Makoto Shinkai
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1973-02-09 (52 years old)
Place of Birth
Koumi, Japan
Also known As
Макото Шінкай
しんかい まこと
Makoto Niitsu
新海 誠
Shinkai Makoto
Макото Ниицу
ماکوتو شینکای
มาโกโตะ ชินไค
Makoto Shinkai
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 S...
Acting
2002
as Noboru Terao (voice)
1999
as Chobi / Narrator (voice)
2016
as Chobi (voice)
2024
2020
Production
2004
as Director
2004
as Editor
2004
as Director of Photography
2004
as Producer
2004
as Screenplay
2007
as Director
2002
as Director
1999
as Director
2019
as Director
2013
as Storyboard Artist
1999
as Director
2011
as Screenplay
2011
as Producer
2011
as Editor
2011
as Director
2013
as Director
2013
as Editor
2013
as Writer
2013
as Director
2007
as Background Designer
2019
as Storyboard Artist
2007
as Color Designer
2008
as Director
2002
as Editor
2002
as Producer
2002
as Art Direction
2014
as Art Direction
2007
as Original Story
2013
as Director of Photography
2019
as Editor
2002
as Director of Photography
2014
as Director
2022
as Director
2022
as Editor
2016
as Director
2016
as Compositing Artist
2007
as Character Designer
2007
as Storyboard Artist
2016
as Original Story
2011
as Storyboard Artist
2013
as Background Designer
2011
as Color Designer
2011
as Background Designer
1999
as Editor
1998
as Editor
1999
as Editor
2014
as Cinematography
1999
as Director of Photography
1999
as Cinematography
1998
as Cinematography
2014
as Director of Photography
1998
as Director of Photography
2013
as Director of Photography
1998
as Director
2008
as Writer
2013
as Storyboard Artist
2014
as Background Designer
2008
as Background Designer
2004
as Color Designer
2002
as Storyboard Artist
2016
as Director of Photography
1999
as Art Direction
1999
as Storyboard Artist
2002
as Animation
2004
as Art Designer
2002
as Character Designer
2008
as Color Designer
2008
as Storyboard Artist
2008
as Art Direction
2008
as Director of Photography
2004
as Background Designer
1999
as Director of Photography
2002
as Animation Director
1999
as Producer
2014
as Writer
2016
as Editor
2013
as Color Designer
2013
as Editor
1999
as Animation
2022
as Screenplay
2022
as Storyboard Artist
2002
as Opening/Ending Animation
2013
2007
as Producer
2007
as Art Direction
2007
as Editor
2016
as Storyboard Artist
2011
as Director of Photography
1999
as Animation
2014
as Editor
1999
as Writer
1999
as Screenplay
2016
as Screenplay
2007
as Screenplay
1998
as Screenplay
1998
as Writer
2004
as Sound Director
2007
as Sound Director
2007
as Director of Photography
2025
as Original Story
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as Original Film Writer
2022
as Original Story
2019
as Original Story
2019
as Screenplay
2016
as Original Story
2013
as Original Story
2011
as Original Story
2004
as Original Story
2002
as Original Story
2002
as Screenplay
2013
as Screenplay
2025
as Director
2003
as Director
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