5 cm Per Second
- Episode 1 -
Eh...
Say 5 cm per second.
What?
The speed of falling cherry, 5 cm per second.
Oh yeah?
Akari knows something like that, huh.
It feels like snow, huh?
I see, yes.
Hey!
Wait!
Akari!
Takaki!
Hopefully next year we can see the cherry blossom together again, huh!
- Sakura Story -
Dear Takaki Tono, we haven't exchanged news for a long time Although summer is also hot here,
It tastes better than Tokyo.
But I guess now I also like Tokyo's humid summer.
And the asphalt that is about to melt, a sparkling skyscraper,
and cold air conditioning in malls and trains.
Last time we met during the elementary graduation ceremony,
it's been half a year.
Takaki,
do you still remember me?
Dear Takaki,
Thank you! I am happy to get your reply.
It's autumn, huh. Here the leaves are reddish beautifully.
Two days ago I pulled out a sweater.
Takaki!
Yes?
What is that? Love letter?
No, how come!
- Sorry, I'm asking for your help. - It's okay, it's almost done.
Thank you! Said you want to move?
Yes, at the end of this semester.
- Where? - Kagoshima. Follow my parents.
So quiet, please...
Now the extracurricular starts in the morning, so I wrote this letter on the train.
Anyway, I cut my hair.
I cut short, my ears visible. If you meet, maybe you hang out.
Mama comes home.
Hello, Mama!
You certainly also changed a little.
Dear Takaki, How are you doing on a cold day like this?
Here the snow has fallen several times,
far away, huh.
You can't easily take the train if you want to meet you.
I'm a little sad.
But the important thing is you are healthy, Takaki!
Dear Takaki,
I'm so glad we will meet March 4th.
A year since we last met,
I feel excited.
There is a large cherry tree near the house Spring time,
maybe the interest also falls 5 cm per second.
I want to miss spring
with Takaki again
- March 4 plan -
- Meet Akari at 19.00 -
Takaki!
Let's go to extracurricular activities!
OK.
Uh, I can't go to extracurricular today.
Ready to move?
Yes. Forgive me.
Very well you want to come to my place.
But it's far, so be careful, huh.
I'll wait for you at the station at 7
It has been snowing since noon on the day of the meeting with Akari.
Takaki, look!
Cats! That's Chobi.
He is always here, huh.
But now alone.
Where's Mimi? Lonely, please...
How is the book?
Good. I read evolution overnight for 4 billion years!
Which one?
Anomalocaris, the weird shrimp.
- Cambrian Period! - Cambrian Period!
I like the genus Hallucigenia. This is it!
Similar!
Which do you like?
Opabinia.
Who has 5 eyes, right?
Akari and I have many similarities.
A year after I moved to Tokyo
Akari entered the same class.
Because we are small and sick,
we prefer in the library rather than in the field.
We also become good friends.
Classmates tease us too.
But we don't worry about it because of our friendship.
- Akari and Takaki going out -
We will enter the same junior high school
and together forever.
As soon as I thought, for some reason.
Shinjuku, the last station
Be careful when going down.
This is my first time to Shinjuku alone.
All the trains after this have never been taken.
I feel excited.
I'll meet Akari...
How is that guy?
Who?
Yang from Nishi-sho Middle School.
She's tacky, right?
We will arrive at Musashi Urawa Station.
This train will stop for 4 minutes to wait for the express train.
Passengers to Yonohonmachi and Omiya are welcome to move the platform.
Hello, this is Akari Shinohara
Can you talk to Takaki?
From Akari.
Move school?
You have been accepted at Nishi Middle School, right?
I was registered at the Middle School in Tochigi...
Sorry.
Akari doesn't need to apologize.
I already said I wanted to stay with Auntie in Katsushika, Tokyo,
but it can't be because it's still small...
I understand.
It's okay.
Never mind.
Sorry...
I press the receiver firmly until my ear hurts.
I can feel the pain of Akari but it can't be helped.
Stations are full of passengers who return from work.
The shoes are wet with snow.
Cold air
with a typical city smell on a snowy day.
Announcement... Train destination Oyama and Utsunomiya
8 minutes late due to snow. Please allow passengers to wait.
Until that moment it didn't think about the possibility
the train is delayed.
Instantly anxious attacks.
The train is 10 minutes late because of snow.
After Omiya Station
very few buildings are visible.
Next station, Kuki.
We apologize for this delay.
To schedule, the train will stop for 10 minutes.
We apologize for this delay. Please wait a little longer
Sorry.
To schedule, the train will stop for 10 minutes...
Nogi Station
For setting a schedule, the train will pause. Please be advised.
Please be patient waiting.
The distance between stations is so far,
and the train stops so long at each station.
- Nogi -
- Oyama -
- Iwafune -
The fierce snow outside the window which I've never seen,
time that is slow, tumultuous stomach,
everything makes me more nervous.
The appointment time has passed,
Of course Akari starts to worry.
- For Akari -
That day, when Akari called,
of course he is wrapped in anxiety more than I feel.
But I'm not entertaining him...
it's really embarrassing.
We have learned kindness from you, O teacher...
Alright,
goodbye.
I received the first letter from Akari 6 months later.
Summer when I was in grade 1 in junior high school.
I remember everything he wrote.
I need two weeks to this day
to write a letter to Akari.
Many things I want to say
and I told Akari.
Thank you for your understanding.
The train to go to Utsunomiya will depart.
Oyama Station.
Tohoku Shinkansen passengers are welcome to move here.
- Meet Akari at 19.00 -
Attention, attention. Ryomo train is late because of snow.
What's important,
to the station where Akari is waiting.
Train to Ashikaga / Maebashi for Takasaki to arrive on line 8.
For your safety, please stand behind the white line.
The train stopped temporarily because of snow.
Sorry, we can't confirm yet when the train will operate again We reset.
The train stopped temporarily because of snow. It is uncertain when the train will run.
Dear Takaki, how are you?
Now the extracurricular starts in the morning, so I wrote this letter on the train.
From the letter always imagined Akari who is alone.
Finally that time
the train stops 2 hours in a quiet place.
1 minute feels so long.
Time feels heavy with cunning who slowly crawled me.
I gritted my teeth so you don't cry. That's all I can do.
Akari...
Never mind,
come back...
go home...
- Iwafune -
Train for Ashikaga / Maebashi for Takasaki to arrive on line 3.
The train stopped temporarily because of snow.
Akari...
Delicious...
Oh yes? Regular roasted tea, how come.
Burning tea? For the first time.
It's impossible, you have to drink!
Period?
Definitely!
Anyway, I made this, but I'm not sure about the taste.
Let's eat.
Thank you.
I'm very hungry.
How is it?
The best of all I've ever eaten!
You're exaggerating...
Really!
It's because you're hungry.
How come, huh?
Definitely.
I want it too, ah!
Move soon, yeah...
Yes, next week.
To Kagoshima, yeah...
Far away!
Yes.
Tochigi is also far away, anyway.
You can't go home now.
Close soon. There are no more trains.
Good.
Be careful, the snow is thick.
- Yes! - Yes!
Is the tree visible?
Which tree did you write in the letter?
Yes, cherry trees.
Eh...
It feels like snow, huh?
Yes.
At that time...
I have come to understand about immortality, heart and soul.
It seems we have shared everything for 13 years.
But next time...
I feel very sad.
Because I don't know
how to behave
for the soul and warmth of Akari.
I became aware of that we couldn't continue together.
Life burden that is too heavy and erratic time lies before us.
But,
not long after that the anxiety slowly evaporated.
All that's left is Akari's soft lips.
That night...
We spent time in a small cottage on the edge of the field.
Long chat, wrapped in an old blanket
until I fall asleep.
Early in the morning I take the train,
then parted ways with Akari.
Eh...
Takaki...
I'm sure you're fine. Certainly!
Thank you.
Akari, take good care of yourself.
I'll send a letter! And call you!
I didn't say that I lost the letter for Akari.
"For Takaki Tono" Before and after the kiss...
everything in the world is changing.
I really want to protect it.
That's all I keep thinking about while looking out the window.
- Episode 2 -
- Spokesman -
- Kanae, want to go after school? - Yes. What about brother
- Yes. But don't forget to study. - Ready!
OK!
Morning!
Morning, Takaki. Come fast, huh!
You too, Kanae. From the beach, right?
Yes.
You are training hard, huh.
Not really, really.
See you later, huh!
Yes.
It's time to make a decision.
Submit at the latest Monday.
Talk carefully with your family.
- Survey of Desires After Graduation -
Said Sasaki wants to register university in Tokyo.
I might go to the academy in Kumamoto.
How about that?
Eh...
Looking for work?
Hmm...
You don't think of anything, huh.
Except for Takaki Tono.
He must have a girlfriend in Tokyo!
Don't do that, ah!
Can't?
Why, huh?
Don't worry too much, later.
Brother is optimistic, anyway.
No hurry.
At this rate, until I graduate I can't express my feelings.
Thank you, Sis.
I'll take you home.
No need. I ride a motorcycle.
Kanae, go home now?
Yes. You too, Takaki?
Yes.
Come home together, okay?
If I have a tail like a dog
my tail must be wagging, can't hide the pleasure.
Ah the relief, fortunately I'm not a dog uh, stupid to think so.
What's important,
I'm happy to be able to go home with Takaki.
Takaki looks different from the beginning compared to other boys.
Takaki Tono.
I often move with my parents, but I'm not used to it here.
I fell in love with him in grade 2 and wanted to go to the same high school.
I studied hard to be accepted.
Every time I look at Takaki I like him even more.
Every day feels painful,
but every time I meet him I'm happy.
I can't do anything.
Again, Takaki?
This is delicious.
You're always serious, yes, Kanae.
Yes!
First, yes.
Yes.
I bought this.
90 yen.
This.
Thank you.
Buy what?
At first confused, finally bought yogurt.
Wow!
The speed is 5 km per hour.
To the Minamitane Launch Center.
Oh.
This year there will be another launch.
Yes, he said, it reached the middle of the solar system.
It took years.
Try giving Kanae a suggestion about her future. He is confused.
Don't worry. He is not a child.
I also like that first...
Kabu, Takaki also said he didn't know.
Same with me.
That must be...
a less trip from the shadow of people.
Deeply dividing darkness only meets hydrogen atoms, sometimes.
Continue to approach the deep canyon, believe there are world secrets.
To what extent do we want to go?
To what extent can we go?
"My dream. Walk on another planet with the same woman. His face is invisible."
- Save message? -
- No -
Since when, I wrote a message without the recipient's address...
Kanae, have you decided plan after graduation?
Still don't understand. But it's okay, I've decided!
Doing what I can one by one. Go ahead!
Some hurricanes have hit since that day.
The air slowly feels cold.
The wind that shakes the sugar cane gets cooler
the sky looks tall
and streaks of cloud smoothing.
A school friend riding a motorcycle starts wearing a jacket.
I surf after half a year
with the rest of summer warmth in mid-October.
The weather forecast is clear tonight. The launch plan continues.
Yamada expresses his love to Sasaki.
I thought it was!
Kanae, looks like you look happy!
What's wrong with Takaki?
- Right! - Correct!
Today, I will also
expresses love to Takaki.
If I don't talk today
I won't dare to talk forever.
Kanae.
Takaki.
Going home?
Yes.
Gitu, huh.
Come home together, let's go!
Kanae, have you decided?
Mmm...
Why?
Don't...
Eh?
No.
Sorry, it's okay.
Broken?
Something is strange.
Broken, huh?
Maybe the foam is dead. Is this from your sister?
Yes, from brother.
- Can gas not work? - Maybe.
Just leave here, then ask the house to take it.
Let's go home!
I can walk alone! Takaki goes home first.
It's okay, it's close.
I also want to walk.
Takaki.
Please...
Why?
Sorry, nothing.
Sorry...
Kanae.
Please...
Don't be nice to me...
As hard as possible to reach the sky
launching such an object
looking at something far away...
I understand why Takaki is different from other children.
At the same time,
I'm really aware of that he never saw me.
That's why I can't express my feelings that day.
She's good,
very good.
But,
he's always
see something behind me. Something very far away.
My desire to be with Takaki will not come true.
However,
I will still like it
tomorrow, the day after, until whenever, I will love him.
I just imagined myself
while crying, then fell asleep.
- Episode 3 -
If I turn around
he will also turn around.
Last Chuo-Sobu Train Tokyo destination arrived.
Why not stay until the new year?
I have a lot to prepare.
Cook the good for him.
Yes.
Call if there's anything, Akari.
Don't worry. Next month we will meet again at the wedding.
It's cold, hurry home.
Last night I dreamed about the past.
When I was and he was a child.
It must be because of the letter I found yesterday.
- Inbox -
- How are you, Takaki? Long time no see you . Although very doubtful,
I have something to say to you. -
- Message sent -
Mizuno-san...
Yes?
A meeting can begin?
Good.
I only live life, but sadness keeps piling up.
On the sheets that are kujemur, on a toothbrush in the sink,
and on my cellphone.
"Even now I still love you,"
once the contents of the female SMS I searched for 3 years.
"But, even though we have exchanged 1000 messages,
our hearts may only approach 1 cm."
For the past few years I just want to go forward
reach out for what isn't stuck, without knowing what I'm really looking for and from which obsessive feeling.
I keep immersing myself in work.
Next time we will see sakura together again,
me and him, without a doubt
think so.
Whenever, wherever, I look for your figure Dikon, in a small alley window
Even though I know you're not there
If my wishes come true, I'll be right by your side There's nothing I can't do
'I have taken all the risks to hold you
I just want to divert loneliness, should be with anyone The night is so bright with stars, I can't lie to myself
Once again O season, don't change Once again When we joke
Whenever, wherever, I look for your figure At a crossroads, in a dream
Even though I know you're not there
If there is a miracle, I will show you right away New morning, myself then
The words "I love you" unspoken.
Summer retreat flashes
A sudden disappearance
Whenever, wherever, I look for your figure Morning atmosphere at Sakuragi-cho
Even though I know you're not there
If my wishes come true, I'll be right by your side There's nothing I can't do
'I take all the risks to hug you