How Anime 'Your Name' Became an Unlikely Phenomenon | Hollywood Reporter: The low-budget Makoto Shinkai-directed megahit is now the highest-grossing Japanese film in history.
Makoto Shinkai's body-swapping, time-shifting anime Your Name may have missed out on an Oscar nomination, but it has been setting records both in Japan and overseas, single-handedly driving both the domestic film industry and studio-distributor Toho to record revenues last year. And it isn't finished yet.
Makoto Shinkai's body-swapping, time-shifting anime Your Name may have missed out on an Oscar nomination, but it has been setting records both in Japan and overseas, single-handedly driving both the domestic film industry and studio-distributor Toho to record revenues last year. And it isn't finished yet.