"your name." on SRF in Switzerland

As indicated by an entry in SRF's program schedule, the channel will air the anime film "Your Name." (Japanese: "Kimi no na wa.") today at 10:45 PM in Switzerland.

The original film was released in Japanese theaters in August 2016 and has since become the fourth highest-grossing film of all time in Japan, the second highest-grossing Japanese film, and the second highest-grossing anime film.

German trailer:



Info from SRF:

The approximately 16-year-old Mitsuha Miyamizu lives with her younger sister Yotsuha and her grandmother in a small Japanese mountain town. There, she is primarily responsible for the old Shinto shrine, which her family has maintained for generations with various rituals. Unfortunately, the prevailing feeling in the provincial backwater is boredom, as there are hardly any parties or cafés to grab a coffee. In short: she wishes she could live in a big city like Tokyo.

One evening, Mitsuha vents her frustration into the night, and the next morning, she wakes up strangely transformed. Suddenly, she finds herself in the body of a 16-year-old boy named Taki Tachibana, who attends school in the megacity of Tokyo and works at an Italian restaurant in the evening. Meanwhile, he has switched bodies with the girl he had been dreaming about every night. In Mitsuha's body, he wakes up in the mountains in the morning.

While the initial experiences feel quite strange for both of them, they soon bring structure to the body-swapping by recording their respective experiences in their smartphones. But suddenly, the connection is severed, and Taki sets out to find the unknown mountain town to meet Mitsuha in person. On their way to each other, it gradually becomes clear that the two are connected across space and time. Something is about to happen, but neither Mitsuha nor Taki can foresee the earth-shattering event hurtling toward them from the cosmos.