Please don’t see my animated blockbuster 'Your Name' - Makoto Shinkai
Makoto Shinkai has a problem, a big problem. His mystical teenage body-swap movie "Your Name" has become such a massive hit it's beginning to worry him. "It's not healthy," the boyish director told MS. "I don't think any more people should see it." Every week it gets closer to being the biggest Japanese animated film of all time. And now there's talk of Oscars. "I really hope it doesn't win," he added. It would be funny if Shinkai wasn't so in earnest about getting off the promotional circuit and back to work. He just wants to get on with his next story about teched-up Japanese teens. But the little animated film has become a runaway cultural juggernaut in Asia, and now it's winning awards in the United States and Europe. One in seven Japanese have already paid to see its brilliantly plotted supernatural love story about a boy and a girl who exchange bodies as a comet is about to hit the Earth. Inevitably it has...