Weathering With You

Fantasy · Drama · Slice of Life · Romance

This 2019 film turns Tokyo’s prolonged rain into tactile atmosphere, following a runaway teenager who meets a girl able to call brief patches of clear sky.

Synopsis
The Anime Lad

Teenager Hodaka leaves his island home for Tokyo and promptly discovers that the capital is wet and expensive, with no interest in his plans. Work at a small occult magazine gives him a foothold. Then he meets Hina, a girl able to call forth brief clear weather. The forecast has become a supernatural problem. Adult supervision remains mostly theoretical.

Super Eyepatch Fox

Hodaka arrives in Tokyo with little money and nowhere stable to land. The rain keeps falling. Work for an occult magazine brings him into contact with Hina, whose prayers can open a pocket of blue sky. The city remains crowded and costly around that impossible ability, grounding the fantasy in a teenager’s immediate need for work and shelter.

Gigguku

Tokyo is drowning in gray rain, and this movie makes every drop feel touchable. Then Hodaka meets Hina, who can bring sunlight through the clouds, and the sudden color is overwhelming. I LOVE how the supernatural premise grows out of practical teenage problems like finding work in an expensive city. A brief clearing looks enormous against all that wet concrete.

Father's Basement

The weather metaphor is painted in colors visible from orbit, and Hodaka’s judgment is questionable from the moment he reaches Tokyo. The film earns patience through its setting. Endless rain turns the city into a damp maze of temporary shelter and precarious work. Hina’s ability to summon clear skies gives that gray pressure a clean visual counterpoint without making the teenagers’ material problems disappear.

High school student Hodaka leaves his home on an isolated island and moves to Tokyo, but he immediately becomes broke. He lives his days in isolation, but finally finds a job as a writer for a shady occult magazine.

What defines it

This is an emotionally textured, visually lush romance-drama that uses magical realism to heighten ordinary moments. The city-feel is dense and atmospheric, with weather motifs shaping the film's emotional contour. Scenes balance quiet domestic beats and sweeping, cinematic set pieces tied to the supernatural element.

Recommendation shape

MoodDark
BrightBleak
PaceMeasured
UnhurriedPropulsive
StoryBalanced
DirectIntricate
ActionOccasional
SparseFrequent
Moral framingMixed
Clear-sidedMorally tangled
Cast focusShared
Tight focusBroad ensemble