Makoto Shinkai was born in Nagano Prefecture in 1973. In 2002, he debuted his self-produced short-film Voices of a Distant Star, which won many awards starting with the Tokyo International Anime Fair 21. In 2004, he created his first full-length movie The Place Promised in Our Early Days to great acclaim, which went on to win Best Animated Film at the 59th Mainichi Film Concours. In 2007, he released 5 Centimeters Per Second, which won Best Animated Feature Film at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, as well as the Lancia Platinum Grand Prize at Italy’s Future Film Festival. In 2011, Children Who Chase Lost Voices was released in theaters nationwide and presented internationally as a work unlike the world had ever seen before, winning the “Golden Monkey King” Award at the 8th China International Cartoon and Animation Festival and receiving another nomination for Best Animated Feature Film from APSA. In 2012, he received a Letter of Appreciation from the Cabinet Secretariat’s National Policy Unit as one of the “Global Messengers of Japan”. In 2013, he released The Garden of Words, which won Best Anime Feature Film in Germany’s Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film. In 2016, his newest film your name. won Best Animated Feature Length Film at the 49th Sitges Film Festival and the Best Animated Film at the 42nd Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards. Makoto Shinkai continues to receive acclaim domestically and internationally as one of the next generation of anime film directors.

Accolades

Makoto Shinkai and Genki Kawamura
Best Animated Feature Film, 2019

Weathering With You (Tenki no Ko)

Best Animated Feature Film, 2019

Weathering With You (Tenki no Ko)

It is the first year of high school for Hodaka and he runs away from his home on an outlying island of Japan and goes…

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Genki Kawamura and Noritaka Kawaguchi and Makoto Shinkai
Best Animated Feature Film, 2017

your name. (Kimi no na wa.)

Best Animated Feature Film, 2017

your name. (Kimi no na wa.)

Mitsuha and Taki are total strangers living completely different lives in different parts of Japan. But when Mitsuha makes a wish to leave her quiet…

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Noritaka Kawaguchi and Makoto Shinkai
Best Animated Feature Film, 2007

5 Centimeters Per Second (Byosoku 5 Centimeters)

Best Animated Feature Film, 2007

5 Centimeters Per Second (Byosoku 5 Centimeters)

Winner, Best Animated Feature Film, 2007 5 Centimeters Per Second is a serial short animation consisting of three independent works, all of which are depicted with a…

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Noritaka Kawaguchi and Makoto Shinkai
Best Animated Feature Film, 2011

Children Who Chase Lost Voices From Deep Below (Hoshi o Ou Kodomo)

Best Animated Feature Film, 2011

Children Who Chase Lost Voices From Deep Below (Hoshi o Ou Kodomo)

The film centers on Asuna, a young girl who spends her solitary days listening to the mysterious music emanating from the crystal radio she received…

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Films

Weathering With You
2019

Weathering With You (Tenki no Ko)

Japan
2019

Weathering With You (Tenki no Ko)

It is the first year of high school for Hodaka and he runs away from his home on an outlying island of Japan and goes…

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your name.
2017

your name. (Kimi no na wa.)

Japan
2017

your name. (Kimi no na wa.)

Two high school kids who’ve never met – city boy Taki and country girl Mitsuha – are united through their dreams.

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5 Centimeters Per Second
2007

5 Centimeters Per Second (Byosoku 5 Centimeters)

Japan
2007

5 Centimeters Per Second (Byosoku 5 Centimeters)

Winner, Best Animated Feature Film, 2007 5 Centimeters Per Second is a serial short animation consisting of three independent works, all of which are depicted with…

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Children Who Chase Lost Voices From Deep Below
2011

Children Who Chase Lost Voices From Deep Below (Hoshi o Ou Kodomo)

Japan
2011

Children Who Chase Lost Voices From Deep Below (Hoshi o Ou Kodomo)

The film centers on Asuna, a young girl who spends her solitary days listening to the mysterious music emanating from the crystal radio she received…

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