# Cross Road (2014)

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**Original title**: *クロスロード*
**Runtime**: 2 min
**Genres**: Animation
**Directed by**: Makoto Shinkai
**Written by**: Makoto Shinkai
**Starring**: Ayane Sakura, Kensho Ono, Masahiko Tanaka

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A summer camp romance meets correspondence-course blues. Two high-school seniors, one from a textbookless island and one from Tokyo’s neon grind, sign up for the same distance-learning program and accidentally sync their schedules. The correspondence itself carries them.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, tender

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