Your Name. (2016)
Original title: 君の名は。
Your Name. is a 2016 Japanese-language animation movie directed by Makoto Shinkai and Yojiro Noda, with a running time of 1h 46m. It stars Ryunosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi and Ryo Narita.
Mitsuha lives in a quiet mountain town and dreams of the bright lights of Tokyo. Taki is a city boy juggling school and a part-time job. Then they start waking up in each other's bodies, no warning and no explanation, and their two lives begin to tangle. Makoto Shinkai frames the strange arrangement with painterly skies, small-town ritual, and the ache of a connection you can feel but cannot quite name. The animation glows, the RADWIMPS score carries the longing, and a teenage comedy of mistaken identity slowly deepens into something wistful and urgent.
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What is Your Name. about?
Mitsuha lives in a quiet mountain town and dreams of the bright lights of Tokyo. Taki is a city boy juggling school and a part-time job. Then they start waking up in each other's bodies, no warning and no explanation, and their two lives begin to tangle. Makoto Shinkai frames the strange arrangement with painterly skies, small-town ritual, and the ache of a connection you can feel but cannot quite name. The animation glows, the RADWIMPS score carries the longing, and a teenage comedy of mistaken identity slowly deepens into something wistful and urgent.
When was Your Name. released?
Your Name. was released on 1 July 2016.
How long is Your Name.?
Your Name. runs 1h 46m.
Who made Your Name.?
Your Name. was directed by Makoto Shinkai, Yojiro Noda and Akira Kuwahara.
Where can I watch Your Name.?
Your Name. is available on HBO (Via Hulu), HBO Max, MAX (Via Amazon Prime), YouTube TV, Amazon and AppleTV.
Where to watch Your Name.
Stream: HBO (Via Hulu), HBO Max, MAX (Via Amazon Prime), YouTube TV
Rent: Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home, Google Play
Buy: Fandango at Home, Google Play
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Cast
- Ryunosuke Kamiki as Taki Tachibana (voice)
- Mone Kamishiraishi as Mitsuha Miyamizu (voice)
- Ryo Narita as Katsuhiko Teshigawara (voice)
- Aoi Yuuki as Sayaka Natori (voice)
- Nobunaga Shimazaki as Tsukasa Fujii (voice)
- Kaito Ishikawa as Shinta Takagi (voice)
- Kanon Tani as Yotsuha Miyamizu (voice)
- Masaki Terasoma as Toshiki Miyamizu (voice)
- Sayaka Ohara as Futaha Miyamizu (voice)
- Kazuhiko Inoue as Taki's Father (voice)
- Chafurin as Teshigawara's Father (voice)
- Yuka Kato as Teshigawara's Mother (voice)
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A few thoughts on Your Name.
Fans of its tender, time-bending romance should try Life Is Strange, a game where a teenager rewinds moments and pays an emotional price for every one. To the Moon works the same vein, a small pixel-art story about memory and lost connection set to a spare piano score. Both trade action for feeling, the way Makoto Shinkai does.
Time, memory and bodies swapping across mediums
Mitsuha and Taki wake up in each other's bodies with no warning, and this set runs on that same disorientation. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Steins;Gate: Load Region of Deja Vu both twist a timeline around a single choice, Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl splits its heroine's self in two, and Life Is Strange and To the Moon let players rewind or rewrite a life.
Studio Ghibli-style wonder tucked into ordinary life
Your Name folds a mountain-town shrine and old magic into ordinary teenage life, and these do the same blending of wonder and routine. Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke let spirits and gods brush against the everyday, the early Nausicaa cut Warriors of the Wind sends its heroine across a poisoned, half-magical world, and A Whisker Away turns a schoolgirl into a cat to reach the boy she loves.
Quiet, painterly Japanese animation about longing and missed chances
Your Name lingers on Mitsuha's quiet town and Taki's ordinary Tokyo days as much as its fantasy, and this set shares that same patient ache. Weathering with You, The Place Promised in Our Early Days, Her Blue Sky and Summer Ghost pair teenagers with weather, memory or loss, while Only Yesterday, Ocean Waves and I Want to Eat Your Pancreas trade the fantasy for pure, unhurried heartache.
Romances bent by fate, memory or something not quite real
Your Name turns a body swap into a love story that survives distance, memory loss and time itself, and these do the same in the real world. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Ghost let love outlast memory or death, Amelie and Run Lola Run let timing and fate decide whether two people connect, and If You Could See the Sun hides its romance behind a strange, invisible gift.