#A silent voice show movie

Shōya helps Shōko reconnect with Miyoko Sahara, a kind classmate who genuinely befriended Shōko and is currently in the same school as Naoka Ueno, who also bullied Shōko and weasels back into Shōya's life. When Yuzuru runs away from home, Shōya offers to let her stay at his house, and the two reconcile. Shōya would try to meet up with Shōko to help her feed koi in the river much to the ire of her younger sister Yuzuru, who takes advantage of Shōya illegally jumping into the river to retrieve Shōko's notebook to take a photo of the incident and post it online to have him suspended from school. At that time, he is also befriended by Tomohiro Nagatsuka, a similar friendless classmate who feels indebted to Shōya for saving him from a bully. Shōya reconciles with Shōko when returning her notebook at the sign language center she is attending, realizing she is still lonely due to her shyness. But he decides to first to make amends with those he has wronged before ending his life. His reputation as a bully following him through middle school, Shōya becomes a depressed loner in high school who eventually believes suicide is his only absolution. Shōya blames Shōko when she tries to help him and they get into a physical altercation, the latter being subsequently transferred to another school with Shōya keeping her notebook. When word of the bullying reaches the principal, Shōya is framed as the sole perpetrator by his friends. While nominated for the Japan Academy Film Prize for Excellent Animation of the Year, as well the Mainichi Film Award for Best Animation Film, it lost to In This Corner of the World and Your Name, respectively.Īn elementary school student named Shōya Ishida and his friends bully Shōko Nishimiya, a transfer student who was born deaf.

#A silent voice show movie

The film won the Japanese Movie Critics Awards for Best Animated Feature Film. It has grossed over $31.6 million worldwide. The film received highly positive reviews from critics, with praise going to the direction, animation, and the psychological complexity of the characters. It was released in Japan on September 17, 2016, and worldwide between February and June 2017. The film premiered at Tokyo on August 24, 2016. It follows the story of a former bully turned social outcast, who decides to reconnect and befriend the deaf girl he had bullied years prior.

The film covers elements of coming of age and psychological drama, dealing with themes of bullying, disability, forgiveness, mental health, suicide, and friendship of opposite sexes. Miyu Irino and Saori Hayami signed on as voice casting in May 2016 and the theatrical release poster and official trailer were released in July 2016. Plans for an animated film adaptation were announced back in November 2014, Kyoto Animation was confirmed to produce the film in November 2015. The film was produced by Kyoto Animation, directed by Naoko Yamada and written by Reiko Yoshida, featuring character designs by Futoshi Nishiya and music by Kensuke Ushio. 'The Shape of Voice Film') is a 2016 Japanese animated drama film, based on the manga of the same name by Yoshitoki Ōima. A Silent Voice ( Japanese: 映画聲の形, Hepburn: Eiga Koe no Katachi, lit.