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Your Name.

Two high-school students, a boy and a girl, who live in different places in Japan begin to switch bodies; they can communicate with each other in special ways, but one day the boy discovers what’s really going on… The film that made Makoto Shinkai famous far outside Japan’s borders was a huge hit and earned comparisons with the great Miyazaki. It’s a jaw-droppingly gorgeous romantic fantasy contrasting the best of Tokyo and the Japanese countryside, fusing cultural mythology with teenage cutesyness and a mournful tale about a comet. Complicated but touching, helped in no small degree by Radwimps’s emotional song score.

2016-Japan. Animated. 106 min. Color. Produced by Kôichirô Itô, Genki Kawamura, Katsuhiro Takei. Written, directed and edited by Makoto Shinkai. Songs: Radwimps. Voices of Ryûnosuke Kamiki (Taki Tachibana), Mone Kamishiraishi (Mitsuha Miyamizu), Ryô Narita (Katsuhiko Teshigawara), Aoi Yuki, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Kaito Ishikawa.

Trivia: Original title: Kimi no na wa. 

Last word: “My motivation is different from one movie to another. With ‘Your Name’, I’ve changed and society has changed, so my motivation is different with this film. The reason for the change is the earthquake in 2011. That really changed my perception of the world. There’s a line in the film – ‘you never know, Tokyo might go tomorrow’ – and I think everyone in Japan is aware of that. That can happen, and it has happened. You can lose that everyday, normal life. So I wanted to create a story of recovery. You can’t change the past in real life, but you can change the past in a movie.” (Shinkai, Little White Lies)

 

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