Makoto Shinkai
Directing
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.
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Movies (21)
- Memories of a Spring2026Himself
Making Documentary of "Suzume"2024Self
Suzume2022Directing- The Making of Weathering with You2020Self
Weathering with You2019Directing
Your Name.2016Directing
She and Her Cat: Everything Flows2016Chobi (voice)
Cross Road2014Directing
The Garden of Words2013Directing
Someone's Gaze2013Directing
Children Who Chase Lost Voices2011Directing
Ani*Kuri152008Directing
A Gathering of Cats2007Directing
5 Centimeters per Second2007Directing
The Place Promised in Our Early Days2004Directing
Smile2003Directing
Voices of a Distant Star2002Noboru Terao (voice)
She and Her Cat1999Her Cat (voice)
Other Worlds1999Directing
Enclosed World1998Directing- Untitled Makoto Shinkai Animated FilmDirecting
Shows (4)
Voices2023Self
Anime Supernova2017Self
She and Her Cat: Everything Flows2016Chobi (voice)
Ani*Kuri152007Directing