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'Suzume' director Makoto Shinkai reveals how he created the sci-fi adventure out of a real-life disaster.

LOS ANGELES — Makoto Shinkai knows the 2011 Tohoku earthquake changed him.

"This world is not for the ordinary!" says an elderly character in Makoto Shinkai’s latest anime. And ‘ordinary’ is the last word you would apply to a rich and spectacular fantasy that combines the Your Name director’s trademark photorealism with the sort of whimsical shape-shifting and elaborate alternate-world building that…

The latest film from Your Name director Makoto Shinkai released last week

A schoolgirl and a haunted chair waft through a land of sunsets and cherry blossom in this fleeting tale set in the wake of the 2011 tsunami

Admirers of the gifted Japanese writer-director Makoto Shinkai will recognize his touch from the opening moments of his often entrancing new animated feature, "Suzume." An affecting story about love and salvation, loss and memory, the movie opens on a dark-blue sky kissed by pastel-sunset pinks and purples, with stars that…

The director of Suzume talks three-legged chairs, trauma, and natural disasters

Makoto Shinkai doesn’t yet know the story he will tell in his next film, only that it will be about what he knows best

Inspired by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, director Makoto Shinkai crafts a story where the characters draw on their memories to avert disaster.

New releases that hit Thai cinemas for your viewing pleasure.

Makoto Shinkai was never the same filmmaker after the 2011 earthquake stuck Japan