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.
25Credits3 TV · 22 films
1998–2025Years activefirst to latest
8.5 Highest ratedYour Name.
6.8 Average ratingacross 21 titles
Top TV shows 3best Makoto Shinkai shows
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She and Her Cat: Everything FlowsChobi (voice) · 1 ep · 2016 - 2
Ani*Kuri15Director · Director of Photography · 1 ep · 2007 - 3
Wind: A Breath of HeartCG Artist · 13 eps · 2004
Top movies 22best Makoto Shinkai movies
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Your Name.Director · Screenplay · 2016 - 2
Weathering with YouDirector · Writer · 2019 - 3
SuzumeDirector · Screenplay · 2022 - 4
5 Centimeters per SecondOriginal Story · 2025 - 5
The Garden of WordsDirector · Screenplay · 2013 - 6
5 Centimeters per SecondDirector · Screenplay · 2007 - 7
Children Who Chase Lost VoicesDirector · Screenplay · 2011 - 8
Someone's GazeDirector · Writer · 2013 - 9
Enclosed WorldDirector · Writer · 1998 - 10
SmileDirector · 2003 - 11
She and Her Cat: Everything FlowsChobi (voice) · 2016 - 12
She and Her CatHer Cat (voice) · 1999 - 13
The Place Promised in Our Early DaysDirector · Screenplay · 2004 - 14
Voices of a Distant StarNoboru Terao (voice) · 2002 - 15
Ani*Kuri15Director · Writer · 2008 - 16
Cross RoadDirector · Writer · 2014 - 17
Right Places: Where I Was Meant to Be at That TimeThanks · 2013 - 18
Other WorldsDirector · Writer · 1999 - 19Your NameOriginal Film Writer
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Wind: A Breath of Heart - Christmas SpecialOpening/Ending Animation · 2002 - 21
A Gathering of CatsDirector · 2007 - 22Untitled Makoto Shinkai Animated FilmDirector · Writer
