Makoto Shinkai

, born as , is a Japanese movie director, writer, producer, animator, editor, cinematographer, voice actor, manga artist and former graphic designer. He directed the highest-earning anime movie _Your Name_.

## Biography

Shinkai was born in Nagano Prefecture. He went to Chuo University where he studied Japanese literature. He was a part of the literature club there and he drew picture books there. He said that he liked creating because he had read manga, novels and had watched anime when he was young. After finishing university in 1994, he got a job at Falcom. It is a video game company. He worked there for 5 years by making video clips.

In 1999, Shinkai released _She and Her Cat_. It is a five-minute short movie that is black and white. It won many awards. It won the grand prize at the 12th DoGA CG Animation contest (2000). The short movie is about the life of a cat. It is from the cat's point of view. Shinkai quit his job at Falcom after winning the prize. He began making a new movie about a girl in space, which was called _Voices of a Distant Star_. After, he released his first full movie. It was called _The Place Promised in Our Early Days_ and was released in Japan on November 20, 2004. His next movie was called _5 Centimeters per Second_ and was released on 3 March 2007. It consists of three short films called _Cherry Blossom_, _Cosmonaut_, and _5 Centimeters per Second_.

In 2009, he started to work on his next movie. Shinkai said that the movie he was making would be his longest movie that he made and said the story was a "lively" animated movie that would have adventure, action, and romance. He revealed that his next movie would be called _Children Who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below_. The movie was released on 7 May 2011. His next movie, _The Garden of Words_, was released on 31 May 2013. On 26 August 2016, he released _Your Name_, which was praised by audiences. It became the highest-grossing anime movie. Shinkai directed the 2019 anime movie _Weathering With You_.

### Movies

|scope="col" rowspan="2"|Title|scope="col" rowspan="2"|Year|scope="col" colspan="5"|Credited as|scope="col" rowspan="2"|Role|scope="col" rowspan="2"|Notes||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1998||style="background:#d3d3d3;"||style="background:#d3d3d3;"|||style="background:#d3d3d3;"||style="background:#d3d3d3;"||Short film||
|1998||style="background:#d3d3d3;"||style="background:#d3d3d3;"|||style="background:#d3d3d3;"||style="background:#d3d3d3;"||Short film||
|1999|||style="background:#d3d3d3;"||||Her cat (Voice over)|Short film|||||
|2002||||style="background:#d3d3d3;"|||Noboru Terao (Voice over)|Short film|||||
|2003||style="background:#d3d3d3;"||style="background:#d3d3d3;"||style="background:#d3d3d3;"||style="background:#d3d3d3;"||style="background:#d3d3d3;"||Short film|
|2004|||||style="background:#d3d3d3;"||style="background:#d3d3d3;"||||||
|2007|||||style="background:#d3d3d3;"||style="background:#d3d3d3;"||||||
|2011||||style="background:#d3d3d3;"||style="background:#d3d3d3;"||style="background:#d3d3d3;"|||||
|2013||style="background:#d3d3d3;"||style="background:#d3d3d3;"||style="background:#d3d3d3;"||style="background:#d3d3d3;"||style="background:#d3d3d3;"||Short film|
|2013|||style="background:#d3d3d3;"|||style="background:#d3d3d3;"||style="background:#d3d3d3;"|||||
|2016|||style="background:#d3d3d3;"|||style="background:#d3d3d3;"||style="background:#d3d3d3;"|||||
|2019|||style="background:#d3d3d3;"|||style="background:#d3d3d3;"||style="background:#d3d3d3;"|||||
|style="text-align:center;"|2022|||style="background:#d3d3d3;"|||style="background:#d3d3d3;"||||||

### Video games

|scope="col" rowspan="2"|Title|scope="col" rowspan="2"|Year|scope="col" colspan="3"|Credited as|scope="col" rowspan="2"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1999||style="background:#d3d3d3;"||style="background:#d3d3d3;"||As Makoto Niitsu||
|2000||style="background:#d3d3d3;"||style="background:#d3d3d3;"||As Makoto Niitsu||
|2001||style="background:#d3d3d3;"||style="background:#d3d3d3;"||||
|2002–04|||style="background:#d3d3d3;"|||||
|2004||style="background:#d3d3d3;"||style="background:#d3d3d3;"||||
|2006 2008||style="background:#d3d3d3;"||style="background:#d3d3d3;"||||

### Books

|scope="col"|Title|scope="col"|Year|scope="col"|Publisher|scope="col"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1994||Picture-book||||||
|2007|Media Factory|Novel||||||
|2014|Kadokawa Shoten|Novel||||||
|2016|Kadokawa|Novel||||||

### Manga

|scope="col"|Title|scope="col"|Year|scope="col"|Publisher(s)|scope="col"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2002||||||||
|2004|Kodansha|||||||
|2006|Kodansha|||||||
|2010–11|Kodansha Vertical, Inc.|||||||
|2011|Media Factory|||||||
|2013|Kodansha Vertical, Inc.|||||||
|2016|Media Factory|||||||

## Other websites

- Official website

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Makoto Shinkai
- **image**: Makoto Shinkhai in Moscow.JPG
- **caption**: Shinkai in 2013
- **birth name**: Makoto Niitsu
- **birth place**: Koumi, Nagano, Japan
- **occupation**: Director, writer, producer, animator, editor, cinematographer, voice actor, manga artist
- **spouse**: Misaka Ikko
- **known for**: _Voices of a Distant Star_
_The Place Promised in Our Early Days_
_5 Centimeters per Second_
_Children Who Chase Lost Voices_
_The Garden of Words_
_Your Name._
_Weathering with You_
- **signature**: Makoto Shinkai signature.png