Suzume no Tojimari

 

 

Suzume (すずめの戸締まり, Suzume no Tojimari) is the seventh feature film produced by Makoto Shinkai. The Japanese title was revealed on December 15, 2021. The film was released on November 11, 2022

Suzume Iwato is a 17-year-old high school girl, who lives with her aunt in a town in the region of Kyushu. One morning she suddenly woke up after having a dream of her as a child in a field with a bright sky full of stars with a female figure in front of her who she tries to recall by calling her "Mom". On her way to school she meets a young man who asks her if there were any ruins with a door nearby and she points out an old abandoned spa in the mountains. After meeting some of her friends, she becomes curious and decides to try to reach the yound man by reaching the abandoned spa. There she finds a door which she decides to open which made her see the same field and sky of her dreams. She trips over a cat statue on the floor, which turns into a real cat and flees. Frightened, Suzume rushes back to school. During lunch, Suzume notices a huge column of smoke, emerging from the location where the abandoned spa is located, and after trying to get her friends' attention she noticed that they couldn't see the huge column. She rushes back to the abandoned spa and finds the man from earlier, who is struggling to close the door. Suzume helps him, and they manage to close the door. Due to the column of smoke falling an earthquake hits a nearby area.

Suzume takes the man to her home, where he introduces himself as Souta Munakata, explaining he is a "Closer" and he must locate and lock specific doors in abandoned places throughout Japan, to prevent a powerful "worm" from being released and causing earthquakes. As they talk, the cat from the spa appears and, after receiving food from Suzume he speaks to her leaving her stunned, the cat, called Daijing then turns Souta into the chair he was sitting on. Souta, now a small, three-legged chair, chases the cat onto a ferry headed for Ehime, with Suzume following along. The cat leaps onto another ship as Souta tells Suzume that the cat is a "keystone", and that the worm was released after Suzume accidently removed the keystone from near the door.

The following morning they reached Ehime and noticed several posts on the internet about the cat from locals, in an attempt to find it they met a girl, Chika Amabe, who had just accidently dropped boxes of oranges from her scooter, Suzume helped Chika to recover the load and talked for a while with Chika but, upon seeing another worm, she had Chika accompany her to a nearby abandoned school where Souta taught her to close the door with a special key avoiding the advent of another earthquake. They stay at Chika's Inn for the night where Suzume helps her friend with the cleaning and then goes to bed. The next morning they set off again after noticing that Daijin was crossing a bridge on his way to Kobe. They stopped at a bus stop after it started raining and received a ride from Rumi Ninomiya who drove them to Kobe, then asked Suzume if she could babysit her children for her. After entertaining the two children Suzume helped with the bar but then had to run away as soon as she noticed Daijin inside the bar who took her to an abandoned amusement park where another door opened. They manage to lock the door, and the worm disappears. Souta explains that the portal within the door leads to the Ever-After, a place where souls go after death.

EAPP ACTIVITY | 11 HUMSS CASTILLO

SUBMITTED BY: Margarette Danielle Mariano 

SUBMITTED TO: Mr. Bryan Ecija

                              Subject teacher