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Your Name
Theatrical release poster
Directed byMakoto Shinkai
Screenplay byMakoto Shinkai
Produced by
  • Noritaka Kawaguchi
  • Genki Kawamura
Starring
CinematographyMakoto Shinkai
Edited byMakoto Shinkai
Music byRadwimps
Production
company
Distributed byToho
Release dates
  • July 3, 2016 (2016-07-03) (Anime Expo)
  • August 26, 2016 (2016-08-26) (Japan)
  • October 9, 2016 (2016-10-09) (BIFF)
Running time
107 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Box officeUS$147.9 million[1]

Your Name (Japanese: 君の名は。, Hepburn: Kimi no Na wa.) is a 2016 Japanese animated youth science fiction fantasy film written and directed by Makoto Shinkai, with animation by CoMix Wave Films and distributed by Toho.[2] The film is inspired by a novel of the same name written by Shinkai that was released on June 18, 2016.[3] Masayoshi Tanaka is the character designer and Radwimps composed the music for the film. It premiered at the Anime Expo 2016 convention in Los Angeles, California on July 3, 2016, and later 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]

Cast

File:The quote of Kimi no Na wa in BIFF.ogg
The quote of Your Name in film Q&A meeting of Busan International Film Festival.
  • Ryunosuke Kamiki as Taki Tachibana (立花瀧, Tachibana Taki),[4] a high-school boy who lives in Tokyo, who spends his days happily with his friends and has a part-time job in an Italian restaurant.
  • Mone Kamishiraishi as Mitsuha Miyamizu (宮水三葉, Miyamizu Mitsuha),[4] a high-school girl living in Itomori, a rural town. She is a frank girl and dislikes the issues of the family shrine and wishes to live in Tokyo.
  • Masami Nagasawa as Miki Okudera (奥寺ミキ, Okudera Miki), a university student, who works in the same restaurant as Taki.
  • Etsuko Ichihara as Hitoha Miyamizu (宮水一葉, Miyamizu Hitoha), 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 transmissions. The town 糸守 means "thread-guard."
  • Ryo Narita as Katsuhiko Teshigawara (勅使河原克彦, Teshigawara Katsuhiko), Mitsuha's friend, who is an expert with machinery.
  • Aoi Yūki as Sayaka Natori (名取早耶香, Natori Sayaka), Mitsuha's friend.
  • Nobunaga Shimazaki as Tsukasa Fujii (藤井司, Fujii Tsukasa), one of Taki's friends in high school.
  • Kaito Ishikawa as Shinta Takagi (高木真太, Takagi Shinta), one of Taki's friends in high school.
  • Kanon Tani as Yotsuha Miyamizu (宮水四葉, Miyamizu Yotsuha), Mitsuha's younger sister, they live with their grandmother.
  • Masaki Terasoma as Toshiki Miyamizu (宮水俊樹, Miyamizu Toshiki), 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.
  • Sayaka Ohara as Futaha Miyamizu (宮水二葉, Miyamizu Futaha), Mitsuha and Yotsuha's deceased mother.
  • Kana Hanazawa[8] as Yukari Yukino (雪野百香里, Yukino Yukari), Mitsuha, Katsuhiko and Sayaka's Japanese literature teacher. She tells about the word "Kataware-doki" in her class. Yukari also appeared in The Garden of Words.

Reception

The film was number-one on its opening weekend at the Japanese box office, with ¥930 million in gross and 688,000 admissions. Including the opening day on Friday, it grossed a total of ¥1.28 billion.[9] It was number-one again on its second weekend, with 867,345 admissions and ¥1.16 billion in gross.[10] As of September 5, 2016, 10 days after the film's premiere in Japan, it has grossed a total of ¥3.8 billion.[11] It was again number-one on its third weekend, with ¥1.135 billion in gross and 852,000 admissions.[12] By September 11, 2016, the film had grossed a total of ¥6.2 billion and had thus surpassed the distributor Toho's ¥6 billion revenue projection for the film.[13] By September 18, the film was #1 for the fourth week in a row and had grossed ¥9.1 billion (approximately US$89 million), and was projected to become the first non-Ghibli anime movie to earn over 10 billion yen.[14] On September 23, it was reported that the film had indeed grossed over 10 billion yen (approximately US$98 million) and that it had achieved that in only 28 days.[15] On October 3 it was reported that the film has sold 10,025,897 tickets in 39 days since its release on August 26 and grossed ¥13,020,003,500.[16] As of October 8, the film has earned a total of ¥13.8 billion (about US$134 million) and sold 10.61 million tickets in 44 days.[17] As of October 10, the total domestic gross of the film reached 14.56 billion yen as film continued topping Japan's weekend box office in its seventh week with 700 million yen on 513,000 admissions.[18] As of October 15, the total domestic gross of the film reached 15,414,488,300 yen after 52 days at the Box office, selling a total of 11,842,864 tickets.[19]

Awards and nominations

See also

References

  1. ^ "Your Name (Kimi no na wa.)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved October 20, 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. ^ a b c "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. ^ "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.
  9. ^ "Makoto Shinkai's 'your name.' Film Tops Box Office With 1.28 Billion Yen in 3 Days". Anime News Network. August 30, 2016. Retrieved August 30, 2016.
  10. ^ "Japan Box Office Report – 9/3~9/4". tokyohive. 6Theory Media, LLC. September 6, 2016. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
  11. ^ "Makoto Shinkai's 'your name.' Film Earns 3.8 Billion Yen in 10 Days". Anime News Network. September 5, 2016. Retrieved September 5, 2016.
  12. ^ "Japan Box Office Report – 9/10~9/11". tokyohive. 6Theory Media, LLC. September 13, 2016. Retrieved September 15, 2016.
  13. ^ "Makoto Shinkai's 'your name.' Film Earns 6.2 Billion Yen, Tops Box Office For 3rd Week". Retrieved September 19, 2016.
  14. ^ "Makoto Shinkai's Latest Film Is Poised to Be 1st Non-Miyazaki Anime to Top 10 Billion Yen". Retrieved September 20, 2016.
  15. ^ "Makoto Shinkai's 'your name.' Anime Film Earns 10 Billion Yen in 28 Days". Retrieved September 23, 2016.
  16. ^ ""your name." Again Tops Japan's Weekend Box Office, Surpassing Miyazaki's "The Wind Rises"". Crunchyroll. Retrieved October 9, 2016.
  17. ^ "Shinkai's 'your name.' Tops Box Office For 7th Weekend". Retrieved October 11, 2016.
  18. ^ "Shinkai's 'your name.' Film Earns 14.56 Billion Yen to Top Last Samurai, E.T. in Japan". Anime News Network. October 11, 2016. Retrieved October 12, 2016.
  19. ^ "Shinkai's 'your name.' Film Surpasses 15 Billion Yen". Anime News Network. October 17, 2016. Retrieved October 17, 2016.
  20. ^ "Official Competition - BFI London Film Festival 2016". British Film Institute. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  21. ^ "Sitges Film Festival - The unclassifiable 'Swiss Army Man' wins Sitges 2016". Sitges Film Festival. October 15, 2016. Retrieved October 16, 2016.