Your Name is a stirring tale of rescue with a boisterous edge of YA mischief. It's also a love story with a swoony romantic affinity for the age-old tussle between chance and fate. The movie ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. In the anime film Your Name, Taki and Mitsuha swap bodies ...

Makoto Shinkai’s overly complicated anime feature buries an original story about body-swapping teens in a pile of science-fiction tropes. Rating: 1.5 stars out of 4.

Your Name takes place in two different parts of Japan. Taki is based in Tokyo, a city that Mitsuha desperately wants to run off to, and Mitsuha is based in a rural Japanese village in the Hida region.

LOS ANGELES, April 5 (Reuters) — A thousand-year-old Japanese poem inspired filmmaker Makoto Shinkai to create "Your Name," an animated story that weaves love and time travel into what he called a ...

What starts out as a “Freaky Friday”-type body exchange becomes a rumination on time travel, cataclysmic fate, rural-urban dynamics and, of course, a love story in novelist-turned-anime ...