“I’m always searching for something, for someone. This feeling has possessed me I think, from that day… That day when the stars came falling.”
Your Name. (Japanese: 君の名は。 Hepburn: Kimi no Na wa.) is a 2016 Japanese animated romantic fantasy drama film written and directed by Makoto Shinkai and produced by CoMix Wave Films.
The film was produced by Noritaka Kawaguchi and Genki Kawamura, with music composed by Radwimps. Your Name tells the story of a high school girl in rural Japan and a high school boy in Tokyo who swap bodies.
“Even if words are lost, tradition should be handed down.”
PLOT
High school girl Mitsuha Miyamizu lives in the town of Itomori[note 1] in Japan’s mountainous Hida region. She is bored with the country life, and wishes to be a handsome boy in her next life. She begins switching bodies intermittently with Taki Tachibana, a high school boy in Tokyo when they wake up. They communicate by writing messages on paper, their phones, and sometimes on each other’s skin. Mitsuha causes Taki to develop a relationship with his coworker Miki, while Taki causes Mitsuha to become popular in school.
One day, Taki, as Mitsuha, accompanies her grandmother and sister to leave the ritual alcohol kuchikamizake, made by Mitsuha, as an offering at the shrine on a mountaintop outside the town. The shrine is believed to represent the body of the village guardian god who rules human experiences and connections. Mitsuha’s latest note tells Taki about a comet expected to pass Earth on the day of her town festival.
Next day, Taki wakes up in his body. After an unsuccessful date with Miki, he tries to call Mitsuha, but cannot reach her, and the body switching ends. He decides to visit Itomori, but does not know its name, his memories of it are fading, and Mitsuha’s messages have disappeared. A restaurant owner in Hida finally recognizes Itomori from Taki’s sketch and tells him when the comet unexpectedly split into two, the larger piece kept moving, but the smaller one crashed onto Earth and destroyed the town. Taki finds Mitsuha’s name in the records of fatalities and discovers the date of the disaster, realizing their timelines were separated by three years.
Taki goes to the shrine to drink Mitsuha’s kuchikamizake, hoping to reconnect with her body and warn her of the comet strike. Through a vision, Taki discovers that Mitsuha, having fallen in love with him, met his past self while trying to meet him personally. He wakes in her body on the morning of the town festival; Mitsuha’s grandmother deduces his identity, and tells him the body switching is part of the Miyamizu family history as caretakers of the shrine. He convinces Mitsuha’s friends Tessie and Sayaka to help evacuate the town by cutting the power and broadcasting a false emergency alert, but the plan fails. He realizes that Mitsuha must be in his body at the shrine and goes back to find her.
Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body at the shrine. When Taki reaches the shrine as the sun sets they sense each other’s presence, but are separated by three years. However, when twilight falls,[note 2] they return to their own bodies and meet. They attempt to write each other’s names on their hands so they will remember each other, but twilight passes and Mitsuha disappears before she can write hers.
As Mitsuha races back to town to convince her estranged father, the Itomori mayor, to evacuate the town, her memories of Taki start to fade. She realizes that Taki wrote “I love you” on her hand instead of his name. The comet piece crashes to Earth, destroying Itomori. Taki wakes up in his own time at the shrine, remembering nothing.
Five years later, Taki has graduated from university and is searching for a job. He senses he is missing something important and learns that inhabitants of Itomori survived by following the mayor’s order. One day, Taki and Mitsuha see each other when their trains draw parallel, and are compelled to disembark and search for one another, finally meeting on a staircase. Feeling they have met before, they simultaneously ask for each other’s name.
VOICE CAST
| Character | Japanese[3] | English[3][4] |
|---|
| Taki Tachibana (立花 瀧 Tachibana Taki) | Ryunosuke Kamiki[5] | 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[5] | 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 has a strained relationship with 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[6] | 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 (Okudera-senpai) by her colleagues. |
| Hitoha Miyamizu (宮水 一葉 Miyamizu Hitoha) | Etsuko Ichihara[6] | Glynis Ellis |
| The head of the Miyamizu[note 3] family shrine in Itomori[note 4] and the grandmother of Mitsuha and Yotsuha. She is the master of kumihimo (thread weaving), which is one of her family’s traditions. |
| Katsuhiko “Tessie” Teshigawara (勅使河原 克彦 Teshigawara Katsuhiko) | Ryo Narita | Kyle Hebert |
| Mitsuha’s friend, who is an expert with construction machinery and equipment, including explosives, due to his father (the owner of a construction firm) insisting he learn the trade. He is generally referred to as “Tessie”. |
| 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 Tessie. |
| 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[6] | 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. |
| Yukari Yukino (雪野 百香里 Yukino Yukari) | Kana Hanazawa[7] | Katy Vaughn |
| Mitsuha, Tessie, and Sayaka’s Japanese literature teacher. She teaches them the word “Kataware-doki”, meaning twilight in the local Hida dialect, in her class. Yukari was a main character in Shinkai’s previous film The Garden of Words. |
MUSIC
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”.[13] Your Name features the following songs performed by Radwimps:
- “Yumetōrō” (夢灯籠 Yumetōrō, lit. “Dream Lantern”)
- “Zenzenzense” (前前前世 Zenzenzense, lit. “Past Past Past Life”)[13]
- “Sparkle” (スパークル Supākuru)[14]
- “Nandemonaiya” (なんでもないや Nandemonaiya, lit. “It’s Nothing”)[13]
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.[13] 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”.
“Even if the world is cruel, even if all I have is loneliness, I’ll still live with everything I’ve got. Even if this emotion is all I have, I’ll keep struggling.”
RELEASE
World map showing countries where the movie was released (green)
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.[16][17][18] It was released in China by Huaxia Film Distribution on December 2, 2016.[19] 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 Australiancinemas on limited release on November 24, 2016, by Madman Entertainment in both its original Japanese and an English dub.[20] Madman also released the film in New Zealand on December 1, 2016.[21] The film was also released in the United Kingdom on November 18, 2016, distributed by Anime Limited.[22] On January 17, 2017, Funimation announced that the film would be released in North American theaters on April 7, 2017.[23]
BONUS CONTENT!!
HERE ARE SOME LINKS OF THE TRAILER- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU47nhruN-Q
HERE ARE SOME WALLPAPERS YOU COULD DOWNLOAD- https://wall.alphacoders.com/by_sub_category.php?id=239404&name=Your+Name.+Wallpapers
HERE’S THE LINK TO WATCH IT FOR FREE HEHE- https://kissanime.ru/Anime/Kimi-no-Na-wa/Movie-1080p?id=137753&s=rapidvideo
HERES SOME RANDOM LINK ON YOUTUBE IF YOU FINISH WATCHING THE MOVIE-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lJaKoMf6As&t=31s
Quick note for me (creator of this site) before you go, this is a very good anime/movie. This has been my best anime movie on 2016 and no one still beats it till now. The anime is so good that it will left you hanging and wanting more. Even if you’re not much into anime, just give it a chance because this is truly a masterpiece.
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