Your Name (Japanese: 君の名は。 Hepburn: Kimi no Na wa.) is a 2016 Japanese animated romantic 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. The film stars the voices of Ryunosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi, Masami Nagasawa, and Etsuko Ichihara. Shinkai's novel of the same name was published a month before the film's premiere.
Your Name was distributed by Toho. It premiered at the Anime Expo 2016 convention in Los Angeles, California on July 3, 2016, and in Japan on August 26, 2016. It received widespread acclaim from critics, who praised the film for its animation and emotional impact, and was also a major commercial success, becoming the fourth-highest-grossing film of all time in Japan, the 7th-highest-grossing traditionally animated film, the highest-grossing anime and Japanese film and the 5th-highest-grossing non-English film worldwide, with a total gross of more than $355 million. The film won the 49th Sitges Film Festival, 2016 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, and 71st Mainichi Film Awards for Best Animated Feature Film, as well as receiving a nomination for the 40th Japan Academy Prize for the Best Animation of the Year. A live-action remake is currently in the works.
TRAILER:
SYNOPSIS:
From director Makoto Shinkai, the innovative mind behind Voices of a Distant Star and 5 Centimeters Per Second, comes a beautiful masterpiece about time, the thread of fate, and the hearts of two young souls. The day the stars fell, two lives changed forever. High-schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki's body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must adjust their lives around each other. Yet, somehow, it works. They build a connection and communicate by leaving notes, messages, and more importantly, an imprint. When a dazzling comet lights up the night's sky, something shifts, and they seek each other out wanting something more - a chance to finally meet. But try as they might, something more daunting than distance prevents them. Is the string of fate between Mitsuha and Taki strong enough to bring them together, or will forces outside their control leave them forever separated?
CASTS:
| Character | Japanese | English |
|---|---|---|
| Taki Tachibana (立花 瀧 Tachibana Taki) | Ryunosuke Kamiki | 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 | 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 dislikes 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 | 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 | 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 "Tessie" 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. 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 | 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 | 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 also appeared in The Garden of Words. | ||
WATCH / DOWNLOAD THE FULL MOVIE HERE: Kimi no na wa / Your Name (2016)
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