Your Name

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
Japanese 君の名は。
Hepburn Kimi no Na wa.
Directed by Makoto Shinkai
Produced by
  • Noritaka Kawaguchi
  • Genki Kawamura
Screenplay by Makoto Shinkai
Based on Your Name
by Makoto Shinkai
Starring
Music by Radwimps
Cinematography Makoto Shinkai
Edited by Makoto Shinkai
Production
company
Distributed by Toho
Release dates
  • July 3, 2016 (2016-07-03) (Anime Expo)
  • August 26, 2016 (2016-08-26) (Japan)
Running time
 107 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese
Box office US$174 million[1]

Your Name (Japanese: 君の名は。 Hepburn: Kimi no Na wa.) is a 2016 Japanese anime fantasy film written and directed by Makoto Shinkai, animated by CoMix Wave Films, and distributed by Toho.[2] It is based on Shinkai's novel of the same name, released on June 18, 2016.[3] The characters were designed by Masayoshi Tanaka and the J-rock band Radwimps composed the music.

Your Name premiered at the Anime Expo 2016 convention in Los Angeles, California on July 3, 2016, and 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] Shinkai found very first inspiration for Lake Itomori on Lake Matsubara located in his hometown.[9]

Mitsuha, 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, a high school boy living in Tokyo, wakes up 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, he 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 as Itomori. He is then told that a fragment of the comet Tiamat had actually fallen to earth three years ago and destroyed Itomori, killing a third of the town's population. As Taki looks 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 Mitsuha'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,[10] 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.

The quote of Your Name in film Q&A meeting of Busan International Film Festival.

Eight years later, it is revealed that almost 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 university 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 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

Character Japanese English
Taki Tachibana (立花 瀧 Tachibana Taki) Ryunosuke Kamiki[4] 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.
Mitsuha Miyamizu (宮水 三葉 Miyamizu Mitsuha) Mone Kamishiraishi[4] Stephanie Sheh
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 as a miko in rituals for the 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[11] Laura Post
A university student, she works in the same restaurant as Taki. She and Taki have a mutual crush on each other. 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[11] 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.
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[11] 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[12] Katy Vaughn
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.

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.[13]

While the town of Itamori, 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 the Gifu Prefecture and its library, Hida City Library.[14]

Music

Noda Yojiro, the 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".[15] Your Name features the following songs performed by Radwimps:

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.[15] 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".[17]

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 at least 85 countries, including China, on December 2.[18][19] It is scheduled for a US release in 2017.[20]

Reception

Box office

Your Name became a huge commercial success especially in its domestic market, Japan. The film has accumulated nearly 15 million admissions worldwide, including $172 million in Japan alone.[18] It is currently the fifth highest-grossing film of all time in the country – domestic or imported – behind Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Spirited Away, Titanic and Frozen and the second-biggest domestic film ever, behind 'the Oscar winning Spirited Away. It is also the first anime not directed by Hayao Miyazaki to earn more than $100 million (￥10 billion) at the Japanese box office.[18] 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.[18][21][22]

The success of the film also expanded beyond Japan. In China – the world's second biggest movie market – it was granted a rare release permission along with a few other films as Chinese regulators typically allow 38 foreign films per year, and by the time Your Name was granted a release, the quota had already exceeded by then. It was screened in over 7,000 theaters and 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.[23][24]

Critical reception

Your Name was well-received by critics. Out of a sample of 26 reviews, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes judged 96% of them to be positive, with an average score of 8.3 out of 10.[25] Metacritic gave the film a rating of 81 out of 100, based on 6 reviews.[26]

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".[11] 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)".[11]

Accolades

In November 2016, Funimation announced that Your Name was on the shortlist for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.[27]

List of awards and nominations
Year Award Category Recipient(s) Result
2016 49th Sitges Film Festival[28] Best Animated Feature Length Film Your Name Won
60th BFI London Film Festival[29] 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[30] Arigatō Award Makoto Shinkai Won
7th Newtype Anime Awards[17] Best Picture (Film) Your Name Won
41st Hochi Film Award Best Picture Your Name Nominated
29th Nikkan Sports Film Award Best Film Your Name Pending
Best Director Makoto Shinkai Pending
44th Annie Awards[31] Best Animated Feature — Independent Your Name Pending
Outstanding Achievement, Directing in an Animated Feature Production Makoto Shinkai Pending
2016 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards[32] Best Animated Film Your Name Won
2017 21st Satellite Awards[33] Best Animated or Mixed Media Feature Your Name Pending

Gallery


See also

References

  1. ↑ "Your Name (Kimi no na wa.)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved November 18, 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. 1 2 3 "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. ↑ 斉藤和音 (October 21, 2016). "「君の名は。」企画書やコンテ紹介　監督の故郷・小海町高原美術館". Chunichi Web. The Chunichi Shimbun. Archived from the original on November 9, 2016. Retrieved November 9, 2016.
  10. ↑ "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). In old Japan, people believed that something supernatural could happen at the twilight time.
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 Schilling, Mark (Aug 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.
  12. ↑ "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.
  13. ↑ 〈COLUMN1 入れ替わりから見えてくる面白さ〉. 『君の名は。 公式ビジュアルガイド』 (in Japanese). Japan: 角川書店. August 27, 2016. p. 48. ISBN 978-4-04-104780-4.
  14. ↑ "City that inspired settings in hit anime 'yourname.' sees unbelievable boost in tourism". Japan Today. November 28, 2016. Retrieved November 28, 2016.
  15. 1 2 3 4 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.
  16. ↑ Stimson, Eric (October 30, 2016). "RADWIMPS Release your name's "Sparkle (original ver.)"". animenewsnetwork. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
  17. 1 2 "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.
  18. 1 2 3 4 Gavin J. Blair (November 28, 2016). "'Your Name' Passes 'Princess Mononuke' to Become Third-Highest Grossing Japanese Film of All Time". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved November 28, 2016.
  19. ↑ Mark Schilling (November 7, 2016). "Japanese Hit 'Your Name' Wins China Release". Variety. Retrieved November 28, 2016.
  20. ↑ "Your Name". Funimation Films. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
  21. ↑ Mark Schilling (October 25, 2016). "Japan Box Office: 'Your Name' Wins Ninth Weekend". Variety. Retrieved November 28, 2016.
  22. ↑ Mark Schilling (October 31, 2016). "Japan Box Office: Warner's 'Death Note' Ends 'Your Name' Dominance". Variety. Retrieved November 28, 2016.
  23. ↑ Kyodo (December 3, 2016). "Animated teen flick 'your name.' scores lucrative debut in China". The Japan Times. Retrieved December 3, 2016.
  24. ↑ Patrick Frater (December 2, 2016). "Japan's 'Your Name' Poised to Win China Box Office Weekend". Variety. Retrieved December 3, 2016.
  25. ↑ "Your Name (Kimi No Na Wa.)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
  26. ↑ "Your Name". Metacritic. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
  27. ↑ http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-11-07/shinkai-your-name-film-submitted-for-oscar-consideration/.108554
  28. ↑ "Sitges Film Festival - The unclassifiable 'Swiss Army Man' wins Sitges 2016". Sitges Film Festival. October 15, 2016. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  29. ↑ "Official Competition - BFI London Film Festival 2016". British Film Institute. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  30. ↑ "'Yesterday' Takes Top Prize at Tokyo Film Festival". Variety. November 3, 2016. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
  31. ↑ "Miss Hokusai, Red Turtle, your name Nominated for Annie Awards". Anime News Network. November 28, 2016. Retrieved November 29, 2016.
  32. ↑ "42nd Annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 2016 Winners". Los Angeles Film Critics Association. December 4, 2016. Retrieved December 5, 2016.
  33. ↑ Kilday, Gregg (November 29, 2016). "Satellite Awards Nominees Revealed". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved November 29, 2016.

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