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The Place Promised in Our Early Days
2004
· Movie
· 90 min
B
MEANRANK
70/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #361
- IMDb #358
- Rotten Tomatoes #271
- Letterboxd #484
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #223
- Kinopoisk #202
+1 more
- AlloCiné #430
Every rating
63–79
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Letterboxd on 63, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 79.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →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.
Details
- Directors
- Makoto Shinkai, Yoshio Suzuki
- Writer
- Makoto Shinkai
- Studio
- CoMix Wave Films
- Released
- 20 November 2004
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Box office
- $44.5K
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Awards
1 win & 1 nomination total
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