Seventeen-year-old Suzume Iwato joins a young door-closer named Souta, who is turned into a three-legged chair partway through their journey, on a trip across Japan sealing doors that release a giant, earthquake-triggering worm. The third film in Makoto Shinkai's disaster trilogy, following Your Name and Weathering with You, draws directly on the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.
Hodaka, a runaway sixteen-year-old scraping by in Tokyo, teams up with Hina, an orphaned girl who can part the rain with a prayer, to sell her ability as a paid service during an unusually long, disaster-scale downpour. Shinkai's follow-up to Your Name, again scored by Radwimps, pushes his interest in weather and disaster further than its predecessor by making the couple's happiness and the city's survival mutually exclusive, and then letting a teenager choose.
A Tokyo boy and a rural girl who have never met begin waking up in each other's bodies, building a friendship across the swap before a hidden twist reveals the stakes are far higher than a shared inconvenience. Makoto Shinkai wrote, directed, shot and edited the film after visiting a village destroyed by the 2011 tsunami, and Your Name became the first entry in what critics now call his disaster trilogy, and briefly the highest-grossing Japanese film ever made.