1973 - Today
Makoto Niitsu (新津 誠, Niitsu Makoto, born February 9, 1973), also known as Makoto Shinkai (新海 誠, Shinkai Makoto), is a Japanese animator, filmmaker and manga artist best known for directing Your Name, the third highest-grossing anime film of all time and 2019's Weathering With You, among other works such as The Garden of Words, Children Who Chase Lost Voices and 5 Centimeters per Second. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Makoto Shinkai has received more than 3,098,216 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Makoto Shinkai is the 303rd most popular film director (up from 402nd in 2019), the 459th most popular biography from Japan (up from 624th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Japanese Film Director.
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Among film directors, Makoto Shinkai ranks 303 out of 1,580. Before him are Oskar Fischinger, Béla Tarr, King Vidor, Richard Brooks, Ishirō Honda, and Alf Sjöberg. After him are Leo McCarey, Edward Dmytryk, Bigas Luna, Tobe Hooper, Walter Lantz, and Shin Sang-ok.
1900 - 1967
HPI: 67.01
Rank: 297
1955 - Present
HPI: 67.01
Rank: 298
1894 - 1982
HPI: 66.99
Rank: 299
1912 - 1992
HPI: 66.96
Rank: 300
1911 - 1993
HPI: 66.94
Rank: 301
1903 - 1980
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 302
1973 - Present
HPI: 66.88
Rank: 303
1898 - 1969
HPI: 66.86
Rank: 304
1908 - 1999
HPI: 66.86
Rank: 305
1946 - 2013
HPI: 66.86
Rank: 306
1943 - 2017
HPI: 66.85
Rank: 307
1899 - 1994
HPI: 66.84
Rank: 308
1926 - 2006
HPI: 66.84
Rank: 309
Among people born in 1973, Makoto Shinkai ranks 24. Before him are Monica Seles, Marco Materazzi, Jan Koller, Thomas Tuchel, Rüştü Reçber, and Ryan Giggs. After him are Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway, Andrew Lincoln, Lena Headey, Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway, Vera Farmiga, and Queen Mathilde of Belgium.
1973 - Present
HPI: 67.24
Rank: 18
1973 - Present
HPI: 67.23
Rank: 19
1973 - Present
HPI: 67.21
Rank: 20
1973 - Present
HPI: 67.15
Rank: 21
1973 - Present
HPI: 67.12
Rank: 22
1973 - Present
HPI: 66.99
Rank: 23
1973 - Present
HPI: 66.88
Rank: 24
1973 - Present
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 25
1973 - Present
HPI: 66.58
Rank: 26
1973 - Present
HPI: 66.56
Rank: 27
1973 - Present
HPI: 66.51
Rank: 28
1973 - Present
HPI: 66.49
Rank: 29
1973 - Present
HPI: 66.44
Rank: 30
Among people born in Japan, Makoto Shinkai ranks 459 out of 5,560. Before him are Takeo Wakabayashi (1907), Emperor Heizei (773), Hibari Misora (1937), Ōyama Iwao (1842), Tokugawa Ietsuna (1641), and Kiichi Miyazawa (1919). After him are Masuzo Madono (null), Chōsokabe Motochika (1539), Noboru Takeshita (1924), Kunisada (1786), Rihei Sano (1912), and Chūya Nakahara (1907).
1907 - 1937
HPI: 66.90
Rank: 453
773 - 824
HPI: 66.90
Rank: 454
1937 - 1989
HPI: 66.89
Rank: 455
1842 - 1916
HPI: 66.88
Rank: 456
1641 - 1680
HPI: 66.88
Rank: 457
1919 - 2007
HPI: 66.88
Rank: 458
1973 - Present
HPI: 66.88
Rank: 459
HPI: 66.88
Rank: 460
1539 - 1599
HPI: 66.87
Rank: 461
1924 - 2000
HPI: 66.87
Rank: 462
1786 - 1865
HPI: 66.86
Rank: 463
1912 - 1992
HPI: 66.85
Rank: 464
1907 - 1937
HPI: 66.82
Rank: 465
Among film directors born in Japan, Makoto Shinkai ranks 12. Before him are Kenji Mizoguchi (1898), Nagisa Oshima (1932), Masaki Kobayashi (1916), Shohei Imamura (1926), Franklin J. Schaffner (1920), and Ishirō Honda (1911). After him are Kon Ichikawa (1915), Mikio Naruse (1905), Satoshi Kon (1963), Mamoru Oshii (1951), Hideaki Anno (1960), and Kinji Fukasaku (1930).
1898 - 1956
HPI: 72.78
Rank: 6
1932 - 2013
HPI: 70.22
Rank: 7
1916 - 1996
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 8
1926 - 2006
HPI: 69.82
Rank: 9
1920 - 1989
HPI: 68.69
Rank: 10
1911 - 1993
HPI: 66.94
Rank: 11
1973 - Present
HPI: 66.88
Rank: 12
1915 - 2008
HPI: 66.55
Rank: 13
1905 - 1969
HPI: 66.55
Rank: 14
1963 - 2010
HPI: 66.35
Rank: 15
1951 - Present
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 16
1960 - Present
HPI: 65.74
Rank: 17
1930 - 2003
HPI: 65.65
Rank: 18