The editions Pix’n Love have just published a book dedicated to Makoto ShinkaiJapanese animation director who no longer needs to be introduced with successes such as 5cm per Second, Garden of Words, Your Name. or even Suzume.
Written by Pierre-William Fregonese et Madoka Serizawa, Makoto Shinkai – Ordinary Life is a 176-page work which offers a look back at the incredible story of one of the most influential Japanese directors of the last twenty years.
L’classic edition is available in bookstores at the price of 24,90€while a collector’s edition limited to 500 copies is offered exclusively on the publisher’s website at the price of 34,90€. The latter contains the book in hard cardboard cover, an exclusive cardboard sleeve with selective varnish, and a numbered certificate of authenticity.
Presentation :
Colors of the sky at sunset, an urban garden in the downpour, people passing each other along a staircase in Tokyo, or even a comet that bursts through the screen to lodge itself in the viewer’s retina. Behind these visions which shape contemporary imaginations, there is a director apart, as well known as little known: Makoto Shinkai, a true painter of the background, who sculpts landscapes as one writes destinies.
To encounter his works, whether visual or written, it was necessary to go through a separate work. Written by a French author and a Japanese author, rich in rare sources, but also analyses, fictions and memories, this book is a wandering between views and experiences. The different chapters are so many fragments that make up a world, a panorama whose behind the scenes reveals today’s Japan in all its beauty and its tragedies, half-awakened ruins and a breath that unites the past with the present.
In these pages are beings who are united by a contract or “chigiri”, loves which are based on the subtleties of the Japanese language, large rooms whose dragons painted on the ceilings have been observing you for centuries, the atmospheres of a summer festival where the twilight never ends, the ocean which responds to the sky when the rain draws the waves, and then nuances, green, blue, pink-purple, gray, and above all the shine. There is also the triple disaster that traumatized the Archipelago in 2011, and the strength of Japanese women who are helping it recover. In short, there is everything Shinkai, and even more.
