Known For
Directing
Born
Feb 09, 1973
Place of Birth
Koumi, Japan
Credits
30 titles
Makoto Shinkai
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.
Known For
Filmography
Memories of a Spring
Himself
5 Centimeters per Second
Original Story
Making Documentary of "Suzume"
Self
Voices
Self
Suzume
Director
The Making of Weathering with You
Self
Weathering with You
Director
Anime Supernova
Self
Your Name.
Director
She and Her Cat: Everything Flows
Chobi (voice)
She and Her Cat: Everything Flows
Chobi (voice)
Cross Road
Art Direction
Right Places: Where I Was Meant to Be at That Time
Thanks
The Garden of Words
Storyboard Artist
Someone's Gaze
Director
Children Who Chase Lost Voices
Editor
Ani*Kuri15
Director
A Gathering of Cats
Director
Ani*Kuri15
Director
5 Centimeters per Second
Director
The Place Promised in Our Early Days
Editor
Wind: A Breath of Heart
CG Artist
Smile
Director
Wind: A Breath of Heart - Christmas Special
Opening/Ending Animation
Voices of a Distant Star
Noboru Terao (voice)
She and Her Cat
Her Cat (voice)
Other Worlds
Director
Enclosed World
Editor
Your Name
Original Film Writer
Untitled Makoto Shinkai Animated Film
Director