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Makoto Shinkai

Literal Translation
Contemporary Japanese anime director known for hyperrealistic background art, weather and light obsession, and the emotional register of longing across distance. Your Name (2016) and Weathering with You (2019). The most commercially successful contemporary anime filmmaker.