Five centimeters per second, an animated short film with a teenager as the axis of the story, unfolds three consecutive independent stories, set in the 1990s to modern Japan, and shows the changes in Tokyo and other areas through the life of a teenager.
Cherry Blossom Copy: Cherry blossom petals fall at a rate of five centimeters per second, so how long does it take for two hearts to get closer, and in a snow-filled world, the delay time at the station seems to be separated by a century.
Takaki and Akari were children
Takaki transferred to an elementary school in Tokyo due to his parents' transfer. A year later, Akari also transferred to the same class. The two are sick and not good at sports, and prefer to stay alone in the library. Although they are still young, the two are still attracted to each other, and the existence of the other in their hearts gradually become irreplaceable. However, the world of the two is close to each other sadly due to Akari's transfer of schools again. Since then, Takaki has been struggling to adapt to the world without Akari. But in the summer of his first year of middle school, when Takaki receives a letter from Akari to him, his feelings suddenly resurface. They begin to communicate and again get happiness that can convey their hearts to each other.
sunset
That winter, Takaki had to transfer schools to a distant place. Separated further than they are now, they may never see each other again. So the two agreed in the letter that after school, Takaki would take a train to Tochigi Prefecture Iwako Station, where Akari was located, and the rendezvous time would be 7 p.m. On March 4, 1995, it began to rain coldly in the morning, and at noon the rain turned to snow. After school, Takaki took the train to Iwako station as agreed. Due to the delay and suspension of the train due to snow, Takaki missed the agreed time, but when he arrived at the waiting room of Iwanagi Station, he found Akari still waiting for him. Takaki eats refreshments made by Akira in the waiting room, then goes with Akiri to the cherry blossom tree mentioned in his letter and exchanges first kisses under the tree. That night, the two rested for the night at Tanabe's warehouse. The next day, Takaki said goodbye to Akari on the first train of the morning.
Astronaut: The rocket flew into the sky at a speed of five kilometers per hour, leaving only something that was like the smoke of the past, please don't be so gentle with me, your gentleness is the softness of my heart.
scenery
On the first day of her second year of high school, Hananagi fell in love with Takaki when she saw Takaki, who had transferred from Tokyo. Whether it is during class or after school, or even when taking a dog for a walk by the sea, Hanabi will look for him in the corner of the line of sight. In order to study hard in the same high school as Takaki, although he is qualified, he still does not have the courage to confess to him, and has always had a crush on Takaki. In 1999, in the summer of the third year of high school, not only was the wave of high school begun by the influence of my sister fall into a low tide, but also could not decide the way out after graduation. Although Hanabi's longing for Youra tree grows stronger, she only pretends to have met by chance and goes home together. With only half a year left in high school, Hanabi, who was anxious, made a decision: to be able to get up again while surfing the waves, and confess to Takaki. To this end, Hanabi practiced surfing hard and successfully stood up again while surfing. One day after school, Hanabi plans to confess to Takaki, but finds that Takaaki does not have her in her heart, and endures the confession, but still likes Takaki. After graduating from high school, Takaki was admitted to a university in Tokyo. When she leaves Tanegashima, Hanabi goes to the airport to drop off Takaki on a flight to Tokyo.
Five centimeters per second: In the depths of the snow-filled countryside, the lights in the distance of the city flicker sporadically in the night, leaving the footprints of young boys and girls on the white snow, and the two agree to watch the next season of cherry blossoms together.
Mingli
In Tokyo in 2007, Takaki was working as a systems engineer and had a busy life. After coming out of social work, the distinction between seasons and seasons, and between years and years became ambiguous, and years passed unconsciously. At the end of that year, Takaki and Risaki Mizuno, who had been dating for 3 years, broke up. In 2008, Takaki resigned before spring came. He felt that there were countless reasons for him to do so, and at the same time he felt that there was not a single reason for him to accept it. Soon the air slowly warmed up, and the cherry blossom season also visited Tokyo. On an idyllic weekday, after noon, Takaki put on a thin coat and walked down the street. When passing by the railway, the moment I passed by the oncoming woman, I suddenly remembered Akari, whom I had not seen for many years. Slowly turning around through the railway, the two men looked at each other, and at the moment when their hearts and memories were about to boil, they were blocked by the speeding Oda-Kyu Line train. When the tram passed, Takaki had already made a decision in his heart, and when the tram passed and found that the woman had already left, he smiled slightly and turned around.
Your tree
"Five centimeters per second" is a youth love series of films, the ending of Takaki missed his own green plum bamboo Ma Mingli, this type of ending mainly gives the audience a lot of reverie, everyone will always miss a lot of things in life, people often know how to cherish when they lose, everyone also has a time to miss love, the past things have become the most beautiful memories in the heart, this is not a failure, but a kind of intimate nostalgia, is the most precious memory. What Makoto Shinkai wants to express is that the feelings that were once innocent will not fade with the loss of time. Even if this feeling is not completed for various reasons, it will certainly be a beautiful memory in the heart. And the turtle shrinks in the scars of the past, does not dare to accept new happiness, will only make the heart more and more old, and finally slowly die.
end
The title of the film, "Five Centimeters per Second", interprets 5 centimeters per second as if this speed is not very fast, and can even be said to be very slow. People walk faster than it. But if this speed is maintained for 13 years.
It can be calculated through this formula
5CM/S * 13 years * 365 days * 24 hours * 60 minutes * 60 seconds = 20498.4 km.
20498.4 kilometers, this distance is exactly the distance around the earth half circle, that is, the distance between the South Pole and the North Pole. Of course, maybe this is just a coincidence, after some professional analysis, The last time Takaki and Akari met, to the fork in the road, it was exactly 13 years. Two hearts that once met, after 13 years, reached the furthest distance on Earth.