It has earned more than 10bn yen (£77m) in box office receipts, an anime milestone previously achieved only by Miyazaki’s films.
“Miyazaki would not have made this film, but Makoto Shinkai did,” he wrote in the Japan Times.
Shinkai has said he wants to make two more films for the Your Name distributor Toho before he turns 50.
The film is laced with gently comic moments induced by the awkwardness of adolescence.
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