Films·
Your Name
Some people can change your life before you even understand who they are
Metadata
| Director | Makoto Shinkai |
| Year | 2016 |
| Writer | Makoto Shinkai |
| Stars | Ryunosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi, Ryo Narita, Aoi Yuki |
The movie in 3 sentences
- Your Name follows two teenagers, Mitsuha and Taki, who mysteriously begin swapping bodies across distance and time. What starts as a charming supernatural high-school comedy slowly turns into a romance shaped by memory, disaster, and longing. The story becomes less about finding out why the swap is happening and more about whether two people can hold onto each other across impossible separation.
- The film is about connection, fate, memory, and the ache of missing someone you may not fully remember. It captures the feeling that certain people can change your life before you even understand who they are. Its most moving idea is that love can survive as a feeling before it returns as a name.