Q 01/05

Who wrote and directed Your Name?

A) Makoto Shinkai

B) Hayao Miyazaki

C) Mamoru Hosoda

D) Satoshi Kon

Answer · why

A) Makoto Shinkai

Critics call it the first of his 'disaster trilogy', all three films shaped by Japan's natural disasters.

Q 02/05

What is the film's Japanese title?

A) Kimi no Musubime

B) Tenki no Ko

C) Kimi no Na wa

D) Suzume no Tojimari

Answer · why

C) Kimi no Na wa

It literally means 'Your Name is...'; two of the distractors were among the discarded working titles and later Shinkai films.

Q 03/05

What is the name of Mitsuha's rural hometown?

A) Hida

B) Itomori

C) Takayama

D) Yuriage

Answer · why

B) Itomori

The town is fictional, but Hida city and its library provided real backdrops.

Q 04/05

In which prefecture is Mitsuha's hometown?

A) Nagano

B) Yamanashi

C) Toyama

D) Gifu

Answer · why

D) Gifu

Mitsuha speaks with a lilting Mino-dialect accent that Taki has to learn when he is in her body.

Q 05/05

What does Mitsuha wish for, just before the swapping begins?

A) To become a shrine maiden

B) To see the comet up close

C) To move to Kyoto with her father

D) To be reborn as a boy in Tokyo

Answer · why

D) To be reborn as a boy in Tokyo

She gets a version of it: Taki is a Tokyo boy who works part-time as a waiter.