Animation· 2016· Romance

君の名は。 (Your Name)

by 新海誠 Makoto Shinkai

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Makoto Shinkai draws on Shinto tradition for the bond between the two leads: the shrine and its braided cords, the idea of musubi, the sake offered to the god, and the twilight hour when the boundaries thin.

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