Studio Ghibli co-founder and former producer Toshio Suzuki recently gave an interview with Weekly Bunshun magazine, and he finally gave his thoughts, along with the thoughts of the man Makoto Shinkai has been compared to, Hayao Miyazaki, about your name. The producer first talked about the “a girl losing her way in a different world” trope and said, “I had a prediction that someone would make that sometime.”
The multi-award-winning anime movie may have gotten the Oscar snub, but the film did manage to surpass Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli’s Oscar-winning classic, Spirited Away.
Makoto Shinkai’s your name. is now officially the highest grossing Japanese animated film of all time in terms of global box office sales.
The film has received both praise and criticism from critics all over the world, but what do the people from Studio Ghibli think of the film?