Makoto Shinkai
3 titles · japanese contemporary
Distance rendered in light. Shinkai animates skies, weather and city surfaces with obsessive detail and builds stories around people separated by time, space or catastrophe.
Signature
- Photorealistic skies, rain and lens flare.
- Separation across distance or time as the central obstacle.
- Pop-song montage sequences carrying elapsed time.
- Rural and urban Japan contrasted.
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