The ying and yang doesn't end there. The story is set between the beautiful mountainous Nagano region where Shinkai grew up and Tokyo's hyper modern megapolis.
It also plays on the tension of teenagers desperate to quit their small towns for the big city yet who are still entranced by the beauty of age-old Japanese traditions.
"It is a film about memory, but also about losing memories," said Shinkai, who adapted the story from his own novel. "It's about individual memory and collective memory, the forgetting of a certain morality and sense of tradition."
While he is resigned to the fact that the comparison with Miyazaki will haunt him forever, he insisted that they are very different.
To prove it he commissioned the Japanese J-rock group Radwimps - whose music you could see giving the old master tinnitus - to do the soundtrack.
Shinkai is also at pains to point out that although "the chemistry between Ando" and his other lead artist Masayoshi Tanaka was key to the film's success, his team is no reboot of Miyazaki's famous Studio Ghibli.
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