Who is Makoto Shinkai?
Makoto Shinkai is a Japanese filmmaker and novelist, and a founder of CoMix Wave Films. He is known for anime feature films that pair visually striking animation with romantic stories about teenagers and high school students.
Questions about Makoto Shinkai
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When was Makoto Shinkai born?
Makoto Shinkai was born in 1973, in Koumi, a town in Nagano Prefecture. His family runs a construction company.
How did Makoto Shinkai start his career in animation?
Makoto Shinkai started as a video game animator at Nihon Falcom in 1996, where he worked for five years on video clips and graphic design. He gained recognition as a filmmaker after releasing the short film She and Her Cat in 1999, which won the grand prize at the 12th DoGA CG Animation Contest.
What was Makoto Shinkai's first feature film?
Makoto Shinkai's debut feature film was The Place Promised in Our Early Days, a 90-minute film released in Japan on the 20th of November 2004. His first release under his own studio, CoMix Wave, was the science fiction OVA Voices of a Distant Star in 2002.
What is Makoto Shinkai's Disaster trilogy?
The Disaster trilogy refers to Makoto Shinkai's three most recent films, Your Name (2016), Weathering with You (2019), and Suzume (2022). All three rank among the highest-grossing Japanese films of all time, both in Japan and worldwide.
Why is Makoto Shinkai compared to Hayao Miyazaki?
Reviewers, including Anime Advocates and ActiveAnime, have called Makoto Shinkai "The New Miyazaki" because of his visually rich, emotionally driven anime films. Shinkai has dismissed the comparison as an "overestimation."