Makoto Shinkai's 'Your Name' to Be Rereleased in Theaters

TapTechNews June 26 news, eight years after the premiere of director Makoto Shinkai's animated film Your Name, it has been officially announced that it will be re-released in domestic theaters. The film was released in the Chinese mainland on December 2, 2016, and currently has a Douban rating of 8.5 points. The film is set to be rereleased on July 19 this year.

For this rerun of Your Name, director Makoto Shinkai also released a video for promotional preheating.

In a small mountain village far from the metropolis, there lives Miyamizu Mitsuha, a high school girl from a family of miko. Due to reasons at school and at home, she is already full of troubles, and the strange events that have occurred in the recent period have left Mitsuha scratching her head.

I don't know since when, Mitsuha would turn into a high school boy living in Tokyo in her dreams. There are strange classmates and friends, kind seniors and bustling streets, everything is so attractive and real. On the other hand, Tachibana Taki, a high school boy living in Tokyo, always comes to the strange small mountain village in his dreams and lives a brand new life as a girl. Perhaps affected by that mysterious comet, Taki and Mitsuha exchanged identities in their dreams.

They experience each other's lives from the perspective of the other, during which there is anger, laughter and warmth. Only the two don't know that behind the identity exchange hides a major and heart-breaking secret...

TapTechNews learned from Maoyan that the cumulative box office of Your Name is 575 million yuan ($82.9 million), with a total audience of 20.686 million.