Japan submitted Makoto Shinkai’s Weathering With You (Tenki no Ko) film for consideration in the Best International Feature Film category at the 92nd Academy Awards.
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) will host the North American premiere of Weathering With You as part of its Special Presentations category.
Weathering With You is also now the highest-grossing Japanese film so far this year.
Weathering With You has earned 10,073,344,500 yen (about US$94.59 million) by selling 7,519,350 tickets in 34 days, making it the #10 highest-earning Japanese films of all time.