
Makoto Shinkai
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.
Acting (4 movies)
Directing (16 movies)

The Place Promised in Our Early Days
2004

5 Centimeters per Second
2007

Voices of a Distant Star
2002

She and Her Cat
1999

Weathering with You
2019

Other Worlds
1999

Children Who Chase Lost Voices
2011

The Garden of Words
2013

Someone's Gaze
2013

Ani*Kuri15
2008

Cross Road
2014

Suzume
2022

Your Name.
2016

Enclosed World
1998

Smile
2003

Suzume Highlight Film Concert
2025
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Enclosed World | 1998 | Screenplay |
| Enclosed World | 1998 | Writer |
| Other Worlds | 1999 | Writer |
| She and Her Cat | 1999 | Producer |
| She and Her Cat | 1999 | Screenplay |
| Voices of a Distant Star | 2002 | Producer |
| Voices of a Distant Star | 2002 | Writer |
| The Place Promised in Our Early Days | 2004 | Producer |
| The Place Promised in Our Early Days | 2004 | Writer |
| 5 Centimeters per Second | 2007 | Producer |
| 5 Centimeters per Second | 2007 | Writer |
| Ani*Kuri15 | 2008 | Writer |
| Children Who Chase Lost Voices | 2011 | Producer |
| Children Who Chase Lost Voices | 2011 | Writer |
| Someone's Gaze | 2013 | Writer |
| The Garden of Words | 2013 | Writer |
| Cross Road | 2014 | Writer |
| Your Name. | 2016 | Writer |
| Weathering with You | 2019 | Writer |
| Suzume | 2022 | Writer |

