Director

Makoto Shinkai

Directing

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Directed credits

Active

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TMDB popularity

2.5

Moderate attention

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Directed movies: 13Directed series: 1All crew credits: 23

TMDB ID: 74091

IMDb ID: nm1396121

Known for: Directing

Born: February 9, 1973

Age: 53

Place of birth: Koumi, Japan

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1998 - 2025

Years active: 28

Average TMDB rating: 6.93

Wikidata: Q335080

Also known as

Макото Шінкай • しんかいまこと • Makoto Niitsu • 新海誠 • Shinkai Makoto • Макото Ниицу • ماکوتو شینکای • มาโกโตะ ชินไค • 新津誠

Frequent jobs

Director (14)Original Story (2)Art Direction (1)CG Artist (1)Editor (1)Opening/Ending Animation (1)Original Film Writer (1)Storyboard Artist (1)Thanks (1)

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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.