GKIDS Announces Your Name. New 4K Remaster of Acclaimed Director Makoto Shinkai’s Beloved Film Comes to Theatres Nationwide Beginning August 14th

Celebrating its 10^th Anniversary, GKIDS Brings the Iconic Animated Romantic Fantasy to a New Generation of Fans With An All New 4K Remaster

GKIDS, the Academy Award®-winning producer and distributor of acclaimed and artist-driven animation from around the world, announced today it will bring a new 4K remaster to North American theatres nationwide beginning August 14^th in both its original Japanese language and English dub, with tickets on sale later this month. Celebrating the 10^th anniversary of the globally beloved film from acclaimed director Makoto Shinkai, GKIDS also revealed new key art at its 2026 Anime Expo industry panel.

Last month, GKIDS announced it will release brand new issues of 4K Ultra HD Steelbook and Blu-Ray™, available for pre-order now, and will hit shelves on August 25^th with distribution by Shout! Studios, a Radial Entertainment Company. This release marks the first-ever 4K Ultra HD product of the film in North America.

The 2016 feature is an original anime film, directed and written by Makoto Shinkai (Suzume, Weathering with You) and animated by CoMix Wave Films. Upon its original release, it swiftly became a global phenomenon, and went on to receive global critical acclaim, awards, and accolades, including winning 2016 Sitges – Catalonian International Film Festival’s “Best Animated Feature Film”; 2017 Awards of the Japanese Academy “Best Animation”, “Best Screenplay”, “Best Director” and “Best Music Score”; 2016 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards “Best Animation”, and more. The film remains the highest-grossing original Japanese animated feature of all time, with a worldwide box office of over $400 million. A breathtaking love story across time, veteran and new fans alike will be able to fully immerse themselves in the beauty of YOUR NAME. in its 4K remaster.

GKIDS handles distribution for a number of Makoto Shinkai’s seminal films, including Weathering With You, Children Who Chase Lost Voices, 5 Centimeters Per Second, The Place Promised in our Early Days and Voices of a Different Star. YOUR NAME. joins these beloved titles from Makoto Shinkai in the GKIDS catalog.

Synopsis:

One morning, rural schoolgirl Mitsuha and city kid Taki awaken to discover that they’ve switched bodies. The total strangers struggle to navigate each other’s lives, walking tightropes of intimacy and distance. But when they finally resolve to meet, the true nature of their connection threatens to seal their fate.

Instantly iconic, Your Name. was a worldwide smash hit and heralded writer/director Makoto Shinkai as a new great master of animation. Its sumptuous attention to detail in yearning vistas and pulsing city streets, driven by an unforgettable score from RADWIMPS, elevates its central romance to world-rending levels of destiny and longing.