Makoto Shinkai

Directing

09 Feb 1973 (53 years)

Koumi, Japan

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 wi...