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‘Your name’ Animated Film Surpasses 15 Billion Yen

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The animated feature film Your Name has now passed the 15 billion yen mark ( around the $150 million mark). This makes the film the fifth highest grossing animated film in Japanese history.

 In order to make this mark the film has sold over 11,842,864 tickets.-source.

While the film has surpassed The Wind Rises it is far from the being number one. Ahead of it are the Miyazaki films such as Ponyo, Howls Moving Castle, Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away.

 

Check out below to see what he film is about-

The film’s “story of miracles and love” revolves around Mitsuha and Taki. Mitsuha is a female high school student who lives in a rural town nestled deep in the mountains. Her father is the mayor and isn’t at home much, and she lives with her elementary school-aged little sister and her grandmother. Mitsuha has an honest personality, but she doesn’t like the customs of her family’s Shinto shrine, nor does she like her father participating in an election campaign. She laments that she lives in a confined rural town, and yearns for the wonderful lifestyle of living in Tokyo. Taki is a male high school student who lives in central Tokyo. He spends time with his friends, works part-time at an Italian restaurant, and is interested in architecture and fine arts. One day, Mitsuha has a dream where she is a young man. Taki also has a dream where he is a female high school student in a town in the mountains that he has never been to. What is the secret to their dreams of personal experience?

Shinkai also wrote the script for the film. Masashi Ando (Spirited Away, When Marnie Was There, Paprika) served as the animation director and Masayoshi Tanaka (anohana, The Anthem of the Heart, Toradora!) designed the characters. CoMix Wave Inc. animated the film.-Source.