Your Name.
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Short description
Mitsuha Miyamizu is a high school girl living in a small mountain town with her younger sister and grandmother, helping with the family's shrine traditions while wishing she could leave for Tokyo. Taki Tachibana is a Tokyo teenager who works part-time at an Italian restaurant and dreams of a future in art or architecture. One night they begin swapping bodies during sleep, each waking in the other's life, and they start leaving messages to manage the days they cannot remember. As they adapt to each other's routines, a bond forms between them, and Taki eventually sets out to find Mitsuha, though a mystery surrounds their connection.
Makoto Shinkai wrote and directed the film, which sits between Cross Road (2014) and Weathering with You (2019) in the ten features he has directed. Ryunosuke Kamiki voices Taki and Mone Kamishiraishi voices Mitsuha, with Ryo Narita, Aoi Yuki, Nobunaga Shimazaki and Kaito Ishikawa in supporting roles.
The production cost about 8 million USD and grossed roughly 421 million USD worldwide, an exceptional return for a Japanese animated release. On IMDb it holds 8.4/10 from about 387,000 votes, and on TMDB 8.5/10 from around 13,000 votes. A critics' rating of 8.2/10 from 118 reviews places it slightly below both audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Mitsuki's Japanese teacher is a character from the anime "The Garden of Words," which was also directed by Makoto Shinkai.
- The storyline of the comet and the catastrophic consequences of its collision with Earth was inspired by the earthquake off the east coast of Honshu Island on March 11, 2011.
- The film's authors were inspired by "Torikaebaya Monogatari, or Confusion" (a classic tale from the Heian period, which lasted from 794 to 1185), the manga "I am now Mari" by Shuzo Oshimi, Rumiko Takahashi's manga series "Ranma 1/2" (1987-1996), and Greg Egan's novella "Safehold".
- Taki works at the restaurant Il giardino delle parole, which translates from Italian as "Garden of Words". This is the title of Makoto Shinkai's previous feature-length animated film (titled "The Garden of Words" in the Russian version), released in 2013.
- The comet in the film is named Tiamat. In Sumerian-Babylonian mythology, this is the name of the goddess personifying the world ocean-chaos, from which the world originated.
- The authors of the film were inspired by "Torikaebaya Monogatari, or The Confusion" (a classic story from the Heian period), Shuzo Osami's manga "I am Now Mari," Rumiko Takahashi's manga "Ranma 1/2," and Greg Egan's short story "Safe."
- The film set a box office record and became the highest-grossing anime film in the world.
- The red braided cord worn by Mitsuha symbolizes the invisible red thread that, in Asian cultures, connects a person to their destined fate.
- Taki works at the Il giardino delle parole restaurant, which translates from Italian as "the garden of words." This is the title of Makoto Shinkai's previous feature-length animated film (titled "The Garden of Words" in the Russian version).
- Many features of the fictional city of Itomori were borrowed from Hida in Gifu Prefecture.
- Itomori is a fictional town, many of whose features are borrowed from Hida, a town in the Japanese prefecture of Gifu.
- The heroine of the 2013 feature-length animated film "The Garden of Words", also directed by Makoto Shinkai, is a teacher of classical Japanese language at Mitsuha's school.
- The grandmother Hitohi's name means "one leaf" in Japanese. Then it goes in ascending order: the mother's name translates to "two leaves," Mitsuha's name is "three leaves," and her younger sister's name is "four leaves."
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