Makoto Shinkai
Writer · Cast · Director
- Born
- February 9, 1973 · Koumi, Japan
- Birth name
- Makoto Niitsu
Makoto Shinkai is a Japanese filmmaker and novelist known for his visually stunning anime films produced with CoMix Wave Films. Starting as a video game animator, he gained recognition with Voices of a Distant Star (2002) and The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004). His major hits include Your Name (2016), Weathering with You (2019), and Suzume (2022), collectively called the “Disaster trilogy,” all among Japan’s highest-grossing films.
Writer
- 20255 Centimeters Per Second
- 2022Suzume
- 2019Weathering with You
- 2016Your Name.
- 2016She and Her Cat: Everything Flows
- 2014Cross Road
- 2013Someone's Gaze
- 2013The Garden of Words
- 2011Children Who Chase Lost Voices
- 20075 Centimeters Per Second
- 2007Ani*Kuri15
- 2004The Place Promised in Our Early Days
- 2002Voices of a Distant Star
- 1999She and Her Cat: Their Standing Points
- —Your Name
Cast
- 2023Beau gesteSelf
- 2013CliqueSelf
- 2007Shinkai Makoto InterviewSelf
- 2002Voices of a Distant StarNoboru Terao (original version) (voice)
- 1999She and Her Cat: Their Standing PointsHer Cat (voice)
- 1991Días de cineSelf - Interviewee
Director
- 2022Suzume
- 2019Weathering with You
- 2016Your Name.
- 2014Cross Road
- 2013Someone's Gaze
- 2013The Garden of Words
- 2011Children Who Chase Lost Voices
- 20075 Centimeters Per Second
- 2007Ani*Kuri15
- 2004The Place Promised in Our Early Days
- 2002Voices of a Distant Star
- 1999Other Worlds
- 1999She and Her Cat: Their Standing Points
- 1998The World be Enclosed