Born in Nagano Prefecture in 1973, Makoto Shinkai studied Japanese literature, worked for the games company Falcom and made the short Voices of a Distant Star (2002) almost single-handedly. He founded CoMix Wave Films and made The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004), 5 Centimeters per Second (2007), The Garden of Words (2013), Your Name (2016), Weathering with You (2019) and Suzume (2022). Your Name, a story of two teenagers who swap bodies, became the highest-grossing anime film of all time by 2019.
Filmography
- Voices of a Distant Star (2002)
- The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004)
- 5 Centimeters per Second (2007)
- The Garden of Words (2013)
- Your Name (2016)
- Weathering with You (2019)
- Suzume (2022)