Shinkai Makoto is an anime director whose films are known for the hyperrealistic beauty of their background art, but also for their star-crossed lovers and the way they play with time. Shinkai's films are often considered "sekai-kei"; that is, the world may be in crisis, but we see this crisis from the point of view of individual lives. In this module, we will watch several films, based on availability, as per the proposed outline below.

The module will follow an 8-session structure as shown below:

Outline	8-Session Structure
Week 1	Session 1: Biography, influences, context, short films, and Voices of a Distant Star
	Session 2: The Place Promised in Our Early Days
Week 2	Session 3: 5 Centimeters per Second
	Session 4: Your Name
Week 3	Session 5: Your Name, continued
	Session 6: Weathering With You
Week 4	Session 7: Weathering with You, continued
	Session 8: Suzume