“Makoto Shinkai Exhibit –Makoto Shinkai’s World Seen Through the Feature Films– ” China / Beijing

Venue: Japan Foundation Beijing Japanese Culture Center
Dates: March 7, 2015 ~ March 29

The first in a series of exhibits to make their rounds throughout China over three years, sponsored by the Japan Foundation. It featured The Place Promised in Our Early Days, 5 Centimeters Per Second, Children Who Chase Lost Voices and The Garden of Words with exhibits showing the entire production process through storyboards, character designs, animation layouts and keyframe copies, and theatrical posters. Visitors were able to take commemorative photographs in the works’ background art and view screenings of the works’ making-of documentaries as well as director and cast interviews.