The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004)
- HD 1080
- Runtime: 90m.
- Status: Released
- 0
- Languages: ja
- Country: Japan
- Director: Makoto Shinkai
- Stars: Hidetaka Yoshioka, Masato Hagiwara, Yuuka Nanri, Unsho Ishizuka, Kazuhiko Inoue
- keywords: airplane, violin, adult animation, alternate timeline, foreign occupation, anime, 1990s, ambiguous
- Production_studio: CoMix Wave Films
- Slogan: Against all odds, a promise will be kept.
- providers: Criterion Channel
- The The Place Promised in Our Early Days is featured in the top rankings of 2004
- #42 in Top Animation of 2004
In a post-war alternative timeline, Japan is divided into the North, controlled by the Union, and the South, controlled by the United States. A mysterious high tower rises within the borders of the Union. Three high school students promise to cross the border with a self-built airplane and unravel the secret of the tower.