However, this does not take away from my overall score which I shall highlight later.Īs expected of a Makoto Shinkai film, the artwork is beautiful. This lacking depth makes me constantly question the characters' actions throughout the film, and because I am constantly searching for a motivation for their actions besides purely as plot devices, I am effectively removed from the immersion.
It warrants a 7 simply because I felt a lack of emotional depth from the characters. The story is fairly straightforward It's very easy to guess where the story will head, but that doesn't mean to His signature metaphorical use of trains, the idea of a hopeless and distant love, and beautiful scenery really dive you emotionally into the story, even for how generic and simple it may seem. The film holds true to all the expectations of a Makoto Shinkai production, from heartfelt smiles to crying the 5th time within the last 30 minutes. I'll try to keep my review as spoiler-less as possible.
28.I watched this film at Anime Expo 2016 Los Angeles. Meanwhile a dubbed English version - a rarity in Japan - will be in theaters for two weeks beginning Jan.
Fuji took her grade-school daughter to watch the film, but she found the story too complicated to follow.Īn IMAX version of the film was released in Japan on Jan. “But my mother, who is 85, went to see it, and she couldn’t understand the story, even after I’d explained it.”Īya Fuji, another Tokyoite, also pointed out that there had been similarly themed films in the past, but said the way Your Name depicted and developed the story made her feel it could happen to her. They were handled very well in this film,” said Mizune. There have been a lot of films using those themes, but often in a cliched kind of way. “The central ideas of fate and that there is a person you are somehow connected to and destined to meet are ones that Japanese people love. But the story of Your Name was really moving and actually made me cry,” Hitomi Mizune, a Tokyo businesswoman in her 50s, told The Hollywood Reporter. “As it was an anime, I thought it would be kind of silly I don’t watch anime, I’ve never even seen one Miyazaki film. While the film’s core audience has been teenagers, many of whom have seen it multiple times, the hype around it has pulled people of all ages into theaters, though some have struggled to follow the story’s body-swapping and time-shifting elements. “It was the young audiences that recognized the greatness of director Shinkai, spreading the news about the film at great speed on social media,” said Toho CEO Yoshishige Shimatani at Tuesday’s Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan ( MPPAJ) press conference to announce last year’s box office numbers. The megahit also helped push the entire domestic box office to a record $2.09 billion (?235.5 billion) in 2016. The Hot Producer Behind Japan's Body-Swapping Blockbusterĭriven in large part by Your Name‘s massive success on a low budget, Toho’s operating profit for its first three quarters jumped by 30 percent to a record $370 million (?42.53 billion). “Because The Garden of Words took only 150 million yen, we thought no matter how hard we tried Your Name could only do 10 times that amount, so the production and promotion budgets were kept really low, smaller than an average Toho release,” Genki Kawamura, the film’s hit-maker producer, told The Hollywood Reporter in October.
The massive success of Your Name is even more remarkable when taking into account that Shinkai’s previous film ( The Garden of Words) was released on just 23 screens the story is complex and it was written by the director rather than based on an existing property. But thanks to Your Name‘s strong performance in Asia - it took more than $80 million in China and more than $20 million in South Korea - it has already surpassed Spirited Away to become the highest-earning Japanese film ever globally. The highest grossing film ever in Japan remains Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-winning Spirited Away (2002), which took ?30.4 billion, or $300 million at the same rate used for Your Name, unadjusted for inflation. (Converted at $1= ?101, the rate when Your Name was first released.) As of last weekend, Your Name had taken in $233 million (?23.56 billion) in Japan. Frozen spent 16 weeks atop the box office in 2014 - Your Name is currently at a total of 13 weeks - and finished with a quarter of a billion dollars (?25.48 billion). The last film to capture the hearts of Japanese cinemagoers to this extent was Disney’s Frozen, on whose third-highest all-time local box office record Your Name is now closing in.
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