For years, the director has been the biggest name across the entire medium, with his gorgeous visuals, lovable characters, and poignant yet relatable themes allowing each film to resonate with a global audience. An English release was licensed on May 23, 2017.Makoto Shinkai has revealed the first trailer for his upcoming film Suzume no Tojimari, which will seemingly follow in the footsteps of the critically acclaimed Your Name and Weathering With You.
In addition, Makoto Shinkai was careful to publish, two months before the release of the film, the novel from his own scenario.
The music composition was entrusted to the hit J-rock group Radwimps, and the album quickly rose to the top of the charts. The soundtrack of Your Name also explains the film's success with the Japanese public. Mitsuha and Taki live under the threat of a natural disaster - a village may be completely destroyed by a comet - which is reminiscent of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The shadow of FukushimaĪ more serious and melancholy tone is added to the humor and lightness of certain sequences. Faithful to manga culture, the story leads its heroes, through these recurring journeys through time, on a voyage of discovery that allows them to reveal themselves. But the success of Your Name isn't just that of a simple romantic comedy. Passionate about adolescence, its anxieties and questions, Makoto Shinkai introduces two protagonists in contemporary Japan who young audiences can easily identify with. Read also: Shintoism More than a high school romance Makoto Shinkai, self-taught and a great admirer of Hayao Miyazaki, explores themes already explored in his previous films: exchanges between parallel universes ( The Place Promised in our Early Days), love at a distance ( 5 Centimeters per Second), the quest for loved ones or the beauty of nature ( Children Who Chase Lost Voices), an omnipresent theme in Ghibli movies too, inherited from Shintoism. To meet, Mitsuha and Taki will have to defy the laws of time and space, and try to prevent an impending disaster.
But their destinies are linked when, after the passage of a strange comet, each teen wakes up trapped in the body of the other. Mitsuha, from the Takayama region, dreams of a busy life away from her tradition village while Taki juggles classes, his job and his group of friends. The two protagonists of the film are Mitsuha, a teenage girl in rural Gifu prefecture and Taki, a high school student in Tokyo. Released in August 2016 in Japan, Makoto Shinkai's animated film grossed 23 billion yen (~US$190 million) in Japan, becoming the first film not produced by Studio Ghibli to exceed 10 billion yen in revenue. It didn't dethrone Spirited Away, which grossed 30.4 billion yen in Japan, but the film Your Name (君の名は 'Kimi no Na Wa' in Japanese) was nonetheless a real phenomenon.
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