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The Place Promised in Our Early Days

Original title: 雲のむこう、約束の場所

Against all odds, a promise will be kept.

2004 · 1h 30m

Directed by Makoto Shinkai

6.6

TMDB audience score
578 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

In a post-war alternative timeline, Japan is divided into the North, controlled by the Union, and the South, controlled by the United States. A mysterious high tower rises within the borders of the Union. Three high school students promise to cross the border with a self-built airplane and unravel the secret of the tower.

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Cast

  • Hidetaka Yoshioka
    Hiroki Fujisawa (voice)

  • Masato Hagiwara
    Takuya Shirakawa (voice)

  • Yuuka Nanri
    Sayuri Sawatari (voice)

  • Unsho Ishizuka
    Okabe (voice)

  • Kazuhiko Inoue
    Tomizawa (voice)

  • Risa Mizuno
    Maki Kasahara (voice)

  • Hidenobu Kiuchi
    Arisaka (voice)

  • Masami Iwasaki
    Emishi Seisakujo Koin / Eki Shanai Announce / Byoin Incho (voice)

  • Eiji Takemoto
    Emishi Seisakujo Koin / TV News (voice)

  • Takahiro Hirano
    Emishi Seisakujo Koin / Daigakuinsei (voice)

  • Takeshi Maeda
    Daigakuinsei / Radio Hoso (voice)

  • Yûki Nakao
    Joshi Seito (voice)

  • Rie Nakagawa
    Hiroki's Girlfriend (voice)

  • Maki Saito
    Female Student (voice)

  • Kosuke Kujirai
    Male Student (voice)

  • Bretto Coleman
    American Soldier (voice)

  • Ian O'Neal
    NSA (voice)

  • 上世博及
    Japanese Coast Guard (voice)