Synopsis
High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must adjust their lives around each other.
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Cast
- Ryunosuke KamikiTaki Tachibana (voice)
- Mone KamishiraishiMitsuha Miyamizu (voice)
- Ryo NaritaKatsuhiko Teshigawara (voice)
- Aoi YukiSayaka Natori (voice)
- Nobunaga ShimazakiTsukasa Fujii (voice)
- Kaito IshikawaShinta Takagi (voice)
- Kanon TaniYotsuha Miyamizu (voice)
- Masaki TerasomaToshiki Miyamizu (voice)
- Sayaka OharaFutaha Miyamizu (voice)
- Kazuhiko InoueTaki's Father (voice)
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The Telegraph
The only way to understand it is to swim in it for yourself, feel your own heart braid around these two interwoven lives, and gaze up in awe at the silvery arc those falling stars trace across the sky. - 100
Empire
Part body-swap comedy, part long-distance romance, part... something else. If you only see one Japanese animated feature this year, see this one, and see it more than once. - 100
Total Film
Prepare to be spirited away. A brain-scrambler to make hearts swell, Shinkai’s giddy romance brims with emotion and invention. - 80
Screen Daily
This is a film which handles its high concept with confidence, and a winning balance of comedy and emotional punch. - 80
Variety
This vividly realized and emotionally satisfying feature ought to make Shinkai a household name — certainly in Japan, and with any luck, in other countries as well. - 75
IndieWire
Like all of Shinkai’s films, the richness of the light coats everything it touches with such an evocative hue of nostalgia that the plot only puts a damper on things (and there’s a lot of plot here). - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
For all its entertaining novelty, it is still many steps behind the magic, penetrating insights and profound humanity of the Japanese anime pantheon lead by Hayao Miyazaki and Mamoru Hosoda. - 67
The A.V. Club
There’s admittedly a certain pleasure in the deft fake-out that Shinkai executes here—most viewers will automatically make an assumption that’s ultimately proven wrong—but it comes at the cost of overall narrative incoherence.