![]() ![]() And that’s not counting the storyline, which makes little sense. Perhaps it’s their independence from a family backstory that makes them seem so abstract. The quest of the film’s odd couple, Taki and Mitsuha, simply doesn’t stir the heart. It has been picked up by FUNimation in the U.S.īut for all its entertaining novelty, it is still many steps behind the magic, penetrating insights and profound humanity of the Japanese anime pantheon lead by Hayao Miyazaki and Mamoru Hosoda. Released in Japan in late August, Your Name has already grossed close to $150 million domestically and won the top animation award at Sitges, as well as being featured at the San Sebastian, Busan, Tokyo and London fests. First-rate Japanese anime is a taste that anyone can acquire in the time it takes to watch a film like this, and it should confirm Shinkai’s reputation to genre-lovers around the world, who know his poetry-inspired The Garden of Words. ![]()
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