Your Name. (2016) on Netflix
TV-PG20161h 46mAnimationDramaFantasy
Mitsuha Miyamizu, a high school girl in the rural town of Itomori, dreams of Tokyo. Taki Tachibana, a Tokyo student and waiter, lives there. One morning they wake in each other's bodies.
- Netflix3.9/5
- IMDb8.4/10405,221 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes98%
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In Tokyo, Taki Tachibana balances high school with a part-time job at an Italian restaurant, and he sketches buildings in hopes of becoming an architect. In the rural town of Itomori, Mitsuha Miyamizu lives with her younger sister Yotsuha and their grandmother Hitoha; her estranged father is the mayor. Mitsuha performs shrine rituals, including weaving braids and preparing kuchikamizake, and she wishes she could move to Tokyo. One day the two teenagers wake up in each other's bodies. The switches keep happening at random, so they leave notes on phones and paper to manage each other's routines. Neither knows why it is happening, and each tries to keep the other's life on track.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Your Name. (2016)
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- Makoto Shinkai conceived Your Name after his July 2011 visit to the fishing village of Yuriage in Natori, which had been devastated by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami; reflecting on the destruction, he thought "this could have been my town" and imagined a film where the residents' positions were swapped with those of the viewers.
- Your Name became the first anime film not directed by Hayao Miyazaki to earn more than $100 million at the Japanese box office.
- Nekotofu, the creator of the manga Onimai: I'm Now Your Sister!, cites Your Name as one of his influences, saying that the film's popularity motivated the series' creation.
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