• Release Date:
  July 12th, 2005
• Genre:
  Drama
• Format:
  DVD
• Disc Aspect Ratio:
  • 1.78:1 (Alternate Wide Screen)
• MPAA Rating:
  TVPG Parental Guidance Suggested
• Runtime:
  1 hour 30 minutes
• Studio:
  A.D.V. Films
• UPC:
  702727127724
• Number of Discs:
  1
• Disc Sides:
  1
• Production Year:
  2005

The anime feature The Place Promised in Our Early Days (AKA Kumo No Muko, Yakusoku No Bashu) opens with an alternate ending to World War II, when the islands of Japan are divided into northern and southern territories, and the island of Hokkaido - Japan's second largest prefecture, at the nexus of the Sea of Japan, the Sea of Okhotsk and the Pacific Ocean - is annexed. Around the turn of the millennium, an enigmatic tower is constructed on Hokkaido, and though its purpose is inscrutable to the locals, it causes the tension between the northern and southern territories to double in intensity. As this occurs, two local teenage boys - friends since early childhood - contemplate the mystery of the tower and devise plans to build a plane that will enable them to explore it. They also fall hopelessly in love with the same girl, who lavishes her attentions on each. The three vow to always stay together, and to see the plans for the airplane through to fruition, but in time the friends forge separate paths and a devastating sickness threatens to claim the girl's life. What they cannot even begin to anticipate are the truths that will be uncovered when time and destiny pull them back together. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide

• Special Features
  • Three video interviews with the Japanese cast
  • Video interview with director Makoto Shinkai
  • Original Japanese trailer collection

• Region
  1
• Languages
  • English
• Display Format
  • Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
• Audio
  • Dolby Digital w/ sub-woofer channel

• Chapters
  • Side #1 --
  • 1. Premonition [1:35]
  • 2. Poetry [4:00]
  • 3. A Dream Like This [2:13]
  • 4. Rumors of War [3:02]
  • 5. The Same Dream [3:04]
  • 6. The Promise [4:41]
  • 7. News of the World [1:38]
  • 8. Heartstrings [2:26]
  • 9. Falling [4:24]
  • 10. Experiment [5:04]
  • 11. Tours [3:45]
  • 12. September [6:08]
  • 13. Alone [5:50]
  • 14. March (Of War) [3:36]
  • 15. The Letter [7:52]
  • 16. Sleeping Beauty [6:10]
  • 17. Sign of Past Times [10:51]
  • 18. Sayuri's Theme [2:50]
  • 19. Flight of the Bela Cielo [5:54]
  • 20. Endsong [1:23]

• Menu
  • Side #1 --
  • Play Feature
  • Scene Selection
  • Languages
  • English
  • Japanese With English Subtitles
  • Special Features
  • Interviews With the Japanese Cast and Staff: Hidetaka Yoshioka (Hiroki)
  • Interviews With the Japanese Cast and Staff: Yuuka Nanri (Sayuri)
  • Interviews With the Japanese Cast and Staff: Masato Hagiwara (Takuya)
  • Interviews With the Japanese Cast and Staff: Interviews With the Japanese Cast and Staff: Makoto Shinkai (Director)
  • Japanese Trailers: Special Preview Trailer
  • Japanese Trailers: Web Trailer
  • Japanese Trailers: Full Length Trailer
  • DVD Credits
  • ADV Previews
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  • Farscape Starburst Edition
  • My Beautiful Girl Mari
  • Voices of a Distant Star
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