Kimi No Na Wa / Your Name Dethrones Spirited Away as Highest-Grossing Anime Film
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[url]http://comicbook.com/anime/2017/01/16/kimi-no-na-wa-becomes-highest-grossing-anime-film-ever/[/url]
[QUOTE]Kimi no Na wa -- or Your Name in English -- has been praised and breaking records all over the world since its release last year, and it just broke another one. The film has officially outgrossed Spirited Away, which was the most successful film in Japanese History, having grossed $289 million worldwide.
Your Name is now officially the highest grossing anime film of all time, and has currently grossed over $290 million in the international box office.
Most of the money came from Japan, earning $192.5 million, and it is currently the 3rd highest grossing film of all time in Japan. The film is also a huge success in China, in which it grossed $81 million, pushing it to become the highest grossing Japanese film in China. It also was very popular in South Korea, helping push it towards it international success.[/QUOTE]
[video=youtube;xU47nhruN-Q]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU47nhruN-Q[/video]
[URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlN0a8wTAds"]Chris Stuckmann[/URL] also did a review on it if your into that youtuber's movie reviews
[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;51683008]I heard about this movie through Chris Stuckmann giving it an A+ and my best friend just watched it last week and said it was nothing short of incredible.
I really need to check this out.[/QUOTE]
it hasn't really even had a proper american/canadian/european/etc. release yet, only a limited oscar release and a South Korea/Japan/China Release.
there isnt even a proper pirated copy of it so literally no one outside of the above releases can actually watch it properly.
probably gonna explode profit wise if that happens
It get praise everywhere but there is practically no way to see this movie outside of Japan. It is so infuriating.
I just want to watch this movie.
It's honestly an incredible movie. It did an oscar qualifying run in LA last year, so i reckon it'll get nominated. It won't win though, because the academy is retarded when i comes to the animation category. One of my favorite movies of last year.
I watched it along with my weeb group for the sake of hanging out, but ho boy, didn't expect the movie to be really damn good. Would've watched twice or thrice more if I wasn't busy.
Didn't shed any tears, but it did left me thinking for a week or two afterwards which is something I've never seen happen with other movies.
[QUOTE=The Aussie;51683020]It's honestly an incredible movie. It did an oscar qualifying run in LA last year, so i reckon it'll get nominated. It won't win though, because the academy is retarded when i comes to the animation category. One of my favorite movies of last year.[/QUOTE]
They were un-retarded enough to pick Spirited Away over Lilo & Stitch, and this movie's selling even better than Spirited Away did. It doesn't mean it will happen, but it's possible.
From the trailer, animation looks incredible, but the story premise didn't hook me at all. Slice-of-life + body swapping ain't much to build a movie off of. Ofc a 1 and a half minute trailer can hardly do any film justice.
I've always thought that animation is a medium with too much artistic freedom for it to limit itself with slice of life, but that's just my personal opinion. If it's getting so much talk, then surely there's something to this one.
[QUOTE=Mitsuma;51683019]It get praise everywhere but there is practically no way to see this movie outside of Japan. It is so infuriating.
I just want to watch this movie.[/QUOTE]
Really? I saw it in Brisbane of all places. It was a good film, but I like Spirited Away a lot better.
Certainly well deserved, no doubt one of the best films of all time, even when not limited to just animation. It has been months since its first showing and my local movie theater still has showings FIVE times a day.
[QUOTE=Mort Stroodle;51683032]From the trailer, animation looks incredible, but the story premise didn't hook me at all. Slice-of-life + body swapping ain't much to build a movie off of. Ofc a 1 and a half minute trailer can hardly do any film justice.[/QUOTE]
Watch it and I am sure you will change your mind.
[QUOTE=Mitsuma;51683019]It get praise everywhere but there is practically no way to see this movie outside of Japan. It is so infuriating.
I just want to watch this movie.[/QUOTE]
The only way you got to watch it in Scandinavia was to attend the Stockholm Film Festival earlier last year. Got to wait for that blu-ray now and I am actually not sure if it was a public event or not.
[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;51683027]They were un-retarded enough to pick Spirited Away over Lilo & Stitch, and this movie's selling even better than Spirited Away did. It doesn't mean it will happen, but it's possible.[/QUOTE]
Against Zootopia and Moana? This is the academy who gave the award to fucking frozen over The wind rises. [url=http://www.cartoonbrew.com/award-season-focus/proof-that-oscar-voters-are-clueless-about-animation-109456.html]This[/url] sums up how fucking clueless the people voting for animation are at the oscars, with half of them admitting they haven't even seen all the movies and choosing one their kid liked. One of them even dismisses the "two chinese fucken' things" entirely, which showcases his own stupidity as one of them is a japanese ghibli film, and the other is a fucking irish animated film. It's extremely depressing to anyone who genuinely enjoys animation to have things dismissed as children's films.
i've been waiting to watch this ever since it came out and boy it has been suffering
[QUOTE=Mort Stroodle;51683032]From the trailer, animation looks incredible, but the story premise didn't hook me at all. Slice-of-life + body swapping ain't much to build a movie off of. Ofc a 1 and a half minute trailer can hardly do any film justice.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Ryuken;51683056]I've always thought that animation is a medium with too much artistic freedom for it to limit itself with slice of life, but that's just my personal opinion. If it's getting so much talk, then surely there's something to this one.[/QUOTE]
I don't think you guys know what slice of life means, this movie isn't a slice of life.
I knew it'd be a Makoto Shinkai film from the sparkly thing in the thumbnail.
His movies have a very distinctive artsyle that I absolutely love.
[QUOTE=The Aussie;51683099]I don't think you guys know what slice of life means, this movie isn't a slice of life.[/QUOTE]
what do you mean? are you telling me you don't become a cute anime grill in your dreams?
[QUOTE=Darth Ninja;51683068]Really? I saw it in Brisbane of all places. It was a good film, but I like Spirited Away a lot better.[/QUOTE]
There were a couple of selected screenings but none in Germany and no where close either.
Watched this with my friends and it was an emotional rollercoaster. Can't really give a fair opinion because we were looking for something lighthearted and this was most definitely not it, but I liked it all the same, and I can't think of anything in japanese or non-japanese media that shares its premise. worth watching if the trailer looks good to you
I feel like it was more of a 'good touching story' than anything (although it did have glaringly large plotholes the size of the Chicxulub crater)
I think Frozen is still the highest grossing animated film in Japan though :v:
It's only in theaters right? There's no Blueray release yet?
I remember reading a headline about someone on the creator team was asking people to stop watching it
I guess it was really, really good regardless
like that's a big understatement when regarding this headline
MyAnimList has it as the highest rated anime right now. Is it really that good?
[QUOTE=megafat;51683238]MyAnimList has it as the highest rated anime right now. Is it really that good?[/QUOTE]
Probably not the best anime ever made, but certainly one of the best anime films made.
I'm gonna see it next week, they are airing it for just 3 days here though.
Looks stunning, i love the artstyle, expecially the backgrounds.
[QUOTE=Scratch.;51683193]I remember reading a headline about someone on the creator team was asking people to stop watching it
I guess it was really, really good regardless
like that's a big understatement when regarding this headline[/QUOTE]
Yeah, Makoto Shinkai really just wants to create movies and not become something he doesn't want to be. It's a really sad situation for him. He really seems to find the success insufferable.
[URL="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/12/27/films/please-dont-see-animated-blockbuster-says-japans-new-miyazaki-makoto-shinkai/"]Japantimes Article[/URL]
Then again, maybe it's all tongue in cheek. I have no clue. Either way if it's actually serious, I feel really bad for him.
[QUOTE=FezianEmperor;51683358]Yeah, Makoto Shinkai really just wants to create movies and not become something he doesn't want to be. It's a really sad situation for him. He really seems to find the success insufferable.
[URL="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/12/27/films/please-dont-see-animated-blockbuster-says-japans-new-miyazaki-makoto-shinkai/"]Japantimes Article[/URL]
Then again, maybe it's all tongue in cheek. I have no clue. Either way if it's actually serious, I feel really bad for him.[/QUOTE]
Well, imagine you just wanted to make a movie with moderate success that you don't think is perfect, and then it's a worldwide success and suddenly you're on a massive pedestal being called the second coming of anime jesus and the rest of your career will likely be in this one's shadow.
That's a little bit of pressure.
Surprisingly managed to watch this movie in the In Flight Entertainment system on a Qatar Airways flight.
Since I missed the Australian screening, Malaysian screening and Spanish screening. A little bit disappointed I couldn't watch it in the big screens but still very satisfied.
Its definitely the freshest work by Shinkai. His work is usually good but IMO it lacks that extra "thing" that makes movies a masterpiece. And this one had it. The artstyle and animation just scream pure love and hard work.
[sp]the timelapse scene was absolutely gorgeous, shed tears the same way as when I saw how beautiful the visuals were in Interstellar. And imagine some team had to painstakingly draw all that shit in the animation process.[/sp]
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From what I understand him not wanting people to watch the movie is really more of a case of,
"This movie is an incomplete mess, please do not praise it too much." because only the creator will know the true value of his work.
and there is also the case of people setting the expectation bar really high for him from now on. To him, this movie reaching its current status is more of a fluke.
People are labeling him as the next Miyazaki only for the popularity and not because of what his movies actually are. They may be both in the animation industry but the movies they make is different. Its like saying Max Verstappen (of F1) is the next Valentino Rossi (Moto GP). They both may be in the racing business but one races cars and the other does bikes.
[QUOTE=FezianEmperor;51683358]Yeah, Makoto Shinkai really just wants to create movies and not become something he doesn't want to be. It's a really sad situation for him. He really seems to find the success insufferable.
[URL="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/12/27/films/please-dont-see-animated-blockbuster-says-japans-new-miyazaki-makoto-shinkai/"]Japantimes Article[/URL]
Then again, maybe it's all tongue in cheek. I have no clue. Either way if it's actually serious, I feel really bad for him.[/QUOTE]
He's wary of becoming the next Notch (i.e. a talented but humble-scale creator becoming a global name). In a country and industry who is hoping for another Miyazaki to come along since the current one keeps attempting to retire and eventually won't come back to the studio.
I'd say it's a legit reason to keep expectations in check if he doesn't [I]want[/I] to try and keep this new skyhigh standard.
The fact that the trailer didn't sell me on it at all just makes me want to watch it even more
[QUOTE=Mort Stroodle;51683032]From the trailer, animation looks incredible, but the story premise didn't hook me at all. Slice-of-life + body swapping ain't much to build a movie off of. Ofc a 1 and a half minute trailer can hardly do any film justice.[/QUOTE]
It's not slice of life at all. Anyway it's an incredible film, can't wait to pick it up on blu ray when it comes out.
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