The climax of the movie highlights a comet that destroys Mitsuha’s hometown. Shinkai’s image of the comet reflects the earthquake and tsunami that hit the Tohoku region in 2011. Given Japan’s geographical location, it is “located along the Pacific Ring of Fire, Japan has experienced a long history of earthquakes, but the Tohoku-oki quake was a rare giant with no instrumentally recorded precedent” (Lay, Hiroo, Physics Today). Natural disaster such as earthquakes and tsunamis are not uncommon to Japan. However, the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in 2011 was no ordinary occurrence to them. “The devastation left some 20,000 people dead or missing…The tsunami leveled 130,000 houses and severely damaged 270,000 more” (Ranghieri, et al. Learning
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Through his film, Makoto Shinkai hopes to offer his viewers a new perspective of melding the modern and tradition culture to form a new sense of Japanese identity. As represented in the movie by the braided cords, everything is connected. From the difference in time, the difference in gender and the difference in identity, all of this is connected to each other. “Perhaps what’s most impressive about Your Name’s success is how it reached a group Makoto didn’t have in mind at all. The director admits as much in the previously mentioned Close Up Gendai special while watching clips of middle-aged viewers seeing the film—many of them crying” (Michels, TheAlantic.com). Shinkai’s film, Kimi No Na Wa is a film that appeals to all viewers. While modernization is steadily moving forward, tradition must be saved to preserve part of the Japanese identity. Just as Taki was able to help save Itomori from disappearing, he has also able to help save part of the Japanese traditions. Shinkai hopes for his viewers to recognize the importance of the traditional Japan and help preserve it for the future generations. Through his work of Kimi No Na Wa, Shinkai offers a new perspective on the Japanese identity and challenges the Japanese to recognize what their identity consists
Through his film, Makoto Shinkai hopes to offer his viewers a new perspective of melding the modern and tradition culture to form a new sense of Japanese identity. As represented in the movie by the braided cords, everything is connected. From the difference in time, the difference in gender and the difference in identity, all of this is connected to each other. “Perhaps what’s most impressive about Your Name’s success is how it reached a group Makoto didn’t have in mind at all. The director admits as much in the previously mentioned Close Up Gendai special while watching clips of middle-aged viewers seeing the film—many of them crying” (Michels, TheAlantic.com). Shinkai’s film, Kimi No Na Wa is a film that appeals to all viewers. While modernization is steadily moving forward, tradition must be saved to preserve part of the Japanese identity. Just as Taki was able to help save Itomori from disappearing, he has also able to help save part of the Japanese traditions. Shinkai hopes for his viewers to recognize the importance of the traditional Japan and help preserve it for the future generations. Through his work of Kimi No Na Wa, Shinkai offers a new perspective on the Japanese identity and challenges the Japanese to recognize what their identity consists