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A Film About Teens Finding Love Amid Climate Apocalypse

Makoto Shinkai’s bold and charming <em>Weathering With You </em>is set in a world ending so gradually, people barely notice it anymore.
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As Earth’s climate continues to , a peculiar little subgenre of science fiction, the environmental allegory, is due for a cinematic resurgence. Makoto Shinkai’s is a tale of awkward teenagers finding each other and falling in love amid all sorts of trials and tribulations—a specialty for the filmmaker, whose smash hit made him one of Japan’s leading voices in animation. But what makes it truly fascinating is the story in the

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