Makoto Shinkai Trailers
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Makoto Niitsu (新津 誠, Niitsu Makoto), known as Makoto Shinkai (新海 誠, Shinkai Makoto) is a Japanese animation director, author, and manga artist. Shinkai 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). Beginning his longstanding association with CoMix Wave Films, Shinkai then released the science-fiction OVA Voices of a Distant Star in 2002, and followed this with his debut feature film The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004). Shinkai's second feature film, the romantic drama anthology 5 Centimeters per Second (2007), gained critical acclaim, as did his subsequent releases, the dramas Children Who Chase Lost Voices (2011) and The Garden of Words (2013). Shinkai's 2016 fantasy romance Your Name was a critical and commercial success, becoming the third highest-grossing anime film of all time. His 2019 film, Weathering with You, also achieved similar critical and commercial success. His seventh film, Suzume, was released in Japan in November 2022.
Most Popular Makoto Shinkai Trailers
Total trailers found: 24
01 January 2016
J.J. Abrams and Paramount Pictures have announced they’ll be turning the critically acclaimed Japanese anime Your Name into a live-action film.
01 July 2016
High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places.
11 November 2022
Suzume, 17, lost her mother as a little girl. On her way to school, she meets a mysterious young man.
19 July 2019
The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits.
03 March 2007
Three moments in Takaki's life: his relationship with Akari and their forced separation; his friendship with Kanae, who is secretly in love with him; the demands and disappointments of adulthood, an unhappy life in a cold city.
31 May 2013
Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden.
02 February 2002
It is 2046 when a mysterious alien force begins their annihilation of the human race. Leaving behind the one person she loves, Mikako joins the interstellar battle as a pilot.
07 May 2011
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 from her late father as a memento.
20 November 2004
In a post-war alternative timeline, Japan is divided into the North, controlled by the Union, and the South, controlled by the United States.
10 October 2025
Spring 1991. Takaki and Akari meet in elementary school and continue to exchange letters even after she moves away.
27 May 2020
A thorough account of the process to make Weathering with You. The crew appears to have been given unfettered access to the production allowing for a great walk through something we rarely see, production of an anime feature.
25 February 2014
High school students Miho and Shouta are preparing for college entrance examinations. Miho comes from an island without even one cram school, while Shouta lives in Tokyo and works a part-time job.
21 May 2016
This simple, charming series follows a young woman as she job hunts and experiences various changes in her life, all while her cat Daru remains the supportive constant.
27 December 2002
It's Christmas time, several months after the events of the anime. Tsutomu organizes a last minute Christmas party with everyone at the One Day cafe and Minamo promises to bake a special cake which sends shivers down the spines of Makoto and Hinata.
25 October 2013
The narrator, an unnamed adolescent boy living in the present time in an unspecified part of Japan, begins to notice that he can see strange creatures that no one else seems to be able to see.
01 April 2003
A young woman brought a hamster back to her apartment. While watching the cuteness of the hamster was enjoyable, she suddenly recalled her boyfriend she used to have.
07 June 2008
15 one-minute shorts created by various people from Japan's animation industry. The title of the collection, Ani*Kuri15, is abbreviated from the words "anime" and "creators".
01 October 1999
She and Her Cat details the life of a cat, entirely from the cat's perspective, as it passes time with its owner, a young woman.
08 February 2013
Aya Okamura has been working for two years and has begun living on her own for a job opportunity. With her mother working overseas as a doctor, her father is now living alone with the family's longtime pet cat Mii-san.
02 January 1999
A man and a woman, talking over their relationship.
20 March 2026
Director Makoto Shinkai reminisces with his team about the production process of the animated film "5 Centimeters per Second" and shares memories at the filming locations.
01 January 1998
A short animation by Makoto Shinkai in Lightwave 3D. Inspired by Haruki Murakami's book "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" with music by Tenmon.
10 December 2007
The family cat (Chobi) has had his tail stepped on one too many times and dreams of revenge.
