60-491: Hida or Hida Furukawa ( 飛騨市 , [Hida-shi, Hida Furukawa 飛騨古川] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script ( help ) ) is a city located in Gifu , Japan . As of 1 December 2017, the city had an estimated population of 24,726, and a population density of 31 persons per km, in 8,905 households. The total area of the city was 792.53 square kilometres (306.00 sq mi). The official kanji for
120-553: A chance to save Mitsuha and the entire town, Taki convinces Mitsuha's friends to help him broadcast an emergency signal, evacuating Itomori before the meteor fragments strike. He then heads to the shrine, where Mitsuha has just woken up in Taki's body. As twilight falls; their timelines cross, allowing them to meet in person for the first time. Taki returns Mitsuha's ribbon, and they attempt to write their names on each other's palms, but twilight ends before Mitsuha can write hers. She returns to
180-476: A film in which the positions of the people in Yuriage would be swapped with the viewers. The sketches that Shinkai drew during this visit have been shown in exhibitions. In Makoto Shinkai 's proposal sent to Toho on September 14, 2014, the film was originally titled Yume to Shiriseba ( 夢と知りせば , If I Knew It Was a Dream ) , derived from a passage in a waka poem attributed to Ono no Komachi . Its title
240-607: A fortuitous evacuation drill, but cannot remember why. One day, he glimpses Mitsuha, who has moved to Tokyo; they race to find each other. As they pass the stairs of a shrine, Taki calls out to Mitsuha, and the two simultaneously ask each other for their name. The idea of the story came to Shinkai after he visited Yuriage, Natori, Miyagi Prefecture in July 2011, after the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred. He said, "This could have been my town". He said that he wanted to make
300-488: A gross of $ 8.2 million , becoming the first Japanese film since Howl's Moving Castle to reach number one in the country. The film eventually drew 3.81 million admissions in South Korea and grossed $ 23.6 million, making it the highest-grossing anime film in South Korea until it was surpassed by The First Slam Dunk and Suzume in 2023. In Thailand it grossed ฿ 44.1 million ( $ 1.23 million ). As of December 26,
360-452: A municipality to be designated as a city: The designation is approved by the prefectural governor and the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications . A city can theoretically be demoted to a town or village when it fails to meet any of these conditions, but such a demotion has not happened to date. The least populous city, Utashinai, Hokkaido , has a population of three thousand, while
420-484: A panic, he races to the shrine and drinks the kuchikamizake . He has a vision and recalls that Mitsuha once came to Tokyo to find him; though he did not recognize her, she gave him a red kumihimo ribbon he has worn ever since. Taki awakens in Mitsuha's body on the morning of the festival, where Hitoha speaks directly to him, explaining that the body-switching phenomenon has always been in their family. Realizing he has
480-499: A positive opinion of the film, saying that it was "pretty but too complicated". Mike Toole from Anime News Network listed it as the third-best anime film of all time. John Musker and Ron Clements , directors of the Disney animated films The Great Mouse Detective , The Little Mermaid , Aladdin , Hercules , Treasure Planet , The Princess and the Frog , and Moana , praised
540-504: A short runtime of 75 minutes. According to Kantar Media statistics, the first free-to-air broadcast of the film received an audience rating of 9.2% while the AGB Nielsen NUTAM statistics, it received a 3.1% audience rating. On April 9, 2020, as part of its Holy Week presentation, the film was aired again with minor cuts for content and longer runtime of 102 minutes (excluding commercials in its 2-hour timeslot) and it immediately became
600-500: A special program dedicated to Makoto Shinkai as well as his previous works were also broadcast on the same channel. It also received a Japanese terrestrial television premiere on January 3, 2018, via TV Asahi and the initial broadcast received a 17.4% audience rating. Your Name has made its first premiere on Philippine television through free-to-air broadcaster ABS-CBN as well as its HD television service on February 18, 2018, but in edited form due to being cut for commercials with
660-538: A town in the same prefecture, Otofuke, Hokkaido , has over forty thousand. Under the Act on Special Provisions concerning Merger of Municipalities ( 市町村の合併の特例等に関する法律 , Act No. 59 of 2004) , the standard of 50,000 inhabitants for the city status has been eased to 30,000 if such population is gained as a result of a merger of towns and/or villages , in order to facilitate such mergers to reduce administrative costs. Many municipalities gained city status under this eased standard. On
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#1732855374089720-508: A trending topic through social media platforms whereas Makoto Shinkai himself thanked the viewers of the ABS-CBN broadcast of the film. Your Name became a huge commercial success, especially in Japan, where it grossed ¥25.17 billion . The film achieved the second-largest gross for a domestic film in Japan, behind Spirited Away , and the fourth-largest ever, behind Titanic and Frozen . It
780-507: Is 10.6 °C (51.1 °F). The average annual rainfall is 2,049.7 mm (80.70 in) with July as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 23.5 °C (74.3 °F), and lowest in January, at around −1.5 °C (29.3 °F). Per Japanese census data, the population of Hida has decreased steadily over the past 50 years. The area around Hida Furukawa
840-428: Is a 2016 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Makoto Shinkai , produced by CoMix Wave Films , and distributed by Toho . It depicts the story of high school students Taki Tachibana and Mitsuha Miyamizu, who suddenly began to swap bodies despite having never met, unleashing chaos on each other's lives. The film was inspired by the frequency of natural disasters in Japan . Your Name premiered at
900-407: Is a Japanese light novel written by Makoto Shinkai. It is a novelization of the animated film of the same name, which was directed by Shinkai. It was published in Japan by Kadokawa on June 18, 2016, a month prior to the film premiere. By September 2016, the light novel had sold around 1,029,000 copies. An official visual guide was also released. The novel sold over 1.3 million copies, while
960-574: Is a local administrative unit in Japan . Cities are ranked on the same level as towns ( 町 , machi ) and villages ( 村 , mura ) , with the difference that they are not a component of districts ( 郡 , gun ) . Like other contemporary administrative units, they are defined by the Local Autonomy Law of 1947. Article 8 of the Local Autonomy Law sets the following conditions for
1020-468: Is an annual festival of the Keta Wakamiya Shrine. It attracts many tourists every year, especially on the night of the 19th when the large drum float, Okoshi-Daiko, is paraded through the town by hundreds of half-naked men. Hida Furukawa was featured in several key locations in the popular 2016 animated film, Kimi no Na Wa (君の名は, Your Name ). Cities of Japan A city ( 市 , shi )
1080-639: Is the first anime not directed by Hayao Miyazaki to earn more than $ 100 million (~¥10 billion) at the Japanese box office. It topped the box office in Japan for a record-breaking 12 non-consecutive weekends. It held the number-one position for nine consecutive weekends before being toppled by Death Note: Light Up the New World in the last weekend of October. It returned to the top for another three weeks before finally being dethroned by Hollywood blockbuster Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them . The success of
1140-592: Is under Hida Takayama's precints. Hida Furukawa has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city legislature of 14 members The main two traditional economies in the city are the production of sake and traditional Japanese candles. The Furukawa area of the city is known for both of these crafts, while the Kamioka section is mainly known for its sake production. Hida has five public elementary schools, two public middle schools and one combined elementary/middle school operated by
1200-466: The 2016 Anime Expo in Los Angeles on July 3, 2016, and was theatrically released in Japan on August 26, 2016; it was released internationally by several distributors in 2017. It features the voices of Ryunosuke Kamiki and Mone Kamishiraishi , with animation direction by Masashi Ando , character design by Masayoshi Tanaka, and its orchestral score and soundtrack composed by Radwimps . A light novel of
1260-576: The Heian period novel Torikaebaya Monogatari , and Greg Egan 's short story The Safe-Deposit Box . Shinkai also cited Interstellar (2014) by Christopher Nolan as an influence. While the town of Itomori, one of the film's settings, is fictional, the film drew inspirations from real-life locations that provided a backdrop for the town. Such locations include the city of Hida in Gifu Prefecture and its library, Hida City Library. Yojiro Noda ,
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#17328553740891320-448: The Shinto shrine on a mountain near Itomori, leaving an offering of kuchikamizake made with Mitsuha's saliva. Hitoha explains that God is the ruler over both time and the connections between humans. Mitsuha tells Taki that the comet Tiamat is expected to pass nearest to Earth on the day of the autumn festival . The next day, Taki goes on a date with Miki in his own body; Miki enjoys
1380-451: The "city code" ( shisei , 市制) of 1888 during the "Great Meiji mergers" ( Meiji no daigappei , 明治の大合併) of 1889. The -shi replaced the previous urban districts /"wards/cities" (-ku) that had existed as primary subdivisions of prefectures besides rural districts (-gun) since 1878. Initially, there were 39 cities in 1889: only one in most prefectures, two in a few (Yamagata, Toyama, Osaka, Hyōgo, Fukuoka), and none in some – Miyazaki became
1440-644: The Philippines on December 14 and it immediately became the country's highest-grossing animated movie for the year. In Hong Kong, the film opened on November 11, and earned HK$ 6,149,917 (about US$ 792,806) in three days. The film premiered in Taiwan on October 21 and earned NT$ 64 million (about US$ 2 million) in its first week while staying in the first position in the box office earnings ranking. As of October 31, it has earned NT$ 52,909,581 (about US$ 1.666 million) in Taipei alone. It
1500-453: The Year . A live-action remake is in development at Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot . Mitsuha Miyamizu is a high school student in the rural town of Itomori, Japan. Bored of the town, she wishes to be a Tokyo boy in her next life. Soon, she begins to intermittently switch bodies with Taki Tachibana, a boy from Tokyo. On certain days, Taki and Mitsuha wake up in each other's bodies and must live
1560-519: The biggest 2D animated opening in the country. It also held the record for the highest-grossing non-Hollywood foreign film in China, up until it was surpassed by two Indian films , Dangal and Secret Superstar , in May 2017 and February 2018, respectively. Then, on July 19, 2024, it was released again in China. The film was number-one on its opening five days in South Korea, with 1.18 million admissions and
1620-566: The city government. The city has two public high schools operated by the Gifu Prefectural Board of Education. Tokyo University 's Super-Kamiokande neutrino observatory together with the data processing centre ( Kamioka Observatory ) has been located in Kamioka since 2002. [REDACTED] JR Tōkai – Takayama Main Line From Takayama [Nohi bus] The Furukawa Festival is held annually on April 19 and 20. This traditional event
1680-592: The city is actually 飛驒, which uses the old rendering of the 騨 character. However, the 驒 character is not included on the official list of usable characters (as decided by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications ), so the 騨 character is often used outside of the city. Hida is the northernmost city in Gifu Prefecture, and is located in the northern part of the Hida Highlands bordering on Toyama Prefecture to
1740-444: The collector's edition sold 125,982 units and the special edition sold 94,079 units. The DVD Standard Edition placed first, selling 215,963. Your Name is the first anime to place three Blu-ray Disc releases in the top 10 of Oricon 's overall Blu-ray Disc chart for 2 straight weeks. In 2017, the film generated ¥6,532,421,094 ( $ 58,238,797 ) in media revenue from physical home video , soundtrack and book sales in Japan. Overseas,
1800-420: The creator of the manga series Onimai: I'm Now Your Sister! , cited Your Name as an influence, saying that the popularity of the film motivated the creation of the series. According to Crunchyroll , the phenomenal success of Your Name helped push non- Ghibli anime into a more mainstream place in Japan, and changed trends in not only how anime films were made but also how they were promoted. Your Name
1860-488: The date but says she can tell Taki is preoccupied with someone else. Realizing he is falling for Mitsuha, Taki attempts to call her on the phone but cannot reach her. The body-switching stops as inexplicably as it started. Taki, Miki, and their friend Tsukasa travel to Hida to search for Mitsuha. Taki does not know the name of Mitsuha's village, so he sketches the landscape from memory; a restaurant owner in Takayama recognizes
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1920-449: The entire day as the other, reverting when they go to sleep at night. The two set up ground rules for sharing their bodies, communicating via messages on paper, their phones, and their skin. Mitsuha (in Taki's body) sets Taki up on a date with his coworker, Miki Okudera, while Taki (in Mitsuha's body) helps Mitsuha become more popular at school. While in Mitsuha's body, Taki accompanies Mitsuha's grandmother Hitoha and younger sister Yotsuha to
1980-416: The factors behind its success at the box office. The film's soundtrack was the runner-up in the "Best Soundtrack" category at the 2016 Newtype Anime Awards , and the song "Zenzenzense" was the runner-up in the "Best Theme Song Category". The film premiered at the 2016 Anime Expo convention in Los Angeles, California on July 3, 2016, and later was released theatrically in Japan on August 26, 2016. The film
2040-426: The film also extended beyond Japan. In China, it became the highest-grossing Japanese film in the world's second-largest movie market on December 17, 2016. It has grossed $ 81.3 million in China and is the highest-grossing 2D animated film in the country. Its opening screened in over 7,000 theaters. It made an estimated $ 10.9 million on its opening day from 66,000 screenings and attracting over 2.77 million admissions,
2100-424: The film for its beauty and originality. Despite the praise he received, Makoto Shinkai insisted that the film is not as good as it could have been: "There are things we could not do, Masashi Ando [Director of Animation] wanted to keep working [on] but had to stop us for lack of money ... For me, it's incomplete, unbalanced. The plot is fine but the film is not at all perfect. Two years was not enough". Nekotofu,
2160-593: The film grossed over $ 10.5 million from DVD and Blu-ray sales in the United States as of April 2022 . In the United Kingdom, it was 2017's second best-selling foreign language film on home video (below Operation Chromite ) and again 2018's second best-selling foreign language film (below My Neighbor Totoro ). The Japanese television broadcast of Your Name was premiered on November 4, 2017, through satellite television broadcaster Wowow . In addition,
2220-418: The film has a score of 81 out of 100 based on 26 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". Mark Schilling of The Japan Times gave the film a rating of 4 out of 5 and praised the film's animation for its "blend of gorgeous, realistic detail and emotionally grounded fantasy". He also described the film's "over-deliver[y]" of "the comedy of adolescent embarrassment and awkwardness" and its ending for being "To
2280-566: The film has grossed US$ 771,945 in Australia. and US$ 95,278 in New Zealand. On a December 20 blog post, the Australian distributor Madman stated that the film had made over AU$ 1,000,000 in the Australian box office alone before closing its limited release run. In the United States and Canada, the film grossed $ 5,017,246. In the United Kingdom, it grossed £500,000 ( $ 675,000 ) in 2016, making it
2340-543: The film's distribution in Japan. The film was being written by Eric Heisserer, who revealed that the Japanese right holders want it to be made from the western point of view. In February 2019, Marc Webb signed on to direct the remake. The film will be about a young Native American woman living in a rural area and a young man from Chicago who discover they are magically and intermittently swapping bodies. In September 2020, Deadline Hollywood reported that Lee Isaac Chung had taken over as both writer and director, working off
2400-489: The last prefecture to contain its first city in 1924. In Okinawa -ken and Hokkai-dō which were not yet fully equal prefectures in the Empire, major urban settlements remained organized as urban districts until the 1920s: Naha-ku and Shuri-ku, the two urban districts of Okinawa were only turned into Naha -shi and Shuri-shi in May 1921, and six -ku of Hokkaidō were converted into district-independent cities in August 1922. By 1945,
2460-428: The lead vocalist of the Japanese rock band Radwimps , composed the theme music of Your Name . Director Makoto Shinkai requested him to compose its music "in a way that the music will (supplement) the dialogue or monologue of the characters". Your Name features the following songs performed by Radwimps: The soundtrack of the film was well received by both audiences and critics alike and is acknowledged as being one of
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2520-687: The north. The majority of the area of the city is forested, with many mountains exceeding 1,000 meters within the city borders. The northeastern edge of the Hida Mountain range exceeds 2,000 meters. Most of the population is concentrated along river terraces along the Jinzū River and the Takahara River . The city has a climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and mild winters ( Köppen climate classification Dfa ). The average annual temperature in Hida
2580-432: The novel and visual guide sold over 2.5 million copies combined. An audiobook adaptation of its novel will be published by Yen Audio in July 2024. On September 27, 2017, producer J. J. Abrams and screenwriter Eric Heisserer announced that they were working on a live-action remake of Your Name to be released by Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot , alongside the original film's producers, Toho , who will handle
2640-494: The number of cities countrywide had increased to 205. After WWII , their number almost doubled during the "great Shōwa mergers" of the 1950s and continued to grow so that it surpassed the number of towns in the early 21st century (see the List of mergers and dissolutions of municipalities in Japan ). As of October 1 2018, there are 792 cities of Japan. Your Name Your Name ( Japanese : 君の名は。 , Hepburn : Kimi no Na wa. )
2700-556: The opening film of the "Makoto Shinkai Film Festival" on May 19, 2023. M Pictures released it on November 10 in Thailand, and earned 22,996,714 baht (about US$ 649,056) in four days. Indonesian film distributor Encore Films announced that it would premiere the film in Indonesia on December 7. Cinema chain CGV Blitz also revealed that it would screen the film. Pioneer Films screened the film in
2760-448: The other hand, the municipalities recently gained the city status purely as a result of increase of population without expansion of area are limited to those listed in List of former towns or villages gained city status alone in Japan . The Cabinet of Japan can designate cities of at least 200,000 inhabitants to have the status of core city , or designated city . These statuses expand the scope of administrative authority delegated from
2820-543: The prefectural government to the city government. Tokyo , Japan's capital, existed as a city until 1943, but is now legally classified as a special type of prefecture called a metropolis ( 都 , to ) . The 23 special wards of Tokyo , which constitute the core of the Tokyo metropolitan area, each have an administrative status analogous to that of cities. Tokyo also has several other incorporated cities, towns and villages within its jurisdiction. Cities were introduced under
2880-524: The same name , also written by Shinkai, was published a month prior to the film's premiere. The film received widespread critical acclaim, with praise for its story, animation, music, visuals, and emotional weight. Grossing over US$ 400 million worldwide after rerelease, it became the second highest-grossing Japanese film of all time, breaking numerous box office records, unadjusted for inflation. It dethroned Hayao Miyazaki 's Oscar-winning anime Spirited Away by earning $ 400 million after rerelease, becoming
2940-544: The second highest-grossing Japanese animated film, behind Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train 's $ 507 million worldwide collection. It received several accolades, including the Best Animated Feature at the 2016 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards , the 49th Sitges Film Festival , and the 71st Mainichi Film Awards ; it was also nominated for the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of
3000-470: The surprise of no one who has ever seen a Japanese seishun eiga (youth drama)". Reception outside of Japan was also very positive. Mark Kermode called the film his ninth favorite film to be released in the United Kingdom in 2016. US reviews were mostly positive. The New York Times described it as "a wistfully lovely Japanese tale", while David Sims of The Atlantic said it was "a dazzling new work of anime". Furthermore, The Boston Globe had
3060-472: The town as Itomori and offers to take Taki and his friends. When they arrive, they find the town almost entirely decimated by fragments that fell from Tiamat. Since the comet passed three years earlier, Taki realizes that he and Mitsuha were separated by three years, her living in 2013 and he in 2016. He finds Mitsuha's name among the 500 people killed by the comet's impact. Taki begins to lose his memories of Mitsuha, seeing her messages disappear from his phone. In
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#17328553740893120-433: The town of Furukawa and the villages of Kawai and Miyagawa were created. The modern city of Hida Furukawa was established on February 1, 2004, from the merger of these municipalities with the town of Kamioka . In this region there is always a disambiguation between Hida Furukawa and Hida Takayama or Takayama city. Even tho Furukawa has is own municipality, Takayama is a mayor city in the area after Gifu city, and Furukawa
3180-429: The village to see that the evacuation plan failed but convinces her father, the mayor, to order an evacuation. Beginning to forget Taki, she discovers that he wrote "I love you" on her hand instead of his name. Taki awakens in his own time with no memory. Five years later, Taki is a university graduate struggling to find a job. He is obsessed with the impact of Tiamat, when the villagers of Itomori were miraculously saved by
3240-506: The year's fifth highest-grossing non-English and non- Hindi film in the UK. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 98% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 119 reviews, with an average rating of 8.2/10. The site's critics consensus reads, "As beautifully animated as it is emotionally satisfying, Your Name adds another outstanding chapter to writer-director Makoto Shinkai's filmography." On Metacritic ,
3300-433: Was later changed to Kimi no Musubime ( きみの結びめ , Your Connection ) and Kimi wa Kono Sekai no Hanbun ( きみはこの世界のはんぶん , You Are Half of This World ) before becoming Kimi no Na wa . On December 31, 2014, Shinkai announced that he had been spending his days writing storyboard for this film. Inspiration for the story came from works including Shūzō Oshimi 's Inside Mari , Rumiko Takahashi 's Ranma ½ ,
3360-528: Was offered in Regular, Special, and Collector's editions. Funimation announced on July 1 at Anime Expo 2017 that the film would be released on Blu-ray and DVD by the end of 2017 but did not specify a date. At Otakon 2017, they announced they are releasing the movie in both Standard and Limited Edition Blu-Ray and DVD Combo Packs on November 7, 2017. In its first week, the Blu-ray standard edition sold 202,370 units,
3420-495: Was part of traditional Hida Province . During the Edo period , the whole Hida province was tenryō territory under the direct control of the Tokugawa shogunate . During the post- Meiji restoration whole Japan was under a massive westernization and new reforms, the area was organised into Yoshiki District, Gifu . On July 1, 1889, with the establishment of the modern municipalities system,
3480-602: Was released in 92 countries. In order to qualify for the Academy Awards , the film was released for one week (December 2–8, 2016) in Los Angeles. In Southeast Asian countries, this movie was screened as well. Purple Plan streamed an English and Chinese subtitled trailer for the film and premiered the film in Singapore on November 3, and in Malaysia on November 8, with daily screenings onwards. In India, PVR released Your Name as
3540-576: Was released in Chinese theatres by Huaxia Film Distribution on December 2, 2016. The film was released in Australian cinemas on limited release on November 24, 2016, by Madman Entertainment in both its original Japanese and an English dub. Madman also released the film in New Zealand on December 1, 2016. The film was screened in France on December 28. The film was also released in the United Kingdom on November 18, 2016, distributed by Anime Limited . The film
3600-544: Was released in North American theaters on April 7, 2017, distributed by Funimation . In Germany the film was screened in over 150 cinemas in January 2018, with the first day being completely sold out. It reached the Top 10 movies that weekend. Due to the high demand, additional screening days were arranged. Your Name was released in 4K UHD Blu-ray , Blu-ray , and DVD on July 26, 2017, in Japan by Toho Pictures. The release
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