Japanese author and filmmaker Makoto Shinkai adapts his own 2016 YA light adult novel in this hit anime feature film that brings a fresh, nuanced approach to the classic body-swapping comedy. Two high school students who have never met—a boy named Taki and a girl named Mitsuha—suddenly wake up in one another's body and try to fake their way through a day in the life. When it happens again and again, without warning or discernable pattern, they begin leaving messages for one another. And that's just the beginning of a story that mixes metaphysics and mystery in a poetic tale of two people who never meet but are still able to change one another's lives. Your Name is a contemplative, introspective film that uses the body-swapping gimmick to explore growing up and experiencing life from another perspective. Shinkai's animation serves up delicate scenes full of wonder and grace as well as comic moments and deeply dramatic images. One of the rare anime features to also be released in American theaters, Your Name did not garner an Oscar nomination but it did pick up other awards. Presented in separate dual-language DVD and Blu-ray/DVD Combo editions, rated PG, extras include an interview with Shinkai, a behind-the-scenes featurette, and an animated filmography of other Shinkai titles. Recommended. (S. Axmaker)
Your Name
(2016) 107 min. DVD: $29.99, Blu-ray/DVD Combo: $34.99. Funimation (avail. from most distributors). Volume 33, Issue 2
Your Name
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