Portrait of Makoto Bessho

Directing

Makoto Bessho

Career

Active from 1995 to 2025, with up to 2 main titles a year.

Average score
GoodWatch score73/100
Highest rated
Poster for Attack on Titan
Attack on Titan
GoodWatch score93/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 29 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Energy: 5.2 versus catalog average 4.6EnergyHeart: 5.3 versus catalog average 4.2HeartHumor: 2.4 versus catalog average 2.6HumorWorld: 6.1 versus catalog average 5.6WorldCraft: 5.6 versus catalog average 5.3CraftStyle: 7.2 versus catalog average 5.9Style
Makoto Bessho Catalog average

Rarely in their work

  • Contemporary Realism
    3.4, average 5.4
  • Historical
    0.6, average 2.6
  • Crime
    2.1, average 3.6
  • Class & Capitalism
    2.0, average 3.3

Main genres

Select a genre to see those titles.

Recurring tags

  • Emotional Catharsis 2
  • Psychological Drama 2
  • Found Family Themes 2
  • Moral Ambiguity 2
  • Fantasy Adventure 2
  • Coming-of-Age Story 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

10
Type
Role
Score
Decade
Genre
Group by

2020s

2 titles
IDOLiSH7 First BEAT! Movie Edition Part 1
IDOLiSH7 First BEAT! Movie Edition Part 1 (2025)

Director

IDOLiSH7 First BEAT! Movie Edition Part 2
IDOLiSH7 First BEAT! Movie Edition Part 2 (2025)

Director

2010s

2 titles ยท average score 71
Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Odyssey of the Celestial Ark
Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Odyssey of the Celestial Ark (2014)
GoodWatch score 71

Key Animation, Second Unit Director

Eat Miso if You are Sorcerer!
Eat Miso if You are Sorcerer! (2012)

Director

2000s

3 titles ยท average score 67
Bleach the Movie: Memories of Nobody
Bleach the Movie: Memories of Nobody (2006)
GoodWatch score 73

Key Animation

Origin: Spirits of the Past
Origin: Spirits of the Past (2006)
GoodWatch score 63

Key Animation

Brave Story
Brave Story (2006)
GoodWatch score 65

Animation

1990s

2 titles
Elementalors
Elementalors (1995)

Key Animation

Exper Zenon
Exper Zenon (1991)

Key Animation

1980s

1 title
Delpower X Bakuhatsu Miracle Genki!
Delpower X Bakuhatsu Miracle Genki! (1986)

Key Animation