As a follow up to our p
revious report that Funimation would be releasing your name. in North American theaters before the end of 2016 so that it qualifies for the next Oscars, Funimation has provided additional information to Variety.
It seems that the film will only be released in Los Angles, showing at the Laemmle Music Hall, from Dec. 2 -8 so that your name. meets the minimum requirements to qualify for the Oscars. Funimation then plans a wider release in North America doing the first quarter of 2017.
So unless you live in LA or will be visiting the week of December 02, you'll have to wait till next year to see the film that's
currently dominating the Japanese box office.
Mitsuha is a high school girl living in a rural mountainous town who yearns to live in Tokyo. Taki is a high school boy whose home is in the capital. Mitsuha has a dream in which she is a boy living in Tokyo, while Taki has a dream in which he has become a girl in a town deep in the mountains. Mitsuha and Taki keep having these strange dreams and they come to realize that they have switched bodies.