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2016 · 106 min · PG

Your Name.

Directed by Makoto Shinkai · Animation, Romance, Drama

Your Name. (2016) is a Animation film, directed by Makoto Shinkai set in Tokyo and Gifu during the 2010s–2020s. It runs 106 minutes and is rated PG.

A time travel and disaster, with a romantic and melancholic tone. Themes of love & longing, fate & destiny, and memory & nostalgia play out through non linear / fractured timeline and multiple perspectives.

Composer
Akira KuwaharaSatoshi YamaguchiYojiro NodaYusuke Takeda
Cinematography
Hitomi FukuzawaMakoto Shinkai
Cast
Ryunosuke KamikiMone KamishiraishiRyo NaritaAoi YuukiNobunaga ShimazakiKaito IshikawaKanon TaniMasaki Terasoma

The world of this film

Setting

Where
TokyoGifu
Setting
UrbanRural
When
2010s2020s

Premise & themes

Premise
Time TravelDisaster
Themes
Love & LongingFate & DestinyMemory & Nostalgia
Structure
Non Linear / Fractured TimelineMultiple Perspectives
Tone
RomanticMelancholicHopeful

Shape

Protagonist
Two Hander
Pacing
Measured
Based on
Pure Fiction

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