Makoto Shinkai's Kimi no Na wa./your name. Film Trailer Reveals August 26 Opening, Song 

Makoto Shinkai\'s Kimi no Na wa./your name. Film Trailer Reveals August 26 Opening, Song

RADWIMPS band performs over 20 tracks for film\'s soundtrack

) anime film on Wednesday. The trailer reveals the film\'s August 26 opening date, and previews the song "Zen Zen Zense" by the Japanese rock band RADWIMPS.

Boy: On that day... That day when stars fell from the sky... It was almost like...

Text: Japan prepares for the arrival of a meteor in a thousand years.

Text: A high school boy who lives in the heart of the city - Taki

Taki: After school? Sorry, I have my part-time job after this.

Mitsuha: I am so sick of the boonies. I am so sick of this kind of life. Please make me a hot boy from Tokyo in my next life!

Mitsuha: Come to think of it, it kind of feels like I was having a weird dream this whole time. A dream of someone else\'s life...?

Text: The meeting of two people who will never meet

Mitsuha: There is one certain thing: We\'ll know as soon as we see each other.

Taki: I had been thinking to tell you that wherever you are in the world, I\'m going to go and see you no matter what!

RADWIMPS is composing over 20 tracks for the film\'s soundtrack, but is not composing the film\'s actual theme song. The band\'s leader Yōjirō Noda had met Shinkai about two years ago, and he has been involved since the early production stages of the film.

The film\'s official website streamed a teaser video in December.

Girl: Morning. When I wake up, for some reason I\'m crying. That kind of thing happens sometimes.

Boy: I never remember the dreams I should have had. But I\'ve always been searching for someone and something.

Girl: I became obsessed with that feeling probably starting on that day.

Boy: That day. The day the stars fell, it was like...

Girl: It was like scenery from a dream, it was just...

Text: I am searching for you, whom I have never met yet.

(The tagline on the below key visual reads, "I am searching for you, whom I have never met yet.")

The "story of miracles and love" revolves around Mitsuha and Taki. Mitsuha is a female high school student who lives in a rural town nestled deep in the mountains. Her father is the mayor and isn\'t at home much, and she lives with her elementary school-aged little sister and her grandmother. Mitsuha has an honest personality, but she doesn\'t like the customs of her family\'s Shinto shrine, nor does she like her father participating in an election campaign. She laments that she lives in a confined rural town, and yearns for the wonderful lifestyle of living in Tokyo. Taki is a male high school student who lives in central Tokyo. He spends time with his friends, works part-time at an Italian restaurant, and is interested in architecture and fine arts. One day, Mitsuha has a dream where she is a young man. Taki also has a dream where he is a female high school student in a town in the mountains that he has never been to. What is the secret to their dreams of personal experience?

Shinkai had announced in December 2014 that he was drawing storyboards for a new film. He added at the time that he wanted to make a work that was more enjoyable, more beautiful, and further beyond any work he has made so far. He said he plans to spend 2015 working only on this film.

, in 2013. Shinkai worked on a series of commercials for the construction company Taisei in 2014.

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