Shinkai, Makoto

Makoto Shinkai was born in Koumi, Nagano.

- Makoto Shinkai, is a Japanese filmmaker and novelist. Also founder of CoMix Wave Films.
- He studied Japanese literature at Chuo University, where he was a member of the juvenile literature club and drew picture books.
- He 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).
- Shinkai then released the science fiction OVA Voices of a Distant Star (2002) as his first feature with CoMix Wave, followed by his debut feature film The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004).
- His three most recent films Your Name (2016), Weathering with You (2019), and Suzume (2022), collectively known as "Disaster trilogy", are all among the highest-grossing Japanese films of all time, both in Japan and worldwide at the time of their release.

Twitter: @shinkaimakoto