Weathering with You, the follow-up to the acclaimed Your Name, has a US release date. The movie will open on January 17. In case you missed it, check out Kotaku’s review.
Weathering With You is this year’s biggest money-making film in Japan. During the picture’s first 34 days, Makoto Shinkai’s anime raked in over 10 billion yen ($94.59 million). The last Japanese movie to make 10 billion yen was Shinkai’s previous work Your Name. Read Kotaku’s Weathering With You review right here.…
Godzilla Resurgence won Best Picture at this year’s Japan Academy Prize awards, beating out Your Name. In case you missed them, check out Kotaku’s Godzilla Resurgence review here and our Your Name impressions here.
Anime movie Your Name is the highest-grossing anime worldwide, and finally, it’s getting a wide theatrical release in the U.S. and Canada. On April 7th, a dubbed and subtitled version of Your Name will be in theaters in every U.S. state. Read our impressions of it here.
Critically-acclaimed anime movie Your Name is on a U.S. theatrical run that may qualify it for an Academy Award. It’s the story of a small-town girl and a Tokyo boy switching bodies—and changing each other’s lives—that is the fifth highest-grossing anime film of all time. In 2003, Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away won…