CATDOLL: "Your Name." box office exceeds 9 billion yen, Shinkai Makoto said he was scared

The craze for the animated film "Your Name." directed by Makoto Shinkai is still going on. September 17 to 19 is a three-day holiday in Japan, during which many new movies were released, but they failed to stop the surge in the box office of "Your Name." Now, the latest box office data was officially released today (September 20), and the box office of "Your Name." has exceeded the 9 billion yen mark.

As of September 19, 25 days after the release of Your Name, the box office has reached 9.1 billion yen (about 599 million yuan), and the number of viewers has exceeded 6.98 million. It is just around the corner that the box office of Your Name will break 10 billion, and the film will become the first non-Ghibli animated film in the history of Japanese animation to break 10 billion. However, in a recent interview, when asked by a reporter about his feelings about the high chance of breaking 10 billion at the box office, Makoto Shinkai said frankly: "It's scary. The box office income should be proportional to one's own strength. I don't have the strength to break 10 billion. Such a high box office is not balanced with my strength. So I feel scared."

"Your Name." tells a wonderful and romantic story. Mitsuha Miyanaga, a high school girl living in a remote mountain village, longs for life in a big city, so she makes a wish to a shooting star, hoping to become a boy and go to Tokyo. One day, Mitsuha suddenly dreams that she has become a boy and is standing on the wide streets of Tokyo. On the other hand, Tachibana Taki, a boy from Tokyo, also has a wonderful dream. In the dream, he becomes a high school girl and lives in a remote mountain village...