An ambitious Tokyo boy and a cautious girl living in a small country town, Taki (Ryunosuke Kamiki) and Mitsuha (Mone Kamishiraishi) are worlds apart from each other. Thanks to their supernatural ...

The smash hit anime helped pick up the slack of Hollywood's share, which dropped after recent years of gains. By Gavin J Blair The Japanese box office grew 8.5 percent to a record $2.09 billion ...

The director of the hit 2016 film Your Name, Makoto Shinkai, officially has plans to announce his next big film to fans as soon as possible. Makoto Shinkai has become a huge name in anime over the ...

When Shinkai’s Your Name debuted in 2016, it was nothing short of a cultural event. The romantic fantasy brought in ¥25.17 billion ($170.7 million) in Japan, making it the country’s second-biggest ...

Early in “Your Name,” the anime blockbuster that’s conquered Japan, China, and the rest of Asia, a high-school girl named Mitsuha performs a ritual dance at her family’s Shinto shrine. Dressed in the ...