Makoto Shinkai

アニメーション監督　新海 誠

1973年長野県生まれ。アニメーション監督。2002年、個人で制作した短編作品『ほしのこえ』でデビュー。以降『雲のむこう、約束の場所』『秒速5センチメートル』『星を追う子ども』『言の葉の庭』を発表し、次世代の監督として、国内外で高い評価と支持を受けている。16年8月に全国公開された最新作『君の名は。』は、国内動員数1900万人を突破し、世界中でも大ヒットを記録。

Director of animation movies born in Nagano in 1973. Debuted in 2002 with the animated short film “Voices of a Distant Star,” which he undertookalmost single-handedly. He followed this movie with “The Place Promised in Our Early Days,” “5 Centimeters Per Second,” “Children Who ChaseLost Voices,” and “The Garden of Words.” He received much praise in Japan and overseas and was hailed as a ground breaking director. In 2012he received a letter of appreciation from the Cabinet Secretariat National Policy Unit as one of the “Global Messengers of Japan.” In August 2016,his latest movie “your name.” was released, achieved box-office figures of 19 million in Japan and was a record breaking hit on a global scale. Thenovelized version of the movie by himself sold over 1.6 million copies in Japan, becoming a social phenomenon.