It depicts the story of high school students Taki Tachibana and Mitsuha Miyamizu, who suddenly begin to swap bodies despite having never met, unleashing chaos on each other's lives.

It features the voices of Ryunosuke Kamiki and Mone Kamishiraishi, with animation direction by Masashi Ando, character design by Masayoshi Tanaka [ja], and its orchestral score and soundtrack composed by Radwimps.

The film received widespread critical acclaim, with praise for its story, animation, music, visuals, and emotional weight.

It became the second highest-grossing Japanese film of all time by grossing over US$400 million worldwide after rerelease, breaking numerous box office records and dethroning Spirited Away, only to be surpassed by Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train in 2020.

Mitsuha tells Taki that the comet Tiamat is expected to pass nearest to Earth on the day of the autumn festival.

When they arrive, they find the town abandoned and in a state of ruin, having almost entirely been decimated by fragments that fell from Tiamat.

He has a vision and recalls that Mitsuha once came to Tokyo to find him; though he did not recognize her, she gave him a red kumihimo ribbon he has worn ever since.

Taki awakens in Mitsuha's body on the morning of the festival, where Hitoha speaks directly to him, explaining that the body-switching phenomenon has always been in their family.

He is obsessed with the impact of Tiamat, from which the villagers of Itomori were miraculously saved by a fortuitous evacuation drill, but cannot remember why.

The idea of the film's story came to Makoto Shinkai after he visited Yuriage, Natori in July 2011, after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami occurred.

[15] In Shinkai's proposal sent to Toho on September 14, 2014, the film was originally titled Yume to Shiriseba (夢と知りせば, If I Knew It Was a Dream), derived from a passage in a waka poem attributed to Ono no Komachi.

[21] Yojiro Noda, the lead vocalist of the Japanese rock band Radwimps, composed the music of Your Name.

[24] Your Name premiered at the 2016 Anime Expo convention in Los Angeles on July 3, 2016, and later was released theatrically in Japan on August 26, 2016.

[45] Funimation announced on July 1 at Anime Expo 2017 that the film would be released on Blu-ray and DVD by the end of 2017, but did not specify a date.

[46] At Otakon 2017, Funimation announced they were releasing the film in both Standard and Limited Edition Blu-Ray and DVD Combo Packs on November 7.

[51] In 2017, the film generated ¥6,532,421,094 (US$58,238,797) in media revenue from physical home video, soundtrack and book sales in Japan.

[52] Overseas, the film has grossed over US$10.5 million from DVD and Blu-ray sales in the United States as of April 2022[update].

In addition, a special program dedicated to Makoto Shinkai as well as his previous works were also broadcast on the same channel.

[59][60] On April 9, 2020, as part of its Holy Week presentation, the film was aired again with minor cuts for content and longer runtime of 102 minutes (excluding commercials in its 2-hour timeslot) and it immediately became a trending topic through social media platforms whereas Makoto Shinkai himself thanked the viewers of the ABS-CBN broadcast of the film.

It returned to the top for another three weeks before finally being dethroned by Hollywood blockbuster Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

The site's critics consensus reads, "As beautifully animated as it is emotionally satisfying, Your Name adds another outstanding chapter to writer-director Makoto Shinkai's filmography.

[11] He also described the film's "over-deliver[y]" of "the comedy of adolescent embarrassment and awkwardness" and its ending for being "To the surprise of no one who has ever seen a Japanese seishun eiga (youth drama)".

The New York Times described it as "a wistfully lovely Japanese tale",[87] while David Sims of The Atlantic said it was "a dazzling new work of anime".

[91] Despite the praise he received, Makoto Shinkai insisted that the film is not as good as it could have been: "There are things we could not do, Masashi Ando [Director of Animation] wanted to keep working [on] but had to stop us for lack of money ... For me, it's incomplete, unbalanced.

[92] In a 2025 scholarly article devoted to the film, historian of modern Japan Andrea Germer criticizes it for attempting to answer to the crisis of the triple disaster of 2011 "with the melodramatic return to romantic and hierarchical gender formation, sexist imagery and ‘fascist moments‘ of cultural essentialism, that reify nativist and normative ideas about gender, nation, and culture.

[119] On September 27, 2017, producer J. J. Abrams and screenwriter Eric Heisserer announced that they were working on a live-action remake of Your Name to be released by Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot, alongside the original film's producers, Toho, who will handle the film's distribution in Japan.

[120] The film was being written by Eric Heisserer, who revealed that the Japanese right holders want it to be made from the western point of view.

[122] In September 2020, Deadline Hollywood reported that Lee Isaac Chung had taken over as both writer and director, working off a draft penned by Emily V. Gordon, with Abrams and Genki Kawamura co-producing.

[124] On October 31, 2022, Carlos López Estrada was announced to write and direct the remake, replacing Webb and Chung.