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Japanese | 君の名は。 |
Hepburn | Kimi no Na wa. |
Literally | Your Name |
Directed by | Makoto Shinkai |
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Screenplay by | Makoto Shinkai |
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Your Name by Makoto Shinkai |
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Music by | Radwimps |
Cinematography | Makoto Shinkai |
Edited by | Makoto Shinkai |
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Distributed by | Toho |
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107 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Box office | US$331.6 million |
Your Name (Japanese: 君の名は。 Hepburn: Kimi no Na wa.?) (commonly stylized as your name.) is a 2016 Japanese anime romantic fantasy drama film directed, written, cinematographed, and edited by Makoto Shinkai, based on his own novel of the same name published only a month before the film's premiere. It tells the story of a young man living in Tokyo and a young woman living in the countryside who suddenly start switching bodies on a regular basis.
Your Name was animated by CoMix Wave Films, and distributed by Toho. The film premiered at the Anime Expo 2016 convention in Los Angeles, California on July 3, 2016, and premiered in Japan on August 26, 2016. At Anime Expo 2016, it was announced that the film had been licensed by Funimation.
The film has received critical acclaim, being praised for its animation and emotional impact, and was also a major commercial success in its country, becoming the fourth highest-grossing film of all time in Japan and the highest-grossing anime film worldwide, with, as of January 15, 2017, a gross of over US$331 million.
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 younger sister and grandmother, she makes kuchikamizake sake and leaves it as an offering in the family tomb on a mountaintop outside the town.