Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. In the anime film Your Name, Taki and Mitsuha swap bodies ...

With its hilarious and dramatic story, beautiful visuals and catchy soundtrack, it's really not a surprise that Japanese director Makoto Shinkai's "Your Name" has become the highest grossing anime ...

For some reason, movie critics like to use the descriptor “the new Miyazaki” to refer to Makoto Shinkai, director of the blockbuster anime hit Your Name (titled Kimi no Na wa in Japanese). All ...

In an opening line of the animated film “Your Name,” one of the main characters muses about the universal feeling of having the contents of a dream slip away during the early moments of wakefulness: ...

Your Name. was the most popular film in the world for the first two months of 2017. Now, the deeply resonant body-switching anime comes to the U.S. A Body-Switching Teen Romance Anime Disaster Flick ...

An ambitious Tokyo boy and a cautious girl living in a small country town, Taki (Ryunosuke Kamiki) and Mitsuha (Mone Kamishiraishi) are worlds apart from each other. Thanks to their supernatural ...

Writer/director Makoto Shinkai’s latest film venture bears all the hallmarks of an anime classic. The story soars majestically across the screen via breathtaking animation and is even more epic and ...

For some reason, movie critics like to use the descriptor “the new Miyazaki” to refer to Makoto Shinkai, director of the blockbuster anime hit Your Name (titled Kimi no Na wa in Japanese). All ...