Despite being disallowed the opportunity to win a Golden Globe, popular body-swapping romance anime film Kimi no Na wa has achieved an accolade of its own after all, as the movie has reportedly generated more proceeds than even Miyazaki’s beloved Spirited Away, which held the title of “highest grossing anime film” for 15 years.
Kimi no Na wa (which ran not only in Japan but all around the world) amassed ¥33.93 billion at the international box office, surpassing Spirited Away’s ¥32.96 billion by a slim margin – in addition, the movie’s run in Japan accumulated ¥22.4 billion, making it the country’s 3rd highest grossing movie of all time.
Makoto Shinkai (the writer and director for Kimi no Na wa) has unwillingly become a recipient of the title “the new Miyazaki” as a result of his success, something the established man regards as an over-exaggeration considering he “doesn’t even want any more people seeing his film” – possibly suggesting that the man somehow does not see the film as quite worthy of its astronomical receipts.
“Despite being disallowed the opportunity to win a Golden Globe”
In America anything that is animated 2D is automatically disqualified even if this film could run circles around anything their studios came out with in the last year.
Any news on when will the BluRay version be released?
When it’s off the theaters in Japan. They’ve been holding off on the BD cuz of that. A popular movie in Japan can run for upwards of a year at a time in the theaters.
You frustrated bro, I don’t care it doesn’t say anything about it in the rules, why are you so maaad.
Did they censor the boob-related content from the Western releases? That s♥♥t is basically illegal in the West.
West? You mean America? Cuz nothing got censored in European releases.
maybe he doesn’t want to be called the next miyazaki is because he doesn’t want to be titled by as an old cynical man who flip flops out of retirement and who’s OPINION (cant stress that enough) is treated like the be all end all gospel by rose tinted glasses wearing people.
I don’t know, they like to ignore the stuff hes said about women and/or sweep it under the rug.
I’ve watched some of both their films, and I don’t see how he’s even remotely like Miyazaki, aside from the fact that they both make animated films.
Why dont they start calling him the “next Hollywood”, since they both make films? Why don’t they just respect him as himself, instead of trying to slap someone else’s name on him?