Makoto Shinkaiborn 1973
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Director
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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.
Credits
2022
Adventure • Animation • Drama • Fantasy
Director, Editor, Storyboard Artist, Screenplay, Original Story
2019
Animation • Drama • Fantasy • Romance
Director, Storyboard Artist, Editor, Original Story, Screenplay
2016
Animation • Drama • Romance
Director, Compositing Artist, Director of Photography, Editor, Storyboard Artist, Screenplay, Original Story
2014
Animation
Art Direction, Director, Cinematography, Director of Photography, Background Designer, Writer, Editor
2013
Animation • Drama • Romance
Storyboard Artist, Director, Background Designer, Director of Photography, Editor, Color Designer, Original Story, Screenplay
2013
Animation • Drama • Science Fiction
Director, Editor, Writer, Director of Photography, Storyboard Artist
2011
Adventure • Animation • Family • Fantasy
Editor, Director, Screenplay, Producer, Storyboard Artist, Background Designer, Color Designer, Director of Photography, Original Story
2008
Adventure • Animation • Comedy • Drama • Family • Fantasy
Director, Writer, Storyboard Artist, Color Designer, Director of Photography, Background Designer, Art Direction
2007
Animation • Drama • Romance
Director, Background Designer, Color Designer, Original Story, Character Designer, Storyboard Artist, Producer, Editor, Art Direction, Screenplay, Sound Director, Director of Photography
2004
Adventure • Animation • Drama • Romance • Science Fiction
Editor, Director, Producer, Screenplay, Director of Photography, Color Designer, Background Designer, Art Designer, Sound Director, Original Story
2002
Animation • Romance • Science Fiction
Director, Editor, Art Direction, Producer, Director of Photography, Storyboard Artist, Character Designer, Animation Director, Animation, Original Story, Screenplay
1999
Animation
Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Storyboard Artist, Art Direction, Producer, Animation, Screenplay
1999
Animation • Drama • Romance
Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Cinematography, Animation, Writer
1998
Animation • Drama
Editor, Cinematography, Director of Photography, Director, Screenplay, Writer
