Makoto Shinkai

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