Move over, Hollywood — 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 — where Disney's dominance extended to the Oscar for best animated movie with "Zootopia" — it has become a phenomenon in Japan.