His favorite anime films are Laputa: Castle in the Sky, Nausicaä and The Castle of Cagliostro by Hayao Miyazaki, The End of Evangelion by Hideaki Anno and Patlabor 2 by Mamoru Oshii.Īfter graduating from Chuo University Faculty of Literature in March 1996, he got a job at Falcom, a video game company where he worked for 5 years making video clips for games and graphic design including web content. He traces his passion for creation to the manga, anime and novels he was exposed to in middle school.
Early life Ī native of Nagano Prefecture, Shinkai studied Japanese literature at Chuo University, where he was a member of the juvenile literature club and drew picture books. Shinkai's most recent three films Your Name (2016), Weathering with You (2019), and Suzume (2022) were all critical and commercial successes, with each being among the top ten highest-grossing Japanese films of all time both in Japan and worldwide at the time of their release. 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). 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 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).
Makoto Shinkai ( 新海 誠, Shinkai Makoto), is a Japanese animator, filmmaker, author, and manga artist. Makoto Niitsu ( 新津 誠, Niitsu Makoto, born February 9, 1973), known as
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