Move over, Hollywood ¡ª Japanese moviegoers are shopping local these days.
While Walt Disney Co. claimed all five of the highest-grossing movies worldwide in 2016, the top spot in the world¡¯s fourth-largest box office was a body-swapping, gender-bending animated coming-of-age story, beating out ¡°Captain America: Civil War¡± and ¡°Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,¡± the two best performers globally.
¡°Your Name.,¡± a story about two star-crossed high-schoolers who switch bodies when they dream, hit theaters last summer as an unheralded feature from a director who had never before made a blockbuster. And although it didn¡¯t feature at the Academy Awards on Sunday ¡ª where Disney¡¯s dominance extended to the Oscar for best animated movie with ¡°Zootopia¡± ¡ª it has become a phenomenon in Japan.
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