Suzume

High-school girl Suzume Iwato lives with her aunt Tamaki in a town in Kyushu. She dreams of her childhood self walking through a ruined cityscape at night, before running into a shadowy figure resembling her late mother. One morning, Suzume meets a young man searching for abandoned locations with doors, and tells him of a nearby abandoned onsen resort. Following him there, Suzume discovers a free-standing door, which she opens to find a starlit field that she cannot enter. During lunch, Suzume notices a large column of smoke outside the classroom window from the abandoned resort, which no one else can see. There, she finds the man from earlier struggling to close the door from which the smoke escapes. Suzume helps him lock the door with an old key. The smoke disappears, but not before causing earthquake-like damage to the town. Suzume takes the injured man, Souta Munakata, to her home. Souta is a "Closer" who locates and locks specific doors in abandoned places throughout Japan to prevent a supernatural worm from being released, causing earthquakes. The cat from the resort turns Souta into the chair he was sitting on. He and Suzume chase the cat onto a ferry headed for Ehime. Souta tells Suzume that the cat is a "keystone" she removed at the resort, releasing the worm from it. Upon reaching Ehime, Suzume and Souta find that netizens have dubbed the cat "Daijin". They encounter the worm again after helping a girl named Chika save oranges from rolling down a hill. Afterwards, they travel to seal a door at an abandoned school. Suzume stays the night at Chika's family hotel. The next day, Suzume and Souta hitchhike to Kobe with a woman named Rumi. Suzume helps at Rumi's bar before seeing Daijin leading them to an abandoned amusement park, stopping the worm from emerging through a ferris wheel gondola. While closing the door, Suzume asks about the starry field. Souta explains that the portal within the doors lead to the Ever-After, where souls go after death. Tracking Daijin to Tokyo, Souta asks Suzume to take them to his apartment.