Your Name Gets 10th Anniversary 4K Theatrical Re-Release From GKIDS
The re-release pairs with new 4K UHD home video editions, giving North American audiences a chance to see the remaster in theaters just before it arrives on disc.
Key Facts
- GKIDS will screen a 4K remaster of Your Name in North American theaters starting August 14.
- Tickets are on sale for screenings in both the original Japanese and an English-language dub.
- Your Name earned more than $400 million worldwide after its 2016 release.
- The film won best animated feature at the Sitges Film Festival and received honors at the Japan Academy Film Prize.
- New 4K UHD Steelbook and Blu-ray Disc home video releases arrive on August 25.
Reporting from 2 sources: Anime News Network, Cartoon Brew.
GKIDS will bring Makoto Shinkai's Your Name back to North American theaters on August 14 with a 4K remaster, marking the film's 10th anniversary. The distributor began streaming a trailer for the screening on Wednesday. Tickets are already on sale for showings in both the original Japanese and an English-language dub. The 2016 film, animated by CoMix Wave Films, follows Mitsuha, a rural teenager, and Taki, a Tokyo student, who wake up in each other's bodies and uncover a connection that spans time. Your Name became an international hit, earning more than $400 million worldwide, and won best animated feature at the Sitges Film Festival, plus honors for animation, directing, screenplay, and music at the Japan Academy Film Prize. The theatrical re-release joins several other Shinkai films that GKIDS distributes, including Weathering with You, 5 Centimeters per Second, Children Who Chase Lost Voices, and The Place Promised in Our Early Days. The film will also receive new 4K UHD Steelbook and Blu-ray Disc home video releases on August 25.
GKIDS has released a new trailer for the 4K remaster of Makoto Shinkai's Your Name, which will return to North American theaters beginning August 14. Tickets are already on sale for screenings in both the original Japanese and an English-language dub. The film, written and directed by Shinkai and animated by CoMix Wave Films, follows Mitsuha, a teenager living in rural Japan, and Taki, a student in Tokyo, who inexplicably begin waking up in each other's bodies, gradually revealing a connection that reaches across time.
Released in 2016, Your Name became an international hit, earning more than $400 million worldwide and establishing Shinkai as one of anime's most commercially successful filmmakers. It won best animated feature at the Sitges Film Festival and received honors for animation, directing, screenplay, and music at the Japan Academy Film Prize. The anniversary reissue joins several other Shinkai films distributed by GKIDS, including Weathering with You, 5 Centimeters per Second, Children Who Chase Lost Voices, and The Place Promised in Our Early Days. The film will also get new 4K UHD Steelbook and Blu-ray Disc home video releases on August 25.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.