your name
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Your Name Director Makoto Shinkai’s Next Movie Gets A Beautiful, Cryptic First Look
Japanese animator and director Makoto Shinkai had been a name in the animation space for decades thanks to works like She and Her Cat and Voices of a Distant Star. But it was 2016’s Your Name, and 2019’s Weathering With You, that helped turn international viewers onto his filmography. His next movie Suzume no Tojimari…
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Makoto Shinkai On Your Name’s Success, And The Climate Message At The Heart Of His New Movie
Your Name, to the delight of millions the world over, made huge waves in 2016″putting esteemed anime director Makoto Shinkai on the international map, despite a career in the industry spanning over two decades. How does an artist follow up a career-defining piece of work? For Shinkai, it all came back to remembering his audience.
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Weathering With You Is A Good, But Flawed Follow Up To Your Name
When originally released in 2016, the acclaimed Your Name became the highest-grossing anime in Japan ever. Today, its follow-up, Weathering With You, was released in Japan. The movie shares many thematic and stylistic themes with Your Name. The result is good but flawed.
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The Your Name Remake Will Be Americanised, According To Its Screenwriter
Ever since that whole Ghost in the Shell live-action debacle, audiences have been wary of how the J.J. Abrams-produced Your Name remake would adapt its source material. Would the live-action film stay close to Makoto Shinkai’s original film, or would it do the thing that most American anime adaptations do and, well, make it American?…