Crunchyroll is announcing today that it has acquired the worldwide distribution rights (excluding Asia, but including India) for Makoto Shinkai's next feature film, with Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures Entertainment to co-distribute. Additional details about Shinkai's next movie, including the title, release date and further story information, were not revealed at the time of the announcement. Shinkai's previous theatrical directorial works include The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004), 5 Centimeters Per Second (2007), Children Who Chase Lost Voices (2011), The Garden of Words (2013), Your Name (2016), Weathering With You (2019) and Suzume (2022). Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures Entertainment previously partnered on the worldwide release of Suzume in 2023. Crunchyroll currently streams Shinkai's latest film, and describes the story: When high schooler Suzume Iwato runs into mysterious and devastatingly handsome out-of-towner Souta, her whole world changes. Intrigued with what he’s up to, she discovers an abandoned building with a mysterious door holding a dark supernatural force inside it. To her surprise, these mystical entrances are opening across Japan, in more of its long-forgotten regions. Able to see the supernatural forces that others can’t, she teams up with Souta to save Japan by finding the doors and closing them.