5 Centimeters per Second

Five Centimeters per Second — that’s the speed at which a cherry blossom petal falls. Three stories about first love, beauty, and the relentlessness of everyday life. A film about how a perfect moment cannot be stopped, because its beauty lies precisely in the fact that it passes. No vow can hold back the hands of the clock—or make them move faster. Each of the film’s three chapters focuses on this inevitability, on the rhythm of life, which is different for every age and state of being.

Some of the landscape and everyday scenes in the film were created based on photographs of real locations in Japan.

🏆 Asia Pacific Screen Awards — Best Animated Feature Film. Grand Prize at the Future Film Festival.