Your Name (2016)
(Kimi no na wa)
Country: JAP
Technical: col 106m
Director: Makoto Shinkai
Cast: animé
Synopsis:
A girl living in a coastal town and a Tokyo boy exchange places when they are asleep and live parts of their lives as their counterpart selves, but little do they realize there is a three-year delay in their interconnectivity, or that the path of a passing comet has a role to play.
Review:
Almost too mystically convoluted for its own good, this has to have its characters do far too much explaining out loud. But the contrived idea is touchingly realized by the animators, with the young lovers sensing their 'lost relationship' intuitively from the outset (there's a lot of spontaneous weeping). There are some spectacular animations of raindrops, incidentally, topping off a typically expert Japanese production.
(Kimi no na wa)
Country: JAP
Technical: col 106m
Director: Makoto Shinkai
Cast: animé
Synopsis:
A girl living in a coastal town and a Tokyo boy exchange places when they are asleep and live parts of their lives as their counterpart selves, but little do they realize there is a three-year delay in their interconnectivity, or that the path of a passing comet has a role to play.
Review:
Almost too mystically convoluted for its own good, this has to have its characters do far too much explaining out loud. But the contrived idea is touchingly realized by the animators, with the young lovers sensing their 'lost relationship' intuitively from the outset (there's a lot of spontaneous weeping). There are some spectacular animations of raindrops, incidentally, topping off a typically expert Japanese production.
(Kimi no na wa)
Country: JAP
Technical: col 106m
Director: Makoto Shinkai
Cast: animé
Synopsis:
A girl living in a coastal town and a Tokyo boy exchange places when they are asleep and live parts of their lives as their counterpart selves, but little do they realize there is a three-year delay in their interconnectivity, or that the path of a passing comet has a role to play.
Review:
Almost too mystically convoluted for its own good, this has to have its characters do far too much explaining out loud. But the contrived idea is touchingly realized by the animators, with the young lovers sensing their 'lost relationship' intuitively from the outset (there's a lot of spontaneous weeping). There are some spectacular animations of raindrops, incidentally, topping off a typically expert Japanese production.