![]() The music composed and performed by Japanese band RADWIMPS acts in tandem with the aesthetics to shape the movie’s thematic coherence, and to amplify fantastical elements in the animated medium. However, a central idea that underpins Your Name is the tension between modernity and tradition, informed by postmodern Japan’s sense of cultural loss due to globalisation, termed mukokuseki or nationlessness (Iwabuchi 2002: 28). The fantastical premise of Your Name’s story, combined with gorgeous naturalistic animation and standout music composition, all play defining roles in the film’s success. ![]() ![]() Such widespread positive attention is rarely seen outside of films made by Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki, and Your Name has since solidified Shinkai’s position as a leading filmmaker on the animated movie landscape (Fig. Your Name is currently the highest grossing anime feature of all time, a remarkable mainstream success at the local box office and in its global reception. The film depicts the strange and wondrous journey of two high school teenagers, city boy Taki in Tokyo and countryside girl Mitsuha in rural lakeside Itomori, who are inexplicably swapping bodies with each other. ![]() Makoto Shinkai’s animated film Kimi No Na Wa, translated as Your Name, was a critical and commercial hit when it was released in 2016. ![]()
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