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Name: A Silent Voice: The Movie
Director: Naoko Yamada
Genre: animation, drama, romance
Released: 2016
Duration: 2 h 9 min
Rating: 8.2

A Silent Voice: The Movie has an iRankMovies score of 81.3/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

A Silent Voice: The Movie (2016)

映画聲の形

Sometimes the answer is as simple as learning to listen.

Release:2016

Runtime:2h 9m

Country:Japan

Director:Naoko Yamada

Language:Japanese

Genre

AnimationDramaRomance

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Keywords

High School friendship SuicideSuicide AttemptDeafBullying Coming Of Age School

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A Silent Voice: The Movie rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb8.2/10· 137K votes

Metacritic78%

TMDb8.4/10· 4K votes

With 8.2/10 on IMDb and 78/100 on Metacritic, this film is well-rated across multiple platforms.

About A Silent Voice: The Movie

Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya do not speak to each other again... until an older, wiser Shouya, tormented by his past behaviour, decides he must see Shouko once more. He wants to atone for his sins, but is it already too late...?

Cast of A Silent Voice: The Movie

Miyu Irino
as Shouya Ishida (voice)
Saori Hayami
as Shouko Nishimiya (voice)
Aoi Yuuki
as Yuzuru Nishimiya (voice)
Kensho Ono
as Tomohiro Nagatsuka (voice)
Yuki Kaneko
as Naoka Ueno (voice)
Yui Ishikawa
as Miyoko Sahara (voice)
Megumi Han
as Miki Kawai (voice)
Toshiyuki Toyonaga
as Satoshi Mashiba (voice)
Mayu Matsuoka
as Shouya Ishida as an Elementary School Boy (voice)
Sachiko Kojima
as Kazuki Shimada as an Elementary School Boy (voice)
Hana Takeda
as Keisuke Hirose as an Elementary School Boy (voice)
Fuminori Komatsu
as Takeuchi-sensei (voice)

A Silent Voice: The Movie facts

Original title: 映画聲の形
Box office: $30.8M

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Audience opinions

What the audience liked

•Authentic portrayal of deaf experience grounds narrative in genuine human authenticity
•Animation beautifully captures internal emotional states through visual storytelling craft
•Redemption arc demonstrates complexity of guilt, forgiveness, and personal growth journeys

What the audience disliked

•Length occasionally tests patience during quieter introspective character development sequences
•Emotional climax risks sentimentality though generally manages restraint effectively