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5 Centimeters Per Second

2007 · Animation · Makoto Shinkai · 1h 3m

Three linked stories about a boy and a girl who were close as children and keep being moved to different parts of Japan. Slow and quiet, and mostly about distance.

  • Strongly character-driven
  • Clearly slow

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