Your Name - Kimi no na wa -君の名は。| Film (2016)
Summary :
From director Makoto Shinkai, the innovative mind behind Voices of a Distant Star and 5 Centimeters Per Second, comes a beautiful masterpiece about time, the thread of fate, and the hearts of two young souls. The day the stars fell, two lives changed forever. High-schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki's body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must adjust their lives around each other. Yet, somehow, it works. They build a connection and communicate by leaving notes, messages, and more importantly, an imprint. When a dazzling comet lights up the night's sky, something shifts, and they seek each other out wanting something more - a chance to finally meet. But try as they might, something more daunting than distance prevents them. Is the string of fate between Mitsuha and Taki strong enough to bring them together, or will forces outside their control leave them forever separated?
Directed by
Makoto Shinkai
Writing Credits
Makoto Shinkai [based on his novel]
Makoto Shinkai ~~ Screenplay
Clark Cheng ~~ English script)
Cast
Ryûnosuke Kamiki ~~Taki Tachibana (voice)
Mone Kamishiraishi ~~Mitsuha Miyamizu (voice)
Ryô Narita ~~Katsuhiko Teshigawara (voice)
Aoi Yûki ~~ Sayaka Natori (voice)
Nobunaga Shimazaki ~~ Tsukasa Fujii (voice)
Kaito Ishikawa~~ Shinta Takagi (voice)
Kanon Tani ~~ Yotsuha Miyamizu (voice)
Masaki Terasoma ~~Toshiki Miyamizu (voice)
Sayaka Ohara ~~ Futaha Miyamizu (voice)
Kazuhiko Inoue ~~Taki's Father (voice)
Chafûrin ~~Teshigawara's Father (voice)
Kana Hanazawa ~~Teacher (voice)
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Synopsis :
The film opens to a wave of comets, shooting across the sky.
Two teenagers, Taki Tachibana and Mitsuha Miyamizu begin to speak, almost simultaneously. They speak of time and of dreams, and how each can be a great loss. A piece of one comet breaks off and plummets to the earth
We see Mitsuha struggle in her sleep. She calls out to Taki, asking him if he remembers.
Mitsuha wakes up. But it is not her really. It is Taki, who is freaked out to be in a girls body (though not above copping a feel on Mitsuha's breasts). Mitsuhas younger sister Yotsuha comes into her room, noticing her being weird again and tells her breakfast is ready. Taki, as Mitsuha, disrobes and looks in the mirror, freaked out by the strange dream he keeps having; waking up as a girl.
Going downstairs, apparently back to her normal self, Mitsuha eats with, Hitoha, who is their grandmother and guardian. Hitoha and Yotsuha note that Mitsuha had been acting weird the day before. They watch a broadcast that notes that a comet not seen for over a thousand years will be able to be seen in the sky in a months time.
Mitsuha walks to school and meets up with her friends Katsuhiko and Sayaka. As they walk, they see a campaign speech by the local mayor, who is up for reelection. As she walks by, the man screams at Mitsuha to stand up straight. We realize that the mayor is actually Mitsuhas father, estranged from the rest of the family for unknown reasons.
At school, Mitsuha flips through a notebook, and finds a note. It reads, "Who Are You?"
Later, Mitsuha learns that the day before she had forgotten her classroom and where her locker was. This information shocks and surprises her. Sayaka chalks it up to stress Mitsuha is under to perform a Miko ritual for the family shrine, something Mitsuha doesn't want to be reminded of. As the three walk home, they bemoan how small their town of Itomori is; there are no restaurants, bookstores, or social scene. Mitsuha herself dreams of graduating school so she can move to Tokyo.
Katsuhiko suggests they go to a café. The girls scream out excited. In actuality, it is just a vending machine nearby a park bench. Mitsuha goes home, leaving Sayaka with Katsuhiko. Sayaka asks him about his future plans. Katsuhiko says he will most likely just stay in town like he always has after graduation.
Mitsuha, Yotsuha, and Hitoha practice the art of Kumihimo (braid making). Hitoha tells them the importance of what they are creating.
The mayor meets with Katsuhiko's father, who is part of the local construction union, in order to get the support of his men for the upcoming election. Katsuhiko is told by his father that he will work with them the following weekend to his annoyance.
The next night, Mitsuha and Yotsuha perform the ritual for their shrine with includes ritualized dancing and the creation of Kuchikamizake; a sake in which someone chews rice into a paste and spits it back into a bowl, allowing it to ferment into alcohol. A few of Mitsuhas classmates walk by the ritual and mock her, to her annoyance.
As they walk home Yotsuha tells her big sister not to take it so personally, but Mitsuha is losing patience with her life. "I hate this town!" she screams out. "I hate this life! Please make me a handsome Tokyo boy in my next life!"...
The next day, Mitsuha wakes up but not as herself. She is in Taki's body. She is quite disturbed to be a boy and all that entails physically. Finding out she has overslept, she quickly gets dressed and heads out, suddenly struck that she is finally walking around Tokyo ....
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