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'''Makoto Shinkai''' (新海 誠, ''Shinkai Makoto''), birth name Makoto Niitsu (新津 誠, ''Niitsu Makoto''), is a Japanese director best known for creating productions possessing incredible [[Scenery Porn|artwork]], each involving [[Bittersweet Ending|bittersweet]] plots about the distance between his romantic leads. He used to work at [[Nihon Falcom]] before becoming easily the most famous of the creators under CoMix Wave Films animation studio.
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* ''[[Your Name]]'' (2016)
* ''[[Weathering with You]]'' (2019)
* ''[[Suzume_(film)|Suzume
* A variety of commercials
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* [[Long Title]]: Most of the productions have rather long titles. In particular, ''Five Centimeters Per Second'''s proper title is ''5 Centimeters Per Second: A Chain Of Short Stories About Their Distance''.
* [[One-Man Army]]: Makoto Shinkai did everything, save the music and the female lead's voice, in ''Voices Of A Distant Star''. In his subsequent works, he has had a production team helping him.
* [[Production Posse]]
** Worked with Tenmon from ''Distant Star'' to ''Lost Voices''. Why they parted ways subsequently isn't known to any English-language source.
** Worked with Kana Hanazawa from ''Garden'' onwards.
** Worked with RADWIMPS and Ryuunosuke Kamiki from ''Your Name'' onwards.
* [[Real Place Background]]: Many of the publicly-accessible locales featured in Shinkai's works are actual locations that have drawn large numbers of pilgrims after their release.
* [[Scenery Porn]]: This is a given in his works -- consider that his art has a tendency to make ''[[Real Life]]'' appear dreary and low-resolution. In particular, the art in ''Five Centimeters Per Second'' [[Up to Eleven|surpasses]] those of his previous works: see [[Scenery Porn]] and [[Cherry Blossom]] trope images.
* [[Urban Fantasy]]: Starting from ''Lost Voices'', most of his works combine fantasy and supernatural elements with a [[Like Reality Unless Noted]] modern setting.
* [[Write What You Know]]: In [https://www.nippon.com/en/people/e00107/ this interview], he expresses the view that he is depicting a local world familiar to people's lived experiences. His residence in Tokyo informs his use of it, and his major in Japanese literature shows up in several of his works. In his own (translated) words:
{{quote|I can’t draw anything with a sense of reality if it doesn’t come from a place I’m connected to with my own two feet.}}
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