Collin Racho Grade 11 Prosperity EAAP

Your Name (君の名は, Kimi no Na wa)

is a Japanese film written and directed
by Makoto Shinkai.

High school girl Mitsuha Miyamizu lives in the town of Itomori in Japan's mountainous
Hida region. She is bored with the country life, and wishes to be a handsome boy in her next life.
She is bored with the country life, and wishes to be a handsome boy in her next life. She begins
switching bodies intermittently with Taki Tachibana, a high school boy in Tokyo when they
wake up. They communicate by writing messages on paper, their phones, and sometimes on each
other's skin. Mitsuha causes Taki to develop a relationship with his coworker Miki Okudera,
while Taki causes Mitsuha to become popular in school.
One day, Taki, as Mitsuha, accompanies her grandmother and sister to leave the ritual
alcohol kuchikamizake, made by Mitsuha, as an offering at the shrine on a mountaintop outside
the town. The shrine is believed to represent the body of the village guardian god who rules
human experiences and connections. Mitsuha's latest note tells Taki about a comet expected to
pass Earth on the day of her town festival.
Next day. Taki wakes up in his body. After an unsuccessful date with Miki, he tries to
call Mitsuha, but cannot reach her, and the body switching ends. He decides to visit Itomori, but
does not know its name, his memories of it are fading, and Mitsuha's messages have disappeared.
A restaurant owner in Hida finally recognizes Itomori from Taki's sketch and tells him when the
comet unexpectedly split into two, the smaller one crashed onto Earth and destroyed the town.
Taki finds Mitsuha's name in the records of fatalities and discovers the date of the disaster,
realizing their timelines were separated by three years.
Taki goes to the shrine to drink Mitsuha's kuchikamizake, hoping to reconnect with her
body and warn her of the comet strike. Through a vision, Taki discovers that Mitsuha, having
fallen in love with him, met his past self while trying to meet him personally. He wakes in her
body on the morning of the town festival; Mitsuha's grandmother deduces his identity, and tells
him the body switching is part of the Miyamizu family history as caretakers of the shrine. He
convinces Mitsuha's friends Katsuhiko Teshigawara and Sayaka Natori to help evacuate the town
by cutting the power and broadcasting a false emergency alert, but the plan fails. He realizes that
Mitsuha must be in his body at the shrine and goes back to find her.

Mitsuha wakes up in Taki's body at the shrine. When Taki reaches the shrine as the sun
sets, they sense each other's presence, but are separated by three years. However, when twilight
falls, they return to their own bodies and meet. They attempt to write each other's names on their
hands so they will remember each other, but twilight passes and Mitsuha disappears before she
can write hers. As Mitsuha races back to town to convince her estranged father, the Itomori
mayor, to evacuate the town, her memories of Taki start to fade. She realizes that Taki wrote "I
love you" on her hand instead of his name. The comet piece crashes to Earth, destroying Itomori.
Taki wakes up in his own time at the shrine, remembering nothing.
Five years later, Taki, having graduated from university, is searching for a job. He senses
he has lost something vital that he cannot identify, and feels inexplicable interest in the events
surrounding Tiamat, now eight years in the past: Itomori was destroyed, but all of its people
survived as they had evacuated just in time. Mitsuha has since moved to Tokyo. Sometime later,
Taki and Mitsuha glimpse each other when their respective trains pass each other and are
instantly drawn to seek one another, disembarking and racing to find the other, finally meeting at
the stairs of Suga Shrine [ja]. Taki calls out to Mitsuha, saying that he feels he knows her, and
she responds likewise. Having finally found what each had long searched for, they shed tears of
happiness and simultaneously ask each other for their name.

Summary:
“First Then Finally’’
First, Taki and Mitsuha, caretakers of the shrine, are separated due to contrasting
timeframes and cannot see each other in person. Tessie and Sayaka, two of Mitsuha's friends,
convince the townspeople to evacuate Itomori. When the evacuation plan fails, Mitsuha has to
convince her father, Toshiki, to evacuate everyone. Then, After Tiamat crashes, Taki returns to
his own timeframe and remembers nothing. Five years later, Taki, having graduated from
university, is searching for a job and feels an inexplicable interest in the events surrounding
Tiamat, now eight years in the past. Finally, when they glimpse each other when their respective
trains pass each other, they are instantly drawn to seek one another and meet at the stairs of Suga
Shrine. Taki calls out to Mitsuha and she responds likewise, having finally found what each had
long searched for. They shed tears of happiness and simultaneously ask each other for their name