Film guide
- Road
- Fantasy
- Coming-of-age
- Adventure
- Drama
- Stars
- Nichole Sakura · Josh Keaton · Eri Fukatsu
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Shinkai’s road movie, and the one with the talking cat
Suzume trades Your Name’s body-swap premise for a road trip, and the change in structure is the whole point. Suzume, a high schooler in Kyushu, meets a stranger looking for an old door and ends up chasing him – and a small, unbothered cat named Daijin – across Japan as they try to keep a string of supernatural doors shut before whatever’s behind them gets out. It is Shinkai’s most overt disaster movie yet: each door Suzume has to close is tied, unmistakably, to a real place where something terrible once happened, and the film is explicit that it’s reckoning with the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in a way his earlier films approached more obliquely.
Daijin is the reason this film has the fanbase it does. The cat shows up early, says almost nothing, and does something to one of the main characters that reframes the whole back half of the trip – it’s a better hook unspoiled, but expect to see this cat on a lot of merchandise once you know why. the film’s production record has the full voice cast and release history, including Crunchyroll’s US theatrical run in spring 2023, several months behind the Japanese release.
You do not need Your Name first. Suzume isn’t a sequel and doesn’t reference it; what carries over is Shinkai’s visual signature and his interest in what a disaster does to the people who survive it, not a story. If you haven’t seen either, our Your Name guide covers the one that made his name internationally, and either is a fine place to start.
Suzume cast 10
- Nichole SakuraSuzume Iwato
Josh KeatonSouta Munakata
Eri FukatsuTamaki Iwato
Roger Craig SmithMinoru Okabe
Amanda C. MillerRumi Ninomiya- Rosalie ChiangChika Amabe
Kana HanazawaTsubame Iwato
Cam ClarkeHitsujirō Munakata- Joe ZiejaTomoya Serizawa
Mela LeeMiki
- Director
- Makoto Shinkai
- Writer
- Makoto Shinkai
- Music
- Radwimps, Kazuma Jinnouchi
- Studios
- CoMix Wave Films
Photos via Wikimedia Commons. Josh Keaton: John Manard, CC BY-SA 4.0; Eri Fukatsu: Dick Thomas Johnson, CC BY 2.0; Roger Craig Smith: Super Festivals from Ft. Lauderdale, USA, CC BY 2.0; Amanda C. Miller: Jake Guild, CC BY 2.0; Kana Hanazawa: Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0; Cam Clarke: 5of7, CC BY-SA 2.0; Mela Lee: Madelynnelyse1, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Where can I watch Suzume?
On Netflix in the US with a subscription, checked October 29, 2026.
When did Suzume come out?
November 11, 2022, in Japan. It opened in US theaters via Crunchyroll on April 14, 2023, several months later, before arriving on streaming.
How long is Suzume?
122 minutes.
Do I need to watch Your Name before Suzume?
No. Suzume is not a sequel. It’s writer-director Makoto Shinkai’s next film after Your Name, sharing his visual style and an interest in disaster and connection, but a new story with new characters.
