"While the anime Your Name is centered on a boy living in Tokyo (named Taki) and a girl living in the mountainous countryside of Gifu Prefecture (Mitsuha), the Hollywood version will instead be about a boy from Chicago and a Native American girl in a rural community. The introduction of different ethnic backgrounds is an element that wasn’t present in the homogeneously Japanese anime, but Mitsuha’s background being steeped in ancient Japanese cultural traditions is both a major motivation for her actions and a critical plot point, so perhaps the American side of the production felt making the female lead Native American was the closest equivalent for an American setting."
Directed by: Marc Webb (The Amazing Spierman, Gifted)
Produced by: JJ Abrams (Star Trek 2009, Star Wars: The Force Awakens)
Submitted February 16, 2019 at 09:21AM by ExternalMidnight http://bit.ly/2GJslHX