Makoto Shinkai Retrospective Gallery Comes To LA November 19

Japanese filmmaker Makoto Shinkai has rocketed to anime stardom in recent years thanks to being the director of Your Name and the films after it (like that one about the guy who turns into a chair). But his career actually stretches back farther than that, and a new one-day pop-up exhibit arranged by Crunchyroll will display the man’s full filmography.

Shinkai actually started back in 2002 with the film “Voices of a Distant Star.” You’ll be able to get a close-up look at materials from this and all his other movies in the exhibit: initial proposals, early design sketches, storyboards, animation renderings, and final film materials. Next to the exhibit, the Academy Museum’s Ted Mann Theater will be playing an accompanying Makoto Shinkai film retrospective. At 10:30am Weathering with You will play, at 1:30pm a private screening of Suzume, and at 5:15pm Your Name will screen.

Makoto Shinkai is one of Japan’s leading animators and has been writing, animating and directing films for over 20 years. His recent full-length animated films, Your Name. (2016) and Weathering with You (2019) and this year’s Suzume (2023), have been attracting huge audiences and gaining critical acclaim around the world. Combining imaginative storytelling with exquisitely textured animation, Shinkai explores themes like loneliness, distance, loss and longing, and our complex relationship with the natural world. His masterfully conceived real and science fiction worlds are filled with characters whose journeys and emotions resonate within us all. 

Here’s where to find it:

MAKOTO SHINKAI: A Journey from “A Voices of a Distant Star” through “Suzume”
Presented by Crunchyroll

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Private Pop-up Gallery Installation & Accompanying Film Retrospective
Sunday, November 19, 2023
11:30am – 3:00pm

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