The Place Promised in Our Early Days
Against all odds, a promise will be kept.
In a post-war alternative timeline, Japan is divided into the North, controlled by the Union, and the South, controlled by the United States. A mysterious high tower rises within the borders of the Union. Three high school students promise to cross the border with a self-built airplane and unravel the secret of the tower.
- Year: 2004
- Country: Japan
- Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Science Fiction
- Studio: CoMix Wave Films
- Keyword: airplane, violin, adult animation, alternate timeline, foreign occupation, anime, 1990s, ambiguous
- Director: Makoto Shinkai
- Cast: Hidetaka Yoshioka, Masato Hagiwara, Yuuka Nanri, Unsho Ishizuka, Kazuhiko Inoue, Risa Mizuno