During a press conference for his trending animated film 'Your Name' (also 'Kimi no Na wa'), director Makoto Shinkai sent out a love call to SHINee's Jonghyun!

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He said, "When I visited Korea last time, I met SHINee's Jonghyun. He was a very respectable young man. I've imagined to myself what if I make a movie and they make the music for it."

Meanwhile, 'Your Name' recently became the highest grossing animated film of all time, also attracting over 3,500,000 viewers in Korea after premiering this past January 4.