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A Silent Voice: The Movie
映画 聲の形
2016 · Film · 129 min
Directed by Naoko Yamada
Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya do not speak to each other again... until an older, wiser Shouya, tormented by his past behaviour, decides he must see Shouko once more. He wants to atone for his sins, but is it already too late...?
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"A Silent Voice" is the best anime film of the 2010s in my opinion and comes closer to matching Miyazaki than anything else I've seen, in terms of the power of storytelling. Miyazaki is still better, but it's extremely good.
I also enjoyed "Wolf Children" a lot. As others have said, "Your Name" is stellar too, and "5cm/sec" is pretty damn excellent.
Disappointed but not surprised to see nobody mentioned "A Silent Voice."
Most of the others here are movies I love too, but I think A Silent Voice is a separate category. Many of the others are fantasy, this is a high school drama about a bullied deaf girl and relationships between people. When I heard that, I first thought it didn't really sound like something that would interest me, but it is just an amazing story.