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.
The Place Promised in Our Early Days
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The Place Promised in Our Early Days
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The Place Promised in Our Early Days
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The Place Promised in Our Early Days
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The Place Promised in Our Early Days
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5 Centimeters per Second
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Voices of a Distant Star
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Voices of a Distant Star
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She and Her Cat
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Weathering with You
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The Garden of Words
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Other Worlds
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Children Who Chase Lost Voices
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Children Who Chase Lost Voices
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Children Who Chase Lost Voices
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Children Who Chase Lost Voices
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The Garden of Words
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Someone's Gaze
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Someone's Gaze
(Writer)
Someone's Gaze
(Director)
5 Centimeters per Second
(Background Designer)
Weathering with You
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5 Centimeters per Second
(Color Designer)
Ani*Kuri15
(Director)
Voices of a Distant Star
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Voices of a Distant Star
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Voices of a Distant Star
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Cross Road
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5 Centimeters per Second
(Original Story)
Someone's Gaze
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Weathering with You
(Editor)
Voices of a Distant Star
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Cross Road
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Suzume
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Hiromi Iwasaki: Egao
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The Garden of Words
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Suzume
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Your Name.
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Your Name.
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5 Centimeters per Second
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5 Centimeters per Second
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Suzume
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Children Who Chase Lost Voices
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Weathering with You
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The Place Promised in Our Early Days
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Voices of a Distant Star
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She and Her Cat
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She and Her Cat: Everything Flows
(Original Story)
The Garden of Words
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Your Name.
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Children Who Chase Lost Voices
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The Garden of Words
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Children Who Chase Lost Voices
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Children Who Chase Lost Voices
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Other Worlds
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Enclosed World
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She and Her Cat
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Cross Road
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Other Worlds
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Other Worlds
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Enclosed World
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Cross Road
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Enclosed World
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The Garden of Words
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Enclosed World
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Ani*Kuri15
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Someone's Gaze
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Cross Road
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Ani*Kuri15
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The Place Promised in Our Early Days
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Voices of a Distant Star
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Your Name.
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She and Her Cat
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She and Her Cat
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Voices of a Distant Star
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The Place Promised in Our Early Days
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Voices of a Distant Star
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Ani*Kuri15
(Color Designer)
Ani*Kuri15
(Storyboard Artist)
Ani*Kuri15
(Art Direction)
Ani*Kuri15
(Director of Photography)
The Place Promised in Our Early Days
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She and Her Cat
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Voices of a Distant Star
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She and Her Cat
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Cross Road
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Weathering with You
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Your Name.
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The Garden of Words
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The Garden of Words
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She and Her Cat
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She and Her Cat
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Suzume
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Suzume
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Wind: A Breath of Heart - Christmas Special
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Right Places: Where I Was Meant to Be at That Time
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5 Centimeters per Second
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5 Centimeters per Second
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5 Centimeters per Second
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Your Name.
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Children Who Chase Lost Voices
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Other Worlds
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Cross Road
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Other Worlds
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She and Her Cat
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Your Name.
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5 Centimeters per Second
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Enclosed World
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Enclosed World
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The Place Promised in Our Early Days
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5 Centimeters per Second
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5 Centimeters per Second
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5 Centimeters per Second
(Original Story)
Your Name
(Original Film Writer)
Ani*Kuri15
(Director)
She and Her Cat: Everything Flows
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Ani*Kuri15
(Director of Photography)
Ani*Kuri15
(Background Designer)
Ani*Kuri15
(Color Designer)
Ani*Kuri15
(Art Direction)
Ani*Kuri15
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Wind: A Breath of Heart
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