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 sciencefiction OVA Voices of a Distant Star in 2002 and followed this with his debut feature film The Place Promised in Our Early Days 2004 Shinkais 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 Shinkais 2016 fantasy romance Your Name was a critical and commercial success becoming the third highestgrossing 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