Makoto Shinkai

Known for DirectingBorn 1973-02-09 (age 53)Koumi, Japan

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Your Name.

Anime Supernova

Weathering with You

Suzume

5 Centimeters per Second

The Garden of Words

Children Who Chase Lost Voices

5 Centimeters per Second

Someone's Gaze

She and Her Cat: Everything Flows

Smile

Enclosed World

She and Her Cat: Everything Flows

She and Her Cat

The Place Promised in Our Early Days

Voices of a Distant Star

Cross Road

Ani*Kuri15

Right Places: Where I Was Meant to Be at That Time

Ani*Kuri15

Other Worlds

Wind: A Breath of Heart

Memories of a Spring

Making Documentary of "Suzume"

Voices

The Making of Weathering with You

A Gathering of Cats

Wind: A Breath of Heart - Christmas Special

Your Name

Untitled Makoto Shinkai Animated Film