suzume somehow fell through one, and the only way to go back is to find the same one again.}}
* [[POV Cam]]: Right after Suzume helps Chika, a door opens and is about to unleash a worm. A POV shot is used to showcase the urgency of Suzume running as fast as possible to close it in time.
* [[Product Placement]]: While taking Suzume on as a passenger, Rumi stops to get McDonalds while on the way home, with a fair bit of time in the following shots dedicated to it. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cON1-yyNXzw Shinkai even made an official commercial crossing the film and Macca's.]
* [[Road Movie]]: Suzume goes on the road and travels to many different places in Japan trying to catch Daijin and turn chair-Souta back to normal. {{spoiler|Then she goes on the road ''again'' trying to turn Keystone-Souta back to normal}}. Each place usually has a door which needs to be closed. Among the way, Suzume meets many different people who help her.
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*** A phenomenon that allows {{spoiler|people separated by time to interact}} plays an important role.
*** A shot of a sliding train door is identical to how that's depicted in the earlier film.
*** "Itomori High School" is played at one point.
** Like in ''[[5 Centimeters per Second]]'', the main character has an apparent dream of an older loved one who is dearly missed set in an otherworldly landscape.
** "Welcome to K&A" from the ''[[Weathering with You]]'' soundtrack is played at a different point.
* [[Skeleton Key]]: The key Souta carries around works to close any door, no matter its location, size, or orientation. Usually, you want a key to unlock a door. Not this time, though. It would be ''very'' bad if the key unlocks stuff. The best part about the key? It doesn't make skeleton related puns!
* [[Slice of Life]]: The main part of the film opens this way, starring the journey of an [[Ordinary High School Student]] biking to school. Fantastic sequences of closing the doors are also contrasted with mundane life with the people that Suzume encounters.
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