Kimi no Na Wa serious contender for Oscars :: Top grosser since last three months

Kimi no Na Wa top of the list for three months.

It is not always that a filmmaker comes up with a work of unmatchable art; and, it is not always that works of genuine art get the attention that they deserve. There can be many reasons for such slips and misses but, as it is said, true talent can never go unnoticed. This is absolutely true for an animation film that has rocked the audiences with its sheer brilliance and class.

For, Kimi na Na Wa has all the ingredients of a smash hit among animation films and stands tall in sheer quality and entertainment of almost all animes made till now; so great is its impact on the audiences that it is now being considered as one of the top-rankers in the list of films to be nominated for the Oscars which are a couple of months away.
This simple, straightforward animation film, Kimi no Na Wa simply means your name has an appealing storyline that touches the hearts of the young and the old alike; added to that are the amazing visuals that are brilliant enough to rock the audiences and make this film emerge as one of the most talked-about movie and meriting its inclusion in the exclusive list of films likely to be nominated for the Oscars.

And, it is now almost certain that Kimi no Na Wa will merit a serious consideration for being the official entry to the Oscars. Keeping it away from that list will take something much more classy and superior though there is not much chance of that in the limited time left.
Its box office earnings are a proof that this movie cannot be taken lightly; it has been the frontrunner for the last three months and has notched up earnings of more than 18 billion Yen ( $ 175 million). These figures have been authenticated by Forbes and pertain to the three months that this film opened in the theaters all over.

This awesome production is the work of the writing and direction of Makoto Shinkai and belongs to the genre of the scientific fiction with a fantasy woven around the make-believe world of fantasies.

Mitsua Miyamizu and Taki Tachibana are are suddenly overwhelmed and find themselves and keep interchanging their bodies time and again.

This story has its origin in an old story that was enacted in the 12th century by the name of Torikaebaya Monogatari in which in which a brother and sister keep transforming into each other at regular intervals creating an intriguing story of a change of sex and bodies; this was the explanation given by Shinkai explaining that the central idea was adapted from that story.

Meanwhile, Funimation went ahead and announced that Kimi no Na Wa will be ready for screening to western audiences through its services. They also expressed the hope that the animation films would also be treated on par with mainstream cinema rather than just another genre of the film industry; till now, animation films are not considered on par with other medium of entertainment and not just a genre.

Holywood always terms these animation films as a genre meant for small children rather than a complete medium by itself; this prevents it from being a serious threat to much lesser movies, nor does it get merited with big awards.

Spirited Away was one of the rare animation films to win the award for the Best Animated Feature at the 75th edition of the Academy awards.

Umrao Singh
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Written for: Lars-Magnus Carlsson
www.thephilippinepride.com
Monday, 21 November 2016

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