YOUR NAME? Takes Top Spot At Japanese Box Office For 7th Week In A Row

Nicknamed "the new Miyazaki", director Makoto Shinkai is definitely living up to that compliment as his latest release, Kimi no Na wa? (Your Name?).  The film currently ranks #6 on the all-time higest grossing films at the Japanese box office and currently shows no signs of slowing down.  In an ironic twist, Your Name? is expected to soon surpass Hayao Miyazaki's 2008 film Gake no Ue no Ponyo which currenlty sits at #5.

Weekend box office in Japan (October 8-9)
1 (1). "Kimi no na Wa./your name."
2 (new). "Jason Bourne"
3 (new). "HiGH&LOW THE RED RAIN"
4 (3). "Koe no Katachi"
5 (new). "Good Morning Show"
6 (2). "Sully"
7 (4). "SCOOP!"
8 (5). "Ikari"
9 (6). "Yamikin Ushijima-kun Part 3"
10 (7). "Shin Godzilla"

All-Time Japanese Film Box Office Top 10:
1. "Spirited Away" (2001/30.1 billion yen)
2. "Howl's Moving Castle" (2004/19.6 billion)
3. "Princess Mononoke" (1997/19.3 billion)
4. "Bayside Shakedown 2" (2003/17.35 billion)
5. "Ponyo" (2008/15.5 billion)
6. "your name." (2016/14.56 billion)
7. "The Wind Rises" (2013/12.02 billion)
8. "Antarctica" (1983/11 billion)
9. "Bayside Shakedown 2" (1998/10.1 billion)
10. "The Adventures of Chatran" (1986/9.8 billion)

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.

Japanese rock band Radwimps provides the soundtrack.  Ryunosuke Kamiki voices Taki while Mone Kamishiraishi plays Mitsuha.