Yuuka Nanri

The girls of the Social Welfare Agency - human wreckage rebuilt with cybernetic implants and trained to kill. The oldest, Triela, pursues her targets with ferocious enthusiasm - especially Pinocchio, a boy raised as a terrorist assassin.

The feature film debut from Makoto Shinkai, the acclaimed director of "Weathering With You" and "Your Name.," is a haunting and beautiful story of friendship and loss, with stunning visuals and the emotional approach to science-fiction that would become the director's trademark. In an alternate post-war Japan, three teenagers become obsessed with a mysterious tower across the Union border, which reaches far into the sky. Hiroki and Takuya work on a makeshift airplane, which they promise their friend Sayuri they will use to visit the tower together someday, but she disappears before it is completed. Several years later, the tower suddenly activates, starting a phenomenon that threatens the world. And the young men now discover their long-lost friend Sayuri may hold the key to it all...

A.D. 2008. U.N. Military pilot, Shin Kudo, gets shot down and washes ashore on Mayan Island where he is rescued by Priestess Sara Nome, and her sister, Mao. Meanwhile, the Protoculture relic, Bird Human, has been detected on the island, bringing the war to the shores of this peaceful island.