8.0
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Animation, Drama, Romance, Fantasy, Science Fiction • 2022 • 83 min • Teen (13+)
The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes (2022)
The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes (2022)
Overview
A Japanese animated fantasy about two high school students who discover a tunnel that grants wishes at a steep personal cost. The story follows their grief, longing, and a quiet romance against a rural summer backdrop. The Leans Traditional label fits because the film's values stay close to Japanese genre conventions: heterosexual romance, emotional restraint, and a focus on personal loss rather than social critique. Family structures in the film are fractured and often painful, which adds a faintly progressive undercurrent, but the movie does not argue for any particular model. It processes grief and desire through a supernatural lens, keeping its politics at zero and its heart firmly in the tradition of melancholy Japanese youth fiction.
Starring Cast
Oji Suzuka • Marie Iitoyo • Tasuku Hatanaka
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Family Values: Leans Progressive
Viewer Rating
8.0
Overview
A Japanese animated fantasy about two high school students who discover a tunnel that grants wishes at a steep personal cost. The story follows their grief, longing, and a quiet romance against a rural summer backdrop. The Leans Traditional label fits because the film's values stay close to Japanese genre conventions: heterosexual romance, emotional restraint, and a focus on personal loss rather than social critique. Family structures in the film are fractured and often painful, which adds a faintly progressive undercurrent, but the movie does not argue for any particular model. It processes grief and desire through a supernatural lens, keeping its politics at zero and its heart firmly in the tradition of melancholy Japanese youth fiction.
Starring Cast
Oji Suzuka • Marie Iitoyo • Tasuku Hatanaka
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
Political: Center
Confidence: High
The film explores universal themes of grief, loss, and the pursuit of personal desires through a fantastical premise, focusing on individual emotional journeys and resolutions rather than societal critiques or political ideologies.
Diversity: Low
Confidence: Medium
The movie features casting that is traditional for its Japanese origin, with no indication of intentional race or gender swaps of roles. The narrative does not present any explicit critique of traditional identities, nor does it center strong DEI themes.
Secondary
Family Values: Leans Progressive
Confidence: Medium
The film predominantly portrays broken family units with absent or abusive parents, leading to protagonists living in non-traditional arrangements (single-parent with an abusive father, grandparent-raised due to divorce and abandonment). While characters long for a functional family, the narrative implicitly questions traditional parental authority and norms through its depiction of parental failures.
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: High
The film does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative centers exclusively on a heterosexual romance and sci-fi elements, with no depiction or exploration of queer identities or experiences.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: High
The film does not feature any identifiable transgender characters or themes. The narrative centers on two high school students who discover a mysterious tunnel that grants wishes, focusing on their personal losses and desires without incorporating elements related to gender identity.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High
The film is an adaptation of a light novel. All major characters, including the protagonists Kaoru Tono and Anzu Hanaki, retain their established genders from the source material in the film adaptation.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: High
The film is a Japanese animated adaptation of a Japanese light novel. All characters in the source material are Japanese, and their portrayal in the film, including voice actors and visual design, remains consistent with their original race. No character established as one race in the source is depicted as a different race in the film.
Hinduism: N/A
Confidence: High
Not depicted in the film.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.1
7.7
Critic Ratings
9.2
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