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.
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)
Voices
(Self)
Anime Supernova
(Self)
She and Her Cat: Everything Flows
(Chobi (voice))
The Place Promised in Our Early Days
(Editor)
The Place Promised in Our Early Days
(Director)
The Place Promised in Our Early Days
(Producer)
The Place Promised in Our Early Days
(Director of Photography)
5 Centimeters per Second
(Director)
Voices of a Distant Star
(Director)
She and Her Cat
(Director)
Weathering with You
(Director)
Other Worlds
(Director)
The Garden of Words
(Storyboard Artist)
Children Who Chase Lost Voices
(Editor)
Children Who Chase Lost Voices
(Director)
Children Who Chase Lost Voices
(Producer)
The Garden of Words
(Director)
Someone's Gaze
(Director)
Someone's Gaze
(Editor)
Someone's Gaze
(Writer)
5 Centimeters per Second
(Background Designer)
5 Centimeters per Second
(Color Designer)
Weathering with You
(Storyboard Artist)
Ani*Kuri15
(Director)
Voices of a Distant Star
(Editor)
Voices of a Distant Star
(Art Direction)
Voices of a Distant Star
(Producer)
Cross Road
(Art Direction)
Someone's Gaze
(Director of Photography)
Voices of a Distant Star
(Director of Photography)
Weathering with You
(Editor)
Cross Road
(Director)
Suzume
(Director)
Suzume
(Editor)
Your Name.
(Director)
Your Name.
(Compositing Artist)
5 Centimeters per Second
(Character Designer)
5 Centimeters per Second
(Storyboard Artist)
She and Her Cat: Everything Flows
(Original Story)
Children Who Chase Lost Voices
(Storyboard Artist)
The Garden of Words
(Background Designer)
Children Who Chase Lost Voices
(Background Designer)
Children Who Chase Lost Voices
(Color Designer)
Other Worlds
(Editor)
Enclosed World
(Editor)
She and Her Cat
(Editor)
Other Worlds
(Director of Photography)
Cross Road
(Director of Photography)
Enclosed World
(Director of Photography)
The Garden of Words
(Director of Photography)
Enclosed World
(Director)
Ani*Kuri15
(Writer)
The Place Promised in Our Early Days
(Color Designer)
Voices of a Distant Star
(Storyboard Artist)
Ani*Kuri15
(Storyboard Artist)
Voices of a Distant Star
(Character Designer)
Ani*Kuri15
(Color Designer)
The Place Promised in Our Early Days
(Background Designer)
The Place Promised in Our Early Days
(Art Designer)
Someone's Gaze
(Storyboard Artist)
She and Her Cat
(Director of Photography)
Ani*Kuri15
(Director of Photography)
She and Her Cat
(Storyboard Artist)
Your Name.
(Director of Photography)
Ani*Kuri15
(Background Designer)
She and Her Cat
(Art Direction)
Ani*Kuri15
(Art Direction)
Voices of a Distant Star
(Animation Director)
She and Her Cat
(Producer)
Cross Road
(Background Designer)
Voices of a Distant Star
(Animation)
Cross Road
(Writer)
Your Name.
(Editor)
The Garden of Words
(Editor)
The Garden of Words
(Color Designer)
She and Her Cat
(Animation)
Suzume
(Storyboard Artist)
Right Places: Where I Was Meant to Be at That Time
(Thanks)
Wind: A Breath of Heart - Christmas Special
(Opening/Ending Animation)
5 Centimeters per Second
(Producer)
5 Centimeters per Second
(Editor)
5 Centimeters per Second
(Art Direction)
Your Name.
(Storyboard Artist)
Children Who Chase Lost Voices
(Director of Photography)
Other Worlds
(Animation)
Cross Road
(Editor)
Other Worlds
(Writer)
She and Her Cat
(Screenplay)
Enclosed World
(Screenplay)
Enclosed World
(Writer)
The Place Promised in Our Early Days
(Sound Director)
5 Centimeters per Second
(Sound Director)
5 Centimeters per Second
(Director of Photography)
Your Name
(Original Film Writer)
Smile
(Director)
5 Centimeters per Second
(Original Film Writer)
Voices of a Distant Star
(Writer)
Weathering with You
(Writer)
Untitled Makoto Shinkai Animated Film
(Director)
Untitled Makoto Shinkai Animated Film
(Writer)
Suzume Highlight Film Concert
(Director)
Your Name.
(Original Story)
Your Name.
(Screenplay)
Weathering with You
(Original Story)
The Garden of Words
(Original Story)
The Garden of Words
(Screenplay)
5 Centimeters per Second
(Screenplay)
5 Centimeters per Second
(Original Story)
Children Who Chase Lost Voices
(Screenplay)
Children Who Chase Lost Voices
(Original Story)
The Place Promised in Our Early Days
(Screenplay)
The Place Promised in Our Early Days
(Original Story)
Voices of a Distant Star
(Original Concept)
Suzume
(Screenplay)
Suzume
(Original Story)
Ani*Kuri15
(Director)
She and Her Cat: Everything Flows
(Original Story)
Ani*Kuri15
(Background Designer)
Ani*Kuri15
(Storyboard Artist)
Ani*Kuri15
(Director of Photography)
Ani*Kuri15
(Color Designer)
Ani*Kuri15
(Art Direction)
Wind: A Breath of Heart
(CG Artist)