Gary Johnson
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'Your Name' Review
Introduction In summer of 2016, Japanese filmmaker Makoto Shinkai released a film that put tears in the eyes of audiences all over the world. Your Name, or Kimi no Na wa as it’s called in its native tongue, is an animated, supernatural, romance story about two young strangers who mysteriously switch bodies. Since the film’s release over a year ago, it’s been distributed in countries across the globe and has been translated from Japanese into others languages including English, Spanish, Italian, Mandarin, German, and Brazilian. Not only has it been praised to death by audiences and critics, but people have even gone so far as to call Shinkai “The Next Miyazaki” (and in case you don’t know who that is, Miyazaki is basically Japan’s Walt Disney… a household name, kind of a big deal)! I saw quite a few articles online talking about how great this film is when it first came out, yet I avoided it for the most part because romance movies were never really my thing. But after all this time, curiosity finally got the best of me. I decided to watch it for myself and here’s what I observed (I’ll avoid any major spoilers)...
By Gary Johnson6 years ago in Geeks