The Garden of Words (2013)

Takao is a high school student but has the soul of an artisan. On rainy mornings he shelters in a gazebo inside a public park; it’s there that he meets an older woman who's also sheltering and the two souls converse.
It’s from the mind of Makoto Shinkai, so it’s visually stunning but equally as beautiful are the sounds that accompany it: the patter of raindrops on the ground, the silence of clouds moving overhead, and the tap of a chalk stick on a blackboard that counts the passing of time arrhythmicaly each add something important to the story. It’s perhaps not as good as some of his other works, but it’s still worlds apart from most everyone else. Make sure and watch the post-credits scene so your heart can begin to mend.

5 faint claps of thunder out of 5