Kimi no Na wa.

Your Name (: 君の名は., : Kimi no Na wa.) is a 2016 youth Science fiction fantasy film written and directed by Makoto Shinkai with animation by CoMix Wave Films and distributed by Toho. Masayoshi Tanaka is the character designer while Radwimps composed the music for the film. It premiered at Anime Expo 2016 convention in Los Angeles, California on July 3, 2016, and later premiered in Japan on August 26, 2016. A novel also written by Shinkai that inspired the film was released on June 18, 2016. At Anime Expo 2016, it was announced that the film has been licensed by Funimation.

Plot
The story is set one month after a comet has fallen for the first time in a thousand years in Japan. Mitsuha, a high school girl living in the countryside, wants to live in the city because she is tired of life in the country. Then, there's Taki. He's a high school student living in Tokyo with his friends while working as a part-timer at an Italian restaurant. He also has a strong interest in fine arts involving architecture. One day, Mitsuha dreams of herself as a young man. On the other hand, Taki also has a dream where he is a female student attending high school in the countryside. What's the secret behind their dreams?

Cast

 * Ryunosuke Kamiki as Taki Tachibana (立花瀧, Tachibana Taki)
 * Mone Kamishiraishi as Mitsuha Miyamizu (宮水三葉, Miyamizu Mitsuha)
 * Masami Nagasawa as Miki Okudera
 * Etsuko Ichihara as Mitsuha's grandmother
 * Ryo Narita as Katsuhiko Teshigawara

Reception
The film was number-one on its opening weekend at the Japanese box office, with ¥930 million in gross and 688,000 admissions. Including the opening day on Friday, it grossed a total of ¥1.28 billion. It was number-one again on its second weekend, with 867,345 admissions and ¥1.16 billion in gross. As of September 5, 2016, 10 days after the film's premiere in Japan, it has grossed a total of ¥3.8 billion. It was again number-one on its third weekend, with ¥1.135 billion in gross and 852,000 admissions. By September 11, 2016, the film had grossed a total of ¥6.2 billion and had thus surpassed the distributor Toho's ¥6 billion revenue projection for the film. By September 18, the film was #1 for the fourth week in a row and had grossed ¥9.1 billion (approximately US$89 million), and was projected to become the first non-Ghibli non-series based anime movie to earn over 10 billion yen. On September 23, it was reported that the film had indeed grossed over 10 billion yen (approximately US$98 million) and that it had achieved that in only 28 days.