The latest animated feature from director Makoto Shinkai, named "Kotonoha no Niwa" (the garden of words), will go on general release in the first half of 2013. The statement described the forthcoming feature as a romance set in a modern society. It discussed Shinkai's feelings for "Yamato kotoba," or authentically Japanese words.
The description's tagline is: "A story of 'lonely sadness' set in a time when 'love' was yet to be introduced." This refers to the notion that romantic love is a foreign idea introduced in Japan only in modern times. Traditionally, the word "love" was written as "lonely sadness" or yearning in ancient Japan.
About the famous feet scene, Shinkai comments that they had to make that scene lewd for it to work. He explains that allowing other people to touch one's bare feet is a very intimate ("priceless") act, and that for a 15 year old kid this is the first time touching someone else's feet (except family members). Risa mentions how beautiful the feet are, and how carefully Takao handles them, as though he is touching a mystery.
Shinkai mentions again how he thinks Yukino is cruel, letting Takao touch her feet even though she has yet to decide whether she likes him or not. Nevertheless, Shinkai says he wanted to portray the feelings between them as beautiful, and that the scene needed to have some seductiveness but make it a beautiful and precious thing, and that he thinks Kashiwa's piano piece really helped that.
Jan 14 2013, 01:36 PM, updated 13y ago
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