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This article is about the film. For the original novel, see Your Name (novel). For the soundtrack album, see Your Name (album).

Your Name.
Theatrical release poster
Directed byMakoto Shinkai
Screenplay byMakoto Shinkai
Produced by
  • Noritaka Kawaguchi
  • Genki Kawamura
Starring
CinematographyMakoto Shinkai
Edited byMakoto Shinkai
Music byRadwimps
Production
company
Distributed byToho
Release dates
  • July 3, 2016 (2016-07-03) (Anime Expo)
  • August 26, 2016 (2016-08-26) (Japan)
Running time
107 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Box officeUS$353.3 million[1]

Your Name (Japanese: 君の名は。, Hepburn: Kimi no Na wa.) is a 2016 Japanese anime film written and directed by Makoto Shinkai. Based on his novel of the same name published a month before the film's premiere, Your Name tells the story of a high school girl in rural Japan and a high school boy in Tokyo who swap bodies.

Your Name was animated by CoMix Wave Films, and distributed by Toho. It premiered at the Anime Expo 2016 convention in Los Angeles, California on July 3, 2016, and in Japan on August 26, 2016. It received critical acclaim for its animation and emotional impact, and was also a major commercial success, becoming the fourth highest-grossing film of all time in Japan, the 7th-highest grossing traditionally animated film and the highest-grossing anime film worldwide, with a total gross of more than $353 million.

Plot

Mitsuha, a high school girl living in the town of Itomori in Japan's mountainous Hida region, is bored of country life and wishes she were a handsome Tokyo boy. With her grandmother and younger sister, she makes kuchikamizake sake.

Mitsuha begins switching bodies intermittently with Taki, a high school boy living in Tokyo. Their memories of each other swap fade quickly, similar to dreams. They realize the experiences are real when their friends and family tell them they have acted strangely recently. They begin to communicate by leaving notes in Mitsuha's notebook and memos on Taki's phone, and intervene in each other's lives. Mitsuha helps Taki develop a relationship with his coworker Miki, while Taki helps Mitsuha become popular in school. As Taki leaves Mitsuha's kuchikamizake as an offering in the family tomb on a mountaintop outside the town, Mitsuha tells Taki about a comet expected to pass Earth on the day of her town's festival.

One day, Taki wakes up back in his body. After an unsuccessful date with Miki, he tries to contact Mitsuha but fails, and the body switching ends. He decides to visit her hometown, but does not know its name and his memories of it are fading. A restaurant owner in Hida recognizes the town from Taki's sketch and tells him it was destroyed by a fragment of a comet three years ago. Taki finds Mitsuha's name in the records of fatalities.

Taki goes to Mitsuha's family shrine and realizes that he and Mitsuha's timelines were separated by three years. He finds the kuchikamizake and drinks it, hoping to reconnect to her body before the comet strikes. He sees Mitsuha's past, discovering that her father left the family after his wife died, and that Mitsuha, having fallen in love with Taki, went to visit him hours before the comet struck; she met his younger self, giving him her name and ribbon. He wakes up in her body on the morning of the festival and reveals his identity to Mitsuha's grandmother; she tells him the body switching is part of the Miyamizu family history caused by the kuchikamizake. He convinces Mitsuha's friends Teshi and Saya to help him evacuate the village, but realizes that Mitsuha might be in his body at the shrine and goes back to the mountain.

Mitsuha wakes up in Taki's body at the shrine, and although they sense each other's presence on the mountain, she and Taki are separated by time. They realize it is twilight,[2] travel back to their own bodies, and finally meet. Taki tells Mitsuha to convince her estranged father, the mayor of Itomori, to evacuate the town. As they return to their respective timelines, they attempt to write each other's names on their hands so they remember each other, but Mitsuha disappears before she can write hers.

As Mitsuha races back to town, their memories of each other start to fade. Mitsuha realizes that Taki wrote "I love you" on her hand instead of his name. Mitsuha confronts her father and convinces him to evacuate the town. The comet piece crashes to Earth, destroying Itomori, but its inhabitants survive.

Five years later, Taki has graduated from university and is searching for a job, but senses he is missing something important. He recognizes Teshi and Saya in a Tokyo restaurant, who speak briefly about their future wedding, but cannot identify them. One day, Taki and Mitsuha recognize each other when their trains draw parallel. They disembark and search for one another, finally meeting on a staircase. Feeling as though they have met before, they ask for each other's name.

Cast

Character Japanese English
Taki Tachibana (立花 瀧, Tachibana Taki) Ryunosuke Kamiki[3] Michael Sinterniklaas
A high-school boy living in Tokyo, who spends his days happily with his friends and has a part-time job in an Italian restaurant. He is short-tempered but well meaning and kind, and aspires to become an architect.
Mitsuha Miyamizu (宮水 三葉, Miyamizu Mitsuha) Mone Kamishiraishi[3] Stephanie Sheh
A high-school girl living in Itomori, a rural town. She is dissatisfied with small-town life and wishes to move to Tokyo. She dislikes her father and is embarrassed by his often open displays of control as well as her part as a miko in rituals for her family's shrine creating kuchikamizake, an ancient traditional way of creating sake involving chewing rice to intake yeast for fermentation.
Miki Okudera (奥寺 ミキ, Okudera Miki) Masami Nagasawa[4] Laura Post
A university student, she works in the same restaurant as Taki. She and Taki have a mutual crush on each other, though Taki does not want a relationship and Okudera only has feelings for him when Mitsuha is in his body. She is more commonly referred to as Ms. Okudera or senpai (a respectful term for upperclassman).
Hitoha Miyamizu (宮水 一葉, Miyamizu Hitoha) Etsuko Ichihara[4] Glynis Ellis
The head of the family shrine and the grandmother of Mitsuha and Yotsuha. Their family name 宮水 literally means "shrine water". She is the master of kumihimo, which is one of her family's traditions. The town 糸守 (Itomori), where she and her family live and half of the plot's events take place, means "thread-guard".
Katsuhiko Teshigawara (勅使河原 克彦, Teshigawara Katsuhiko) Ryo Narita Kyle Hebert
Mitsuha's friend, who is an expert with construction machinery, particularly explosives. He is generally referred to as "Teshi".
Sayaka Natori (名取 早耶香, Natori Sayaka) Aoi Yūki Cassandra Morris
Mitsuha's friend. She is a nervous girl in the broadcast club in high school that vehemently denies her attraction to Katsuhiko.
Tsukasa Fujii (藤井 司, Fujii Tsukasa) Nobunaga Shimazaki Ben Pronsky
One of Taki's friends in high school. He is often concerned about Taki whenever Mitsuha embodies him.
Shinta Takagi (高木 真太, Takagi Shinta) Kaito Ishikawa Ray Chase
One of Taki's friends in high school. He is optimistic and jumps to the rescue of his friends.
Yotsuha Miyamizu (宮水 四葉, Miyamizu Yotsuha) Kanon Tani[4] Catie Harvey
Mitsuha's younger sister, who lives with her and their grandmother. She thinks her sister is somewhat crazy but loves her despite the situation. She participates in creating both kumihimo and kuchikamizake.
Toshiki Miyamizu (宮水 俊樹, Miyamizu Toshiki) Masaki Terasoma Scott Williams
Mitsuha and Yotsuha's father, who is the town's mayor. He used to be a folklorist who came to the town for research and met Mitsuha's mother. He is very strict and jaded from events that occurred in his life.
Futaba Miyamizu (宮水 二葉, Miyamizu Futaba) Sayaka Ohara Michelle Ruff
Mitsuha and Yotsuha's deceased mother.
Yukari Yukino (雪野 百香里, Yukino Yukari) Kana Hanazawa[5] Katy Vaughn
Mitsuha, Katsuhiko, and Sayaka's Japanese literature teacher. She teaches them the word "Kataware-doki", meaning twilight in the local Hida dialect, in her class. Yukari also appeared in The Garden of Words.

Production

Inspiration for the story came from works including Shūzō Oshimi's Inside Mari, Ranma ½, the Heian period novel Torikaebaya Monogatari, and Greg Egan's short story The Safe-Deposit Box.[6]

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While the town of Itomori, one of the film's settings, is fictional, the film drew inspirations from real-life locations that provided backdrop for the town. Such locations include the city of Hida in Gifu Prefecture and its library, Hida City Library.[7]

Music

See also: Your Name (album)

Yojiro Noda, the lead vocalist of the Japanese rock band Radwimps, composed the theme music of Your Name. Director Makoto Shinkai requested him to compose its music "in a way that the music will (supplement) the dialogue or monologue of the characters".[8] Your Name features the following songs performed by Radwimps:

  • Yumetōrō (夢灯籠, "Dream Lantern")
  • Zenzenzense (前前前世, "Previous Previous Previous Life")[8]
  • Supākuru (スパークル, "Sparkle")[9]
  • Nandemonaiya (なんでもないや, "It's Nothing")[8]

The soundtrack of the film was well received by both audiences and critics alike and is acknowledged as being one of the factors behind its success at the box office.[8] The film's soundtrack was the runner-up in the "Best Soundtrack" category at the 2016 Newtype Anime Awards, while the song ZenZenZense was the runner-up in the "Best Theme Song Category".[10]

Release

The film premiered at the 2016 Anime Expo convention in Los Angeles, California on July 3, 2016, and later was released theatrically in Japan on August 26, 2016. The film is scheduled to be released in 92 countries.[11][12][13] It was released in China by Huaxia Film Distribution on December 2, 2016.[14] In order to qualify for the Academy Awards, the film was released for one week (December 2–8, 2016) in Los Angeles. The film was released in Australian cinemas on limited release on November 24, 2016 by Madman Entertainment in both its original Japanese and an English dub.[15] Madman also released the film in New Zealand on December 1, 2016.[16] The film was also released in the United Kingdom on November 24, 2016.[17] On January 17, 2017, Funimation announced that the film will be released in North American theaters on April 7, 2017.[18]

Reception

Box office

Your Name became a huge commercial success, especially in Japan,[19] where it grossed ¥23 billion (~US$190 million). That is the second largest gross for a domestic film in Japan, behind Spirited Away, and the fourth largest ever, behind Titanic and Frozen.[20] It is the first anime not directed by Hayao Miyazaki to earn more than $100 million (~￥10 billion) at the Japanese box office.[12] It topped the box office in Japan for a record-breaking 12 non-consecutive weekends. It held the number-one position for nine consecutive weekends before being toppled by Death Note: Light Up the New World in the last weekend of October. It returned to the top for another three weeks before finally being dethroned by Hollywood blockbuster Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.[12][21][22]

The success of the film also extended beyond Japan. In China, it became the highest-grossing Japanese film in the world's second largest movie market on December 17, 2016.[23] It has grossed US$81.3 million in China and is the highest-grossing 2D animated film in the country.[24] Its opening screened in over 7,000 theaters. It made an estimated $10.9 million on its opening day from 66,000 screenings and attracting over 2.77 million admissions, the biggest 2D animated opening in the country.[25][26]

It is the highest-grossing Japanese film in Thailand, with ฿44.1 million (US$1.23 million).[11] As of December 26, the film has grossed $771,945 USD in Australia.[27] and $95,278 USD in New Zealand.[28] On a December 20 blog post, the Australian distributor Madman stated that the film had made over $1,000,000 AUD in the Australian box office alone before closing its limited release run.[29] The film was number-one on its opening five days in South Korea, with 1.18 million admissions and a gross of US$8.2 million,[30] becoming the first Japanese film since Howl's Moving Castle to reach number one in the country.[31]

Critical reception

Your Name received critical acclaim. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 98%, based on 84 reviews, and an average rating of 8.3/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "As beautifully animated as it is emotionally satisfying, Your Name adds another outstanding chapter to writer-director Makoto Shinkai's filmography."[32] On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating, the film has a score 79 out of 100, based on 25 critics, indicating "Generally favorable reviews".[33]

Mark Schilling of The Japan Times gave the film a rating of 4 out of 5 and praised the film's animation for its "blend of gorgeous, realistic detail and emotionally grounded fantasy".[4] However, he criticized the film's "over-deliver[y]" of "the comedy of adolescent embarrassment and awkwardness" and its ending for being "To the surprise of no one who has ever seen a Japanese seishun eiga (youth drama)".[4]

Reception outside of Japan was also very positive.[19][34] Mark Kermode called the film his ninth favourite film to be released in the United Kingdom in 2016.[35] US reviews were mostly positive. The New York Times described it as "a wistfully lovely Japanese tale",[36] while The Atlantic said it was "a dazzling new work of anime".[37] Conversely, The Boston Globe had a mixed opinion of the film, saying that it was "pretty but too complicated".[38]

Despite the praise he received, Makoto Shinkai insisted that the film is not as good as it could have been: "There are things we could not do, Masashi Ando [Director of animation] wanted to keep working [on] but had to stop us for lack of money ... For me it’s incomplete, unbalanced. The plot is fine but the film is not at all perfect. Two years was not enough."[39]

Accolades

List of awards and nominations
Year Award Category Recipient(s) Result
2016 49th Sitges Film Festival[40] Best Animated Feature Length Film Your Name Won
60th BFI London Film Festival[41] Best Film Your Name Nominated
18th Bucheon International Animation Festival Best Animated Feature Special Distinction Prize Your Name Won
Best Animated Feature Audiences Prize Your Name Won
29th Tokyo International Film Festival[42] Arigatō Award Makoto Shinkai Won
6th Newtype Anime Awards[10] Best Picture (Film) Your Name Won
Best Soundtrack Your Name Runner-up
Best Theme Song Category ZenZenZense Runner-up
41st Hochi Film Award Best Picture Your Name Nominated
29th Nikkan Sports Film Award Best Film Your Name Nominated
Best Director Makoto Shinkai Won
2016 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards[43] Best Animated Film Your Name Won
Women Film Critics Circle 2016[44] Best Animated Female Your Name Nominated
2017 44th Annie Awards[45] Best Animated Feature — Independent Your Name Nominated
Outstanding Achievement, Directing in an Animated Feature Production Makoto Shinkai Nominated
21st Satellite Awards[46] Best Animated or Mixed Media Feature Your Name Nominated
71st Mainichi Film Awards Best Animated Film Your Name Won
59th Blue Ribbon Awards Best Film Your Name Nominated
Best Director Makoto Shinkai Nominated
Special Award Your Name Won
11th Asian Film Awards Best Screenplay Makoto Shinkai Nominated
40th Japan Academy Prize Excellent Animation of the Year Your Name Won
Animation of the Year Your Name Nominated
Director of the Year Makoto Shinkai Nominated
Screenplay of the Year Makoto Shinkai Won
Outstanding Achievement in Music Radwimps Won
36th Anima Festival[47] Audience Award for Best Animated Feature Your Name Won
11th Seiyu Awards Best Actor Ryunosuke Kamiki Won
Best Actress Mone Kamishiraishi Won
Synergy Award Your Name Won

See also

References

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