Your Name 4K is coming back to theaters, and if you have never seen it on a big screen, this is your one chance to correct that mistake.
Because it is one.
GKIDS is bringing the Your Name 4K remaster to North American theaters nationwide beginning August 14, marking the film’s 10th anniversary.
Both the original Japanese version with subtitles and the English dub are screening, and tickets are on sale now.
The announcement came at GKIDS’ industry panel at Anime Expo 2026 along with new anniversary key art, and a fresh trailer followed when tickets went on sale in late July.
Fitting venue, too. Your Name. had its world premiere at Anime Expo back in July 2016, so the return was announced on the same stage where the whole phenomenon started.
Full Disclosure Before We Go Further
Long before there was a Your Name 4K remaster, I saw this film three times in theaters during its original run. Japanese first, then the English dub, then Japanese again.
I cried every single time. The hallway. The crater. The staircase. You know the ones.
If you have not seen it, you are missing one of animated cinema’s greatest gifts to the world, and I am not being cute about that.
The Record Nobody Else Holds
Here is the part worth understanding properly, because it usually gets garbled.
In January 2017, the film, now getting the Your Name 4K treatment, passed Spirited Away to become the highest-grossing anime film in the world, $281 million against $275 million at the time. Hayao Miyazaki’s masterpiece had held that title for roughly fifteen years.
Then it got taken back. Spirited Away‘s June 2019 theatrical release in China pushed it ahead again, and Demon Slayer: Mugen Train passed both in 2020.
So Your Name. held the crown for about two and a half years, and it does not hold it today.
What cannot be taken from it is that it got there first. Fifteen years of Miyazaki sitting at the top of anime’s global box office ended with this film, and nothing had come close before it.
For the record, the crown now sits somewhere else entirely. Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle closed its theatrical run in April with roughly $800 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing anime film in history and pushing even Mugen Train down the list. That is a story for another day.
One thing to keep straight: it never beat Spirited Away in Japan, where Miyazaki’s film still sits above it on the all-time chart. What Your Name. does still hold, and GKIDS leads with it in the anniversary materials, is the title of highest-grossing original Japanese animated film worldwide, which is its own achievement given it was not adapted from anything.
The Director Who Hates Being Called The Next Miyazaki
Makoto Shinkai did not come up through a studio system. He started essentially alone, hand-building short films, and won the grand prize at the 2000 DoGA CG Animation contest for a five-minute piece called She and Her Cat.
Then came Voices of a Distant Star in 2002, which he famously produced largely by himself. 5 Centimeters Per Second followed in 2007, then Children Who Chase Lost Voices in 2011 and The Garden of Words in 2013. All of it beautiful, all of it quietly devastating, none of it a global phenomenon.
Your Name. changed that overnight, and the press immediately reached for the same phrase: the new Miyazaki. It is the film getting the Your Name 4K restoration a decade later, and it made him a household name in a single season.
Shinkai has spent a decade politely refusing it. He has never worked at Studio Ghibli and there is no professional tie between them, only comparison. What is real is influence. In a 2011 interview he named Ghibli and Miyazaki as inspirations, singling out Laputa: Castle in the Sky, alongside novelist Haruki Murakami.
His own framing, offered to The Guardian, is the most honest version of it: he has to make something different from Miyazaki, but he wants his films to trigger the same emotions in people that Miyazaki’s films triggered in him.
He went on to make Weathering With You in 2019 and Suzume in 2022, which became one of the highest-grossing films in Japanese history in its own right.
He Did Not Think It Was Finished
This is the detail that reframes the whole thing.
At the height of Your Name.’s success, with awards talk building and the film breaking records across Asia, Shinkai gave an interview published that December that ran under headlines amounting to a single plea: please do not see my film.
He was not joking.
“For me it’s incomplete, unbalanced,” he told The Japan Times, adding that the plot was fine but the film itself was not perfect, and that two years of production had simply not been enough.
He added that he did not think any more people should see it.
The reason was money and time. He did not have enough of either to finish the film the way he wanted, and the version that conquered the world was, in his own assessment, a compromise.
Ten years and more than $400 million later, that compromise is getting the Your Name 4K restoration and a nationwide victory lap. Make of that what you will.
What Else Is Coming
If the theatrical Your Name 4K run is not enough, the 4K Ultra HD Steelbook and Blu-ray arrive August 25 through Shout! Studios, and it is the first 4K Ultra HD release of the film in North America.
CoMix Wave Films also has a new short, Shiranui, landing in Japanese theaters on August 21, one week after Your Name. returns stateside.
And Shinkai has confirmed he is working on his next feature, with details still under wraps.
Where To Get Your Name 4K Tickets
Tickets are on sale now through GKIDS, which lists participating theaters and showtimes by location. You can also find the Your Name 4K run on Fandango, which is the fastest way to check what is playing near you and grab seats.
The film opens nationwide on August 14 in both Japanese with subtitles and English dub, and some theaters are running preview screenings the night before on August 13. Showtimes for each version vary by location, so check the format before you book. Not every screen is carrying both.
Availability differs market to market as chains finalize their listings. In Las Vegas, for example, several Regal and Cinemark locations already have Your Name 4K showtimes posted, while the area’s AMC theaters had not listed it yet as of this writing.
If your local screen is not showing it, check back, because bookings are still expanding right up to release.
