This is a 2016 Japanese animated youth science fiction fantasy.
Here's the movie trailer:
Translation
Boy: On that day... That day when stars fell from the sky... It was almost like...
Girl: It was almost like a dream.
Both: It was beautiful.
Text: Japan prepares for the arrival of a meteor in a thousand years.
Text: A high school boy who lives in the heart of the city - Taki
Taki: After school? Sorry, I have my part-time job after this.
Text: A girl who dreams of Tokyo - Mitsuha
Mitsuha: I am so sick of the boonies. I am so sick of this kind of life. Please make me a hot boy from Tokyo in my next life!
Taki: Where am I?
Mitsuha: Come to think of it, it kind of feels like I was having a weird dream this whole time. A dream of someone else's life...?
Text on Arm: Don't get a big head!
Text: The meeting of two people who will never meet
Mitsuha: Ah!
Taki: Wha-!?
Mitsuha: This is... Is this...!?
Taki: Are we switching places
Both: Inside our dreams!?
Text: A miraculous story has begun to move
Mitsuha: There is one certain thing: We'll know as soon as we see each other.
Text in notebook: Who are you?
Text on hand: I found...
Taki: I had been thinking to tell you that wherever you are in the world, I'm going to go and see you no matter what!
Mitsuha: Who... are you?
Taki: Just who... are you?
Both: What's your name?
(http://animangaletter.blogspot.com/2016/06/movie-kimi-no-na-wayour-name-casts.html)
MOVIE PLOT
The movie starts off with the main male character, Taki Tachibana and the main female character, Mitsuha Miyamizu waking up to normal lives, however they can't help but feel the sensation of losing something important to them. It quickly switches to Mitsuha Miyamizu, a high school girl living countryside, who wakes up in a daze and then proceeds with her normal everyday life. At her high school, she is being told how differently she acted the day before, but surprisingly, she could not remember anything at all. She carries on with her daily duties as a high school girl and as a shrine maiden, miko, by making "Kuchikami-zake," a type of ancient rice wine, in her mouth as a ritual and by learning kumihimo from her grandmother. She gets fed up and screams at the top of her lungs how she hates her hometown and her life, and wishes to be born as a handsome Tokyo boy in the next life. The movie switches to the main male character's life, Taki Tachibana, a high school boy living in Tokyo, acting quite feminine. It seems Mitsuha had been somehow transported into Taki's body, not remembering how or why she was transported.
Soon, Taki and Mitsuha find that they are both being transported into each other's bodies and try to find a reason as to why or how. They both start to think that switching bodies are normal now and intervene in each other's life. Leaving notes and memos behind, they find it fun and interesting to live each other's lives for a short period of time. Mitsuha helps Taki get closer to his female coworker, Miki Okudera, and eventually lands a date with her. Mitsuha tells Taki about the upcoming comet and how she is excited to see it, as it collides with her town's festival as well. At one point, Mitsuha's grandmother asked him "You're still dreaming, aren't you?" while he was in her body and later after that they both stop changing bodies. During Taki's date with his coworker, she leaves him, saying that she knew someone else was on his mind. Taki tries to contact Mitsuha but fails. He then decides to confront her in person and goes to her hometown.
Without knowing what or where her village is, he relies solely on the sketches he drew of the village's scenery and tries to find a way there. Accompanied by his friend and co-worker Tsukasa Fujii and Miki Okudera, they travel around other parts of Japan to find the village. In a restaurant, a server recognizes Taki's sketch, saying that the town used to be lovely. He takes them to where a giant crater where it used to be. He is then told that the comet which Mitsuha had told him about, had destroyed the village "Itomori" 3 years ago, killing a third of the population in the village. Finding the names of the deceased from the incident, he finds Mitsuha's name and both her friend's, Katsuhiko Teshigawara and Sayaka Natori.
Not knowing what is reality anymore, he tries to find the memos and notes which she had saved on his phone to make sure he wasn't dreaming, but all of them have disappeared. In a final act of determination, Taki embarks on a solo adventure to the underground shrine in the mountains that Mitsuha's grandmother took the two siblings here earlier on, to store their Kuchikami-zake. Realising that his and Mitusha's timelines were actually out of sync the whole time, Taki drank the rice wine Mitsuha made, hoping to reconnect to her body before the comet strikes. In her body, he convinces her friends about the comet and gets their help in trying to evacuate the village. It is also revealed that when the body swapping stopped, Mitsuha also tried to find Taki and took a train to Tokyo. She couldn't find him there and rode home, dejected. She then recognizes him on the train but since her timeline is in the past (essentially she was 3 years earlier), Taki didn't recognize her. Mitsuha's spirit awakens in Taki's body and wanders to the top of the mountain, where Taki ends back up on in Mitsuha's timeline. However, due to the two still being out of sync, they are unable to see each other. As the sun sets, both Taki and Mitsuha realise it is now "Kataware-doki" (twilight time) [a] The two now swap back to themselves and are synced up, able to see each other standing there. Although joyful from seeing each other the first time, Taki warns Mitsuha to convince her father and evacuate before its too late, whilst deciding that they should write each others names on their hands, so they wont forget as they return to each other's timelines. Before they could finish writing their names on their hands, their reunion is cut short as the sun sets and they are returned to their timelines. Although they desperately try to remember each other, they forget their names. Mitsuha opens her palm to see Taki's writing but it is revealed that he wrote that he loves her instead of his name, and Mitsuha calls him an idiot while crying. Mitsuha and her friends appear to have failed in evacuating the village as the comet fragments hit.
8 years later, it is revealed that the Itomori village luckily managed to survive. Mitsuha and Taki meet on a staircase, with seemingly no recollection of the body swapping. Feeling like they know each other somehow, they ask for each other's name.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_Name)
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