Kimi no Na wa.

*Not to be confused with Your name is (1953).*

Your Name: Kimi no Na wa. is a 2016 toho anime film.

 Directed by
 Written by
 Music by
104 Minutes (USA)
 Budget

## Plot

Mitsuha Miyamizu is a high school girlthat is living in the town of Itomori near Hida region. She is bored with small town life and wishes to be a handsome Tokyo boy in her next life. She begins to switch bodies intermittently with Taki Tachibana, a high school boy in Tokyo, when they wake up. They communicate by writing messages on paper, 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 family shrine on a mountaintop outside the town. The shrine is believed to represent the body of the village guardian god ruling human experiences and connections. Mitsuha's latest note tells Taki about the comet Tiamat expected to pass Earth on the day of her town festival.

The 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 meet her directly, but not knowing the town's name he has to rely on his memories of the scenery. A restaurant owner in Hida 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. Looking at the site of the crater and while in disbelief that Mitsuha died this whole time, her messages on his phone disappear and his memories start fading away. Taki finds Mitsuha's name in the records of fatalities and discovers from the date of the disaster that their timelines were separated by three years.

Taki goes to the shrine to drink Mitsuha's sake from the bottle, hoping to reconnect with her body and warn her about the comet strike. Through a vision, Taki discovers that a girl he met on the train was Mitsuha, not knowing they were separated for three years. She had instead met his past self while trying to meet with him personally. He wakes up in her body on the morning of the town festival. Mitsuha's grandmother deduces what happened, and tells him the body-switching is part of the family history and caretakers for the shrine. Taki convinces Tessie and Sayaka to help everyone evacuate the town, by disabling the electrical substation and broadcasting a false emergency alert, while Taki assumes Mitsuha's role as the mayor's daughter to persuade him to evacuate the town. Realizing that Mitsuha is in his body at the shrine, Taki goes back to find her.

Mitsuha wakes up in Taki's body at the shrine. When Taki reaches there just as the sun is setting, the two sense each other's presence, but are separated by three years. However, when twilight falls (referred to in the film as "magic hour" or "kataware-doki"), they return to their own bodies and meet. They attempt to write their names on each hands so they will remember each other, but twilight passes and Mitsuha disappears before she can write hers. The evacuation plan fails, and Mitsuha decides to convince her father once again. Before convincing her father to evacuate the town, Mitsuha notices that her memories for Taki start to fade, and discovers that he wrote "I love you" on her hand instead of his name. Despite the evacuation, the comet piece crashes to Earth and destroys the town. Taki wakes up in his own time, only to remember nothing.

Five years after his visit to Itomori, Taki has graduated from university and searches for a job. He senses he lost something important, but feels drawn to the disaster, learning that the inhabitants of the town 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 the stairs of Suga Shrine [ja]. They initially walk past each other as they are both shocked, but Taki turns around and inquires if they had known each other before. Mitsuha replies that she had the same feeling, and with their connection re-established, they shed tears of happiness and simultaneously ask for their names.

## Cast

* Ryunosuke Kamiki as Taki Tachibana
* Mone Kamishiraishi as Mitsuha Miyamizu
* Masami Nagasawa as Miki Okudera
* Etsuko Ichihara as Hitoha Miyamizu
* Ryo Narita as Katsuhiko Teshigawara
* Aoi Yuuki as Sayaka Natori
* Nobunaga Shimazaki as Tsukasa Fujii
* Kaito Ishikawa as Shinta Takagi
* Kanon Tani as Yotsuha Miyamizu
* Masaki Terasoma as Toshiki Miyamizu
* Sayaka Ohara as Futaba Miyamizu

## Staff

 Produced by
 Screenplay by

 Edited by

## Production

The idea for this story came to Shinkai after he visited Yuriage, Natori City, Miyagi Prefecture, in July 2011, after the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred. He said, "This could have been my town." He said that he wanted to make a movie in which the positions of the people in Yuriage would be swapped with the viewers. The sketches that Shinkai drew during this visit have been shown in exhibitions.

In Makoto Shinkai's proposal sent to Toho in September 14, 2014, the film was originally titled Yume to Shiriseba (夢と知りせば, If I Knew It Was a Dream), derived from a passage in a waka, or "Japanese poem", attributed to Ono no Komachi. Its title was later changed to Kimi no Musubime (きみの結びめ, Your Connection) and Kimi wa Kono Sekai no Hanbun (きみはこの世界のはんぶん, You Are Half of This World) before becoming Kimi no Na Wa. On December 31, 2014, Shinkai announced that he had been spending his days writing storyboard for this film.

Inspiration for the story came from works including Shūzō Oshimi's Inside Mari, Ranma ½, the Heian period novel Torikaebaya Monogatari, and Greg Egan's short story The Safe-Deposit Box. Shinkai also cited Interstellar (2014) by Christopher Nolan as an influence.

While the town of Itomori, one of the film's settings, is fictional, the film drew inspirations from real-life locations that provided a backdrop for the town. Such locations include the city of Hida in Gifu Prefecture and its library, Hida City Library.

## Release

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 was released in 92 countries. In order to qualify for the Academy Awards, the film was released for one week (December 2–8, 2016) in Los Angeles.

In South East asian countries, this movie was screened as well. Purple Plan streamed an English- and Chinese-subtitled trailer for the film and premiered the film in Singapore on November 3 and in Malaysia on November 8, with daily screenings onwards. M Pictures released it on November 10 in Thailand, and earned 22,996,714 baht (about US$649,056) in four days. Indonesian film distributor Encore Films announced that it will premiere the film in Indonesia on December 7. Cinema chain CGV Blitz also revealed that it will screen the film. Pioneer Films announced that it will screen the film in Phillipines in December 14. In Hong Kong, the film opened on November 11, and earned HK$6,149,917 (about US$792,806) in three days. The film premiered in Taiwan on October 21 and earned NT$64 million (about US$2 million) in its first week while staying in the first position in the box office earnings ranking. As of October 31, it has earned NT$52,909,581 (about US$1.666 million) in Taipei alone. It was released in Chinese theatres by Huaxia Film Distribution on December 2, 2016.

The film was released in Australian cinemas on limited release on November 24, 2016, by Madman Entertainment in both its original Japanese and an English dub. Madman also released the film in New Zealand on December 1, 2016.

The film was screened in France on December 28. The film was also released in the United Kingdom on November 18, 2016, distributed by Anime Limited.

The film was released in North American theaters on April 7, 2017, distributed by Funimation.

### Home media

the film was relaesed on DVD the folowing year.

## Links

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your\_Name

https://kiminonawa.fandom.com/wiki/Kimi\_no\_Na\_wa.