Funimation Licenses Makoto Shinkai's your name. Film for Theaters, Home Video (Updated) 

Funimation Licenses Makoto Shinkai\'s your name. Film for Theaters, Home Video (Updated)

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World Premiere & Panel," reported at the end of the panel that

(Kimi no Namae wa.) film for release in North America. The same event hosted Shinkai at the world premiere of the film, just four days after Shinkai completed production. The audience gave the film three standing ovations.

Boy: I\'ve been searching for something for a while.

Text: A high school boy who lives in the heart of the city - Taki

Mitsuha: The guys are starting! I\'ve gotta watch out for my skirt.

Text: The switched up daily life of two people who would never have met each other.

Taki: Don\'t mess with my relationships, alright?

Text: The dream that they should have seen.

Operator Voice: The number you have dialed is out of coverage area...

Mitsuha: If we don\'t do anything, everyone will die tonight.

Text: A story of a miraculous day when the stars fell.

Grandmother: Dreams eventually disappear when you wake up.

Taki: Don\'t worry. I\'m sure we\'ll make it.

Taki: I had been thinking to tell you that wherever you are in the world, I\'m going to go and see you no matter what!

Taki: The scene looked like something out of a dream.

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?

(Top row, from left to right in image above)

Umi) plays Miki, an older schoolmate whom Taki admires, and

(Bottom row, from left to right in image above)

play Mitsuha\'s classmates Katsuhiko Teshigawara and Sayaka Natori, respectively.

play Taki\'s classmates Tsukasa Fujii and Shinta Takagi, respectively. Child actor

plays Mitsuha\'s younger sister Yotsuba Miyamizu.

Shinkai published the original novel that inspired the film on June 18, ahead of the film\'s opening. Shinkai has previously written novels tied to his

films have received novelizations by different authors.

confirmed that it will release the film in theaters and on home video.

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