Ten years ago, Makoto Shinkai premiered what could be argued is his magnum opus, Your Name, at Anime Expo in Los Angeles, where it became an instant classic. The first film in the legendary anime director’s “disaster trilogy” was met with widespread praise for its unique, emotionally heavy take on a body-swap story that has already had a massive influence on the medium. Beyond all the acclaim and awards spanning from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association to the Japan Academy, it managed the unthinkable and dethroned one of Studio Ghibli’s all-time classics, Spirited Away, to become the highest-grossing original Japanese animated film of all-time with a worldwide haul of $400 million. Now, once more during Anime Expo, Collider can exclusively reveal that Mitsuha and Taki’s story will soon be retold in theaters with a new 4K remaster on August 14 courtesy of GKIDS.
Your Name‘s return to the big screen will be available with both the original Japanese, accompanied by English subtitles, and the English dub, which features The Venture Bros. star Michael Sinterniklaas as the city-dwelling Taki opposite Naruto alum Stephanie Sheh as rural schoolgirl Mitsuha. Written and directed by Shinkai with CoMix Wave Films handling the animation, the film follows the two high school students whose completely separate lives are suddenly thrust together when they swap bodies one morning. Their unexpected predicament forces them to navigate the chaos of each other’s lives, trying to find little ways to communicate and establish boundaries with one another, and forge a surprising connection with one another as they continuously switch between their existences. Upon attempting to meet, however, they encounter a harrowing twist of fate, showing that the gap between them is much wider than they ever imagined, and their longing stretches across the bounds of time and destiny.
As previously announced back in June, GKIDS and Shout! Studios are also giving North American audiences their first chance to own Your Name in 4K. A new 4K Ultra HD steelbook and Blu-ray issue will bring the remaster home on August 25 and let viewers experience the emotional, earth-rending roller coaster of their love all over again, backed by the iconic score by Radwimps. Although Shinkai had already established himself as a name to watch with his previous films, like the coming-of-age romance triptych 5 Centimeters Per Second, the 2016 feature solidified him as among the greatest modern directors of animation and one that’ll be worth a revisit with a fresh coat of paint. The physical release comes packed with special features that explore its creation and Shinkai’s filmography leading up to that point, with a behind-the-scenes featurette, a special TV interview, and more.
Collider Exclusive · Oscar Best Picture Quiz Which Oscar Best Picture Is Your Perfect Movie? Parasite · Everything Everywhere · Oppenheimer · Birdman · No Country
Five Oscar Best Picture winners. Five completely different visions of what cinema can be — and what it can do to you. One of them is the film that was made for the way your mind works. Ten questions will figure out which one.
🪜Parasite
🌀Everything Everywhere
☢️Oppenheimer
🐦Birdman
🪙No Country for Old Men
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What kind of film experience do you actually want? The best movies don’t just entertain — they leave something behind.
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Which idea grabs you most in a film? Great films are driven by a central obsession. What’s yours?
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How do you like your story told? Form is content. The way a story is shaped changes what it means.
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What makes a truly great antagonist? The opposition defines the protagonist. What kind of opposition fascinates you?
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What do you want from a film’s ending? The final note is the one that lingers. What do you want it to sound like?
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Which setting pulls you in most? Where a film takes place shapes everything — mood, stakes, what’s even possible.
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What cinematic craft impresses you most? Every great film has a signature — a technical or artistic element that makes it unmistakable.
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What kind of main character do you root for? The protagonist is the lens. Who you choose to follow says something about you.
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How do you feel about a film that takes its time? Pace is a choice. Some films sprint; others let tension accumulate slowly, deliberately.
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What do you want to feel walking out of the cinema? The best films leave a mark. What kind of mark do you want?
The Academy Has Decided Your Perfect Film Is…
Your answers have pointed to one Oscar Best Picture winner above all others. This is the film that was made for the way your mind works.
Parasite
You are drawn to films that operate on multiple levels simultaneously — that begin in one genre and quietly, brilliantly migrate into another. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is a film about class, desire, and the architecture of inequality that manages to be darkly funny, deeply suspenseful, and genuinely shocking across a single extraordinary running time. Your instinct is for cinema that hides its true intentions until the moment it’s ready to reveal them. Parasite is exactly that — a film that rewards close attention and punishes assumptions, right up to its devastating final image.
Everything Everywhere All at Once
You want it all — and this film gives you all of it. The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of the most maximalist films ever made: action comedy, multiverse sci-fi, family drama, existential crisis, and a genuinely earned emotional core that sneaks up on you amid the chaos. You are someone who responds to ambition, who doesn’t want cinema to choose between being entertaining and being meaningful. This film refuses that choice entirely. It is overwhelming by design, and its overwhelming nature is precisely the point — because the feeling of being crushed by infinite possibility is exactly what it’s about.
Oppenheimer
You are drawn to cinema on a grand scale — films that understand history not as a backdrop but as a force, and that place their characters inside that force and watch what happens. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a film about the terrifying gap between what we can do and what we should do, told with the full weight of one of the most consequential moments in human history behind it. You want your films to feel important without feeling self-important — to earn their ambition through sheer craft and the gravity of their subject. Oppenheimer does exactly that. It is enormous, complicated, and refuses easy comfort.
Birdman
You are drawn to films that foreground their own construction — that make the how of the filmmaking part of the what it’s about. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, shot to appear as a single continuous take, is cinema examining itself through the cracked mirror of a fading actor’s ego. You respond to formal daring, to the feeling that a film is doing something that probably shouldn’t be possible. Michael Keaton’s performance and Emmanuel Lubezki’s restless camera create something genuinely unlike anything else — a film that is simultaneously about creativity, relevance, self-destruction, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing if your work means anything at all.
No Country for Old Men
You are drawn to cinema that trusts silence, that refuses to explain itself, and that treats dread as a form of meaning. The Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men is a film about the arrival of a new kind of evil — implacable, arbitrary, and utterly indifferent to the moral frameworks we use to make sense of the world. It is one of the most formally controlled films ever made, and its controlled restraint is what makes it so terrifying. You want your films to haunt you, not comfort you. You are not interested in resolution if resolution would be dishonest. No Country for Old Men is honest in a way that most cinema never dares to be.
What’s Next for Makoto Shinkai?
Image via GKIDS
Since wrapping up his disaster trilogy in 2022 with the release of Suzume, Shinkai has been absent from the director’s chair, though that may not be for much longer. He teased at the end of 2025 that more “concrete details” about his next project would be coming sometime this year and that he and the team have been hard at work to finally return to the big screen. While he’s been busy, however, his work has continued to evolve. Last year saw the release of a live-action adaptation of 5 Centimeters Per Second that Shinkai himself had high praise for, describing his story as a “seed” that “has beautifully come to fruition” through the new version. Your Name was set to get a Hollywood live-action take at Paramount, with Raya and the Last Dragon co-director Carlos López Estrada most recently attached to helm and write, but there’s been little in terms of updates since 2023.
Your Name returns to theaters in 4K on August 14 before the remastered home release on August 25. Check out the official poster above.
