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.
Filmography
Cast Credits
Making Documentary of "Suzume"
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2024
Voices
Character: 新海诚
TV • 2023
The Making of Weathering with You
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2020
Anime Supernova
Character: Self
TV • 2017
She and Her Cat: Everything Flows
Character: Chobi (voice)
MOVIE • 2016
She and Her Cat: Everything Flows
Character: Chobi (voice)
TV • 2016
Voices of a Distant Star
Character: Noboru Terao (voice)
MOVIE • 2002
She and Her Cat
Character: Chobi / Narrator (voice)
MOVIE • 1999
Crew
Crew Credits
5 Centimeters per Second
Role: Original Film Writer
MOVIE • 2025
Suzume Highlight Film Concert
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2025
Suzume
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2022
Suzume
Role: Editor
MOVIE • 2022
Suzume
Role: Storyboard Artist
MOVIE • 2022
Suzume
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 2022
Weathering with You
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2019
Weathering with You
Role: Storyboard Artist
MOVIE • 2019
Weathering with You
Role: Editor
MOVIE • 2019
Weathering with You
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 2019
Your Name.
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2016
Your Name.
Role: Compositing Artist
MOVIE • 2016
Your Name.
Role: Director of Photography
MOVIE • 2016
Your Name.
Role: Editor
MOVIE • 2016
Your Name.
Role: Storyboard Artist
MOVIE • 2016
Your Name.
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 2016
She and Her Cat: Everything Flows
Role: Original Story
MOVIE • 2016
She and Her Cat: Everything Flows
Role: Original Story
TV • 2016
Cross Road
Role: Art Direction
MOVIE • 2014
Cross Road
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2014