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Live-Action Film Director Yoshiyuki Okuyama on Adapting Makoto Shinkai's Classic 5 Centimeters Per S

I watched 5 cm/s many years ago, and I mostly remember it leaving me feeling...cold, which seems to put me in a decided minority. I could not relate in the slightest to the idea of a grown adult still being so hung up on an elementary-school crush that he was letting it sabotage his relationships throughout the rest of his life. (I mean seriously, buddy.) The only character I really liked was Kanae in the second part, and I was extremely frustrated that she didn't get so much as a passing mention in the final part. I wonder how I'd feel about it now if I rewatched it this long after the fact, and it's interesting to think about how a more expanded treatment of the material like this adaptation might change things.