6/5/2023 0 Comments Kimi no na wa your name 2016Ever since his earlier features ( 5 Centimeters per Second (2007), Children Who Chase Lost Voices (2011), and The Garden of Words (2013)), forty-four-year-old director Makoto Shinkai has been anointed as an heir apparent to Miyazaki. It was so popular in the UK last year that, according to Sharuna Warner of, it received an IMAX release, a first for an anime title. Prognosticators estimate that it's made over ¥15bn (nearly 134 million USD) in Japan and amassed $355 million worldwide in ticket sales (surpassing Spirited Away as the top earner in anime). It did respectable business in the US (grossing over $5 million) but had a monumental impact in its native land. It received a very favorable response at the Busan, London, San Sebastian, Tokyo film festivals and also made a small splash at Anime Expo last year in Los Angeles. ( Kimi no na wa.) has become not just an animated mega-hit but also something of a global cinematic phenomenon.
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