Xin Haicheng

Shinkai Makoto (Japanese: Shinkai Makoto/Shinkai Makoto, Romanized: Shinkai Makoto, February 9, 1973 -), whose real name is Shinkai Makoto (Shinkai Makoto/when Makoto, Niitsu Makoto), is a Japanese animation director and screenwriter. Makoto Shinkai was born in a rural area in Omi Town, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. He loved drawing and writing stories since he was a child. When he grew up, he went to Tokyo to attend university and graduated from the Faculty of Literature of Chuo University in 1996. Then he worked for the game company Japan Falcom, mainly responsible for graphic design, but also learned to make videos. Since 1997, Makoto Shinkai has independently produced three animated short films, of which "Her and Her Cat" (2000) is his first official film. The film received good results from public sales and became an opportunity for Makoto Shinkai to establish cooperation with CoMix Wave Films. In 2001, Xin Haicheng resigned from his regular job and concentrated on completing the 25-minute short film "Voice of the Stars" alone. After the film was released in 2002, it became a best-seller and won several awards. Xin Haicheng gained fame and fortune and began to attract attention. Afterwards, Makoto Shinkai tried to produce feature films of more than one hour, and organized an animation team to cope with the larger workload, but he still handled the scripts and storyboards. He successively released "Beyond the Clouds, The Promised Place" (2004), "5 Centimeters Per Second" (2007) and "Children Chasing Stars" (2011), all three of which have award-winning records. Among them, "Children Chasing Stars" was Makoto Shinkai's biggest work at the time, but it became a box office bomb after it was released. Makoto Shinkai began to focus more on audience acceptance with "The Garden of Words" (2013), which eventually achieved good box office success and launched his cooperation with mainstream film studio Toho. Toho's producer Genki Kawamura became the planner of Makoto Shinkai's subsequent works, and they released "Your Name" three years apart. "(2016), "Weathering With You" (2019) and "Suzuya's Journey" (2022). "Your name. "" sold 25.1 billion yen in one fell swoop, bringing a breakthrough to Makoto Shinkai's career. The subsequent two works failed to reproduce this result, but they both had a box office of more than 14 billion yen. These three films are all thematically related to the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, and are collectively referred to as the "Disaster Trilogy" by some media. In terms of story selection, Xin Haicheng drew inspiration from many aspects, including his own life experience, and