5 Centimeters per Second

The film tracks two childhood sweethearts whose letters outpace the speed of trains. Over seventeen years their lives converge and scatter without collision. It settles for being the sort of memory you reread rather than relive.

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Yoshiyuki Okuyama directed 5 Centimeters per Second in 2025. See Yoshiyuki Okuyama's full filmography, where to start with Yoshiyuki Okuyama, or where to go after you've seen everything by Yoshiyuki Okuyama.

5 Centimeters per Second was released in 2025 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 121 minutes.