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)...show more
Movie Credits
2016
Director, Editor, Storyboard Artist, Screenplay, Compositing Artist, Director of Photography, Original Film Writer
2007
Director, Art Direction, Producer, Editor, Screenplay, Director of Photography, Sound Director, Background Designer, Color Designer, Original Story, Character Designer, Storyboard Artist
2013
Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor, Color Designer, Storyboard Artist, Background Designer, Original Film Writer
2011
Editor, Director, Screenplay, Producer, Director of Photography, Storyboard Artist, Background Designer, Color Designer, Original Film Writer
2002
Noboru Terao (voice), Writer, Director, Editor, Art Direction, Producer, Director of Photography, Character Designer, Storyboard Artist, Animation Director, Animation, Original Film Writer
Movie Credits
TV Show Credits
Director, Director of Photography, Storyboard Artist, Color Designer, Background Designer, Art Direction
