Makoto Shinkai

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.

Cast

Voices of a Distant Star

Noboru Terao (voice)

She and Her Cat

Chobi / Narrator (voice)

She and Her Cat: Everything Flows

Chobi (voice)

Making Documentary of "Suzume"

Self

The Making of Weathering with You

Self

Crew

The Place Promised in Our Early Days

Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Producer, Color Designer, Art Designer, Background Designer, Sound Director, Screenplay, Original Story

5 Centimeters per Second

Director, Background Designer, Color Designer, Character Designer, Storyboard Artist, Producer, Art Direction, Editor, Sound Director, Director of Photography, Screenplay, Original Story

Voices of a Distant Star

Director, Editor, Producer, Art Direction, Director of Photography, Storyboard Artist, Animation, Character Designer, Animation Director, Writer, Original Concept

She and Her Cat

Director, Editor, Art Direction, Storyboard Artist, Director of Photography, Producer, Animation, Screenplay

Weathering with You

Director, Storyboard Artist, Editor, Writer, Original Story

The Garden of Words

Storyboard Artist, Director, Background Designer, Director of Photography, Color Designer, Editor, Original Story, Screenplay

Other Worlds

Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Cinematography, Animation, Writer

Children Who Chase Lost Voices

Producer, Editor, Director, Storyboard Artist, Color Designer, Background Designer, Director of Photography, Screenplay, Original Story

Someone's Gaze

Editor, Writer, Director, Director of Photography, Storyboard Artist

Ani*Kuri15

Director, Writer, Background Designer, Color Designer, Storyboard Artist, Art Direction, Director of Photography

Cross Road

Art Direction, Director, Cinematography, Director of Photography, Background Designer, Writer, Editor

Suzume

Director, Editor, Storyboard Artist, Screenplay, Original Story

Your Name.

Director, Compositing Artist, Director of Photography, Editor, Storyboard Artist, Original Story, Screenplay

She and Her Cat: Everything Flows

Original Story

Enclosed World

Editor, Cinematography, Director of Photography, Director, Screenplay, Writer

Wind: A Breath of Heart - Christmas Special

Opening/Ending Animation

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

Thanks

Your Name

Original Film Writer

Smile

Director

5 Centimeters per Second

Original Film Writer

Untitled Makoto Shinkai Animated Film

Director, Writer

Suzume Highlight Film Concert

Director