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Makoto Shinkai

Makoto Shinkai

Director · Born 1973-02-09 · Koumi, Japan

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Biography

Makoto Niitsu (新津 誠, Niitsu Makoto), known as Makoto Shinkai (新海 誠, Shinkai Makoto) is a Japanese animation director, author, and manga artist. Shinkai began his career as a video game animator with Nihon Falcom in 1996, and gained recognition as a filmmaker with the release of the original video animation (OVA) She and Her Cat (1999). Beginning his longstanding association with CoMix Wave Films, Shinkai then released the science-fiction OVA Voices of a Distant Star in 2002, and followed this with his debut feature film The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004). Shinkai's second feature film, the romantic drama anthology 5 Centimeters per Second (2007), gained critical acclaim, as did his subsequent releases, the dramas Children Who Chase Lost Voices (2011) and The Garden of Words (2013). Shinkai's 2016 fantasy romance Your Name was a critical and commercial success, becoming the third highest-grossing anime film of all time. His 2019 film, Weathering with You, also achieved similar critical and commercial success. His seventh film, Suzume, was released in Japan in November 2022.

Directed

  1. Your Name. (2016) — Director
  2. Weathering with You (2019) — Director
  3. The Garden of Words (2013) — Director
  4. 5 Centimeters per Second (2007) — Director
  5. Suzume (2022) — Director
  6. Children Who Chase Lost Voices (2011) — Director
  7. The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004) — Director
  8. Voices of a Distant Star (2002) — Director
  9. She and Her Cat (1999) — Director
  10. Someone's Gaze (2013) — Director
  11. Cross Road (2014) — Director
  12. Other Worlds (1999) — Director
  13. Ani*Kuri15 (2007) — Director
  14. Ani*Kuri15 (2008) — Director
  15. Enclosed World (1998) — Director
  16. Smile (2003) — Director
  17. Untitled Makoto Shinkai Animated Film — Director
  18. A Gathering of Cats (2007) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Voices of a Distant Star (2002) — Noboru Terao (voice)
  2. She and Her Cat (1999) — Her Cat (voice)
  3. She and Her Cat: Everything Flows (2016) — Chobi (voice)
  4. She and Her Cat: Everything Flows (2016) — Chobi (voice)
  5. Anime Supernova (2017) — Self
  6. Making Documentary of "Suzume" (2024) — Self
  7. The Making of Weathering with You (2020) — Self
  8. Memories of a Spring (2026) — Himself
  9. Voices (2023) — Self