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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$172 million[1]

Your Name (Japanese: 君の名は。, Hepburn: Kimi no Na wa.) is a 2016 Japanese animated youth science fiction fantasy film written and directed by Makoto Shinkai, with animation by CoMix Wave Films and distributed by Toho.[2] The film is inspired by a novel of the same name written by Shinkai that was released on June 18, 2016.[3] Masayoshi Tanaka is the character designer and Radwimps composed the music for the film. It premiered at the Anime Expo 2016 convention in Los Angeles, California on July 3, 2016, and later premiered in Japan on August 26, 2016.[4][5][6] At Anime Expo 2016, it was announced that the film has been licensed by Funimation.[7]

Plot

Lake Suwa, the inspiration for Lake Itomori in Your Name.[8]

Mitsuha Miyamizu, a high school girl living in the town of Itomori, is fed up with her life in the countryside and wishes to be a handsome Tokyo boy in her next life. Later, Taki Tachibana, a high school boy living in Tokyo, wakes up in a daze and realizes that he is Mitsuha, who herself has somehow ended up in Taki's body.

Taki and Mitsuha realize they have been transported into each other's bodies. They start communicating with each other by leaving notes on paper or leaving memos in each other's phones. As time passes, they become used to the body swap and start intervening in each other's lives. Mitsuha helps Taki in getting closer to his female coworker, Miki Okudera, and eventually landing a date with her, while Taki helps Mitsuha in becoming more popular in her school. Mitsuha then tells Taki about an upcoming comet and how she is excited to see it, as it will arrive at the same day as her town's festival.

One day, Taki suddenly wakes up back in his body. After an unsuccessful first date with Miki, te tries contacting Mitsuha but fails. He later finds that they have stopped switching bodies and eventually decides to visit Mitsuha in her hometown. Without knowing the name of her village, he travels around rural parts of Japan, relying solely on the sketches of the village's scenery that Taki drew from memory. Finally, a restaurant server recognizes the town in Taki's sketch is Itomori. He is then told that a fragment of the comet Mitsuha mentioned had actually fallen to earth three years ago and destroyed Itomori, killing a third of the town's population. As Taki looked through the records of fatalities from the incident, he finds Mitsuha's name.

Attempting to reconnect with Mitsuha, Taki goes to Mitsuha's family shrine. Realizing that his and Mitusha's timelines were actually out of sync the whole time, Taki drinks kuchikamizake that Mitsuha made and left behind as an offering, hoping to reconnect to her body before the comet strikes. He wakes up in her body and sees that he still has time to save the town. Convincing her friends about the comet, he gets their help in trying to evacuate the village. While they continue with their plans, Taki realizes that Mitsuha might be in his body at the shrine and heads there to meet with her.

Mitsuha's spirit awakens in Taki's body and wanders to the top of the mountain where the shrine is. Although they feel each other's presence, they are unable to see each other due to the two still being out of sync. As the sun sets, both Taki and Mitsuha realize it is twilight time,[9] when they are transported back to their own bodies and are finally able to see each other. Taki tells Mitsuha to convince her estranged father, who is the mayor, to evacuate the town. They decide to write each other's names on their hands as they return to their respective timelines, but Mitsuha disappears before she could start writing her name, while Taki wrote "I love you" instead of his name. They desperately try to remember the name of the other, but eventually forget each other's names and events that had happened to them. Mitsuha and her friends appear to have failed in evacuating the village as the comet fragments hit.

Eight years later, it is revealed that all of Itomori's residents managed to survive, due to Mitsuha having persuaded her father in time to conduct an emergency evacuation drill over the surrounding districts. Taki has graduated from high school and is trying to find a job, but still has lingering feelings that something important to him was missing. He finds himself attracted to items relating to Itomori, such as magazines and people he thinks are familiar (whom he actually knew when he was in Mitsuha's body). While riding separate subway trains, Taki and Mitsuha see each other when their trains pass by. They get out of their next stops and try to find each other. They end up meeting at a staircase and, feeling like they know each other somehow, ask for each other's name.

Cast

File:The quote of Kimi no Na wa in BIFF.ogg
The quote of Your Name in film Q&A meeting of Busan International Film Festival.
  • Ryunosuke Kamiki as Taki Tachibana (立花瀧, Tachibana Taki),[4] 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.
  • Mone Kamishiraishi as Mitsuha Miyamizu (宮水三葉, Miyamizu Mitsuha),[4] a high-school girl living in Itomori, a rural town. She is a frank girl who dislikes the issues of the family shrine and wishes to live in Tokyo. She dislikes her father and is embarrassed by his often open displays of control as well as her part in rituals for the shrine creating kuchikamizake, an ancient traditional way of creating sake involving chewing boiled rice to intake yeast for fermentation.
  • Masami Nagasawa as Miki Okudera (奥寺ミキ, Okudera Miki),[10] more commonly referred to as Ms. Okudera or senpai (a respectful term for upperclassman). A university student, she works in the same restaurant as Taki. She and Taki have a mutual crush on each other.
  • Etsuko Ichihara as Hitoha Miyamizu (宮水一葉, Miyamizu Hitoha),[10] 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 transmissions. The town 糸守 (Itomori), where she and her family live and half of the plot's events take place, means "thread-guard".
  • Ryo Narita as Katsuhiko Teshigawara (勅使河原克彦, Teshigawara Katsuhiko), Mitsuha's friend, who is an expert with construction machinery, particularly explosives.
  • Aoi Yūki as Sayaka Natori (名取早耶香, Natori Sayaka), Mitsuha's friend. She is a nervous girl in the broadcast club in high school that vehemently denies her attraction to Katsuhiko.
  • Nobunaga Shimazaki as Tsukasa Fujii (藤井司, Fujii Tsukasa), one of Taki's friends in high school. He is often concerned about Taki whenever Mitsuha embodies him.
  • Kaito Ishikawa as Shinta Takagi (高木真太, Takagi Shinta), one of Taki's friends in high school. He is optimistic and jumps to the rescue of his friends.
  • Kanon Tani as Yotsuha Miyamizu (宮水四葉, Miyamizu Yotsuha),[10] 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 kuchikami no sake.
  • Masaki Terasoma as Toshiki Miyamizu (宮水俊樹, Miyamizu Toshiki), 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.
  • Sayaka Ohara as Futaba Miyamizu (宮水二葉, Miyamizu Futaba), Mitsuha and Yotsuha's deceased mother.
  • Kana Hanazawa[11] as Yukari Yukino (雪野百香里, Yukino Yukari), Mitsuha, Katsuhiko, and Sayaka's Japanese literature teacher. She tells about the word "Kataware-doki", meaning twilight in the local Hida dialect, in her class. Yukari also appeared in The Garden of Words.

Music

See also: Your Name (album)

Noda Yojiro, the vocalist of the Japanese rock band Radwimps, composed 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".[12] Your Name features the following songs performed by Radwimps:

  • Zenzenzense (前前前世, "Previous Previous Previous Life")[12]
  • Supākuru (スパークル, "Sparkle")[13]
  • Nandemonaiya (なんでもないや, "It's Nothing")[12]

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.[12] 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".[14]

Reception

Critical Reception

Your Name was positively received by critics. Out of a sample of of 6 reviews, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes judged 100% of them to be positive, with an average score of 8.5 out of 10.[15] Metacritic gave the film a rating of 82 out of 100, based on 4 reviews.[16]

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".[10] 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)".[10]

Box office

The film was number-one on its opening weekend at the Japanese box office, with ¥930 million in gross and 688,000 admissions. Including the opening day on Friday, it grossed a total of ¥1.28 billion.[17] As of October 15, the total domestic gross of the film reached 15 billion yen after 52 days at the box office, selling a total of 11,842,864 tickets.[18]. As of November 7, 2016 "Your Name" has earned 17.97 billion yen (about USD $172 million).[19]

Accolades

List of awards and nominations
Year Award Category Recipients Result
2016 49th Sitges Film Festival[20] Best Animated Feature Length Film Your Name Won
60th BFI London Film Festival[21] 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[22] ARIGATŌ Award Makoto Shinkai Won
Newtype Anime Awards[14] Best Picture (Film) Your Name Won

See also

References

  1. ^ "Your Name (Kimi no na wa.)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  2. ^ "君の名は。(2016)". allcinema (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved August 30, 2016.
  3. ^ "Makoto Shinkai Publishes Kimi no Na wa./your name. Novel Before Film Opens". Anime News Network. May 11, 2016. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
  4. ^ a b c "Makoto Shinkai Reveals Kimi no Na wa./your name. Anime Film for August 2016". Anime News Network. December 10, 2015. Retrieved February 9, 2016.
  5. ^ "Makoto Shinkai's Kimi no Na wa./your name. Film Trailer Reveals August 26 Opening, Song". Anime News Network. April 6, 2016. Retrieved April 6, 2016.
  6. ^ "Anime Expo to Host Makoto Shinkai & His Latest Film's World Premiere". Anime News Network. June 17, 2016. Retrieved June 17, 2016.
  7. ^ "Anime Expo: Funimation Licenses Makoto Shinkai's your name. Film". Anime News Network. July 3, 2016. Retrieved July 3, 2016.
  8. ^ "女子高生・三葉が暮らす家 美術監督 丹治匠". at-Home Co. (in Japanese). August 19, 2016. Archived from the original on November 8, 2016. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
  9. ^ "Kataware-doki," the word Taki and Mitsuha said, is turned from "kawatare-doki," an old Japanese word meaning twilight. "Kawatare" (彼は誰) literally meaning "Who is he/she?". "Kataware" also has the same sound as a word meaning one of the couple (片割れ).
  10. ^ a b c d e Schilling, Mark (August 31, 2016). "'Your name.': Makoto Shinkai could be the next big name in anime". The Japan Times. Archived from the original on November 8, 2016. Retrieved November 8, 2016. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |work= (help)
  11. ^ "映画『君の名は。』新海誠監督インタビュー！". animatetimes. August 30, 2016. Retrieved September 2, 2016.
  12. ^ a b c d Masangkay, May (November 4, 2016). "Radwimps play a part in the popularity of anime film 'your name.'". Kyodo. The Japan Times. Archived from the original on November 8, 2016. Retrieved November 8, 2016. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |work= (help)
  13. ^ Stimson, Eric (October 30, 2016). "RADWIMPS Release your name's "Sparkle (original ver.)"". animenewsnetwork. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
  14. ^ a b "Shinkai's 'your name.,' Kabaneri Win Top Newtype Anime Awards". Anime News Network. October 9, 2016. Archived from the original on November 8, 2016. Retrieved November 8, 2016. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |work= (help)
  15. ^ "Your Name (Kimi No Na Wa.)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
  16. ^ "Your Name". Metacritic. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
  17. ^ "Makoto Shinkai's 'your name.' Film Tops Box Office With 1.28 Billion Yen in 3 Days". Anime News Network. August 30, 2016. Retrieved August 30, 2016.
  18. ^ "Shinkai's 'your name.' Film Surpasses 15 Billion Yen". Anime News Network. October 17, 2016. Retrieved October 17, 2016.
  19. ^ "Shinkai's 'your name.' Returns to #1 in Japanese Box Office in 11th Week". Anime News Network. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  20. ^ "Sitges Film Festival - The unclassifiable 'Swiss Army Man' wins Sitges 2016". Sitges Film Festival. October 15, 2016. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  21. ^ "Official Competition - BFI London Film Festival 2016". British Film Institute. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  22. ^ "'Yesterday' Takes Top Prize at Tokyo Film Festival". Variety. November 3, 2016. Retrieved November 8, 2016. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |work= (help)
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