According to Variety, FUNimation plans to screen Makoto Shinkai's hit anime movie Your Name. at Los Angeles’ Laemmle Music Hall for a one-week Oscar qualifying run from December 2-8. The film already premiered at the Shinkai retrospective for Anime Expo in Los Angeles in July before its international film festival run and its box-office topping Japanese theatrical run.

A wider North American theatrical run is planned for 2017.

Australian distributor Madman has also posted their English subtitled trailer

Mitsuha and Taki are two total strangers living completely different lives. But when Mitsuha makes a wish to leave her mountain town and for the bustling city of Tokyo, they become connected in a bizarre way. She dreams she is a boy living in Tokyo while Taki dreams he is a girl from a rural town he?s never been to.



What does their newfound connection mean? And how will it bring them together?



Your Name is coming to cinemas in Australia November 24 and New Zealand December 1. Visit the official website for full session times and details! - yournamefilm.com.au

via Otaku USA



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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.