6/10/2023 0 Comments Your name. by Makoto Shinkai![]() ![]() Many of your films have that mixture of high concepts and emotional storytelling. The sci-fi and fantasy elements are there to strengthen those emotions. The focus of the audience has to be on this boy and girl, and we want the audience to love them. ![]() ![]() Shinkai: I wanted to make a boy meets girl film, but I didn’t want the meeting to come at the beginning of the film, I wanted it to come at the end. LWLies: Your Name has so many aspects to it – coming of age, romance, sci-fi, natural disasters – what was the creative starting point for you? While in the UK to present his genre-blending, gender-swapping romance in competition at the BFI London Film Festival, Shinkai spoke with LWLies about being endlessly compared to Miyazaki, crafting his own brand of emotionally charged anime, and how the Japanese earthquake of 2011 changed everything. ![]() Meet the Japanese director behind the anime smash hit Your Name.Ī bona fide box-office sensation in Japan, crowd-pleasing anime Your Name has broken into the top 10 all-time theatrical grosses in its home country, most notably scaling the heights only climbed previously by the films of industry titan Hayao Miyazaki.įor years, it has been a sort of lazy journalistic shorthand to describe director Makoto Shinkai (5 Centimeters Per Second, Journey to Agartha) as ‘the new Miyazaki’ now his latest work has surpassed the takings of Ponyo and The Wind Rises, and looks set to match those of Princess Mononoke and Howl’s Moving Castle. Makoto Shinkai: ‘You can’t be Miyazaki, you can only be the second Miyazaki’ ![]()
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