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ABS-CBN to Air Shinkai's your name. Film With Filipino Dub on Sunday
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Philippine television channel Kimi no Na wa.) anime film during the channel's "Kapamilya Blockbuster Family Weekend" block on Sunday, February 18 at 10:15 p.m. This will be the film's television premiere in the Philippines.
ABS-CBN's TAG channel was shut down without airing the film.
your name. centers on Taki, a high school boy living in Tokyo who works part-time at a restaurant, and Mitsuha, a high school girl living in a town in rural Japan who wants to live in the city. One day, they begin switching bodies every time they sleep, and have to find a way to communicate with each other to manage each other's lives. Later, when they try to meet up physically for the first time, Taki discovers a secret that will lead to a race against time to try and save each other.
The film opened in Japan in August 2016, and has become the fourth highest-grossing film of all time in Japan, the second highest-grossing Japanese film, and the second highest-grossing anime film, with earnings of more than 25 billion yen ($225 million). The film opened in 92 countries and territories, and earned box-office achievements in South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Taiwan, in addition to Japan.
your name. opened in the Philippines in December 2016.
A live-action Hollywood J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot Productions is in the works. Eric Heisserer (Arrival, Final Destination 5) is penning the script.
[Via AnimePH]
