The Nikkan Sports newspaper alleged in a report on Tuesday that director Makoto Shinkai (5 Centimeters Per Second, your name.) had an affair with an editor.
Nikkan Sports awarded Shinkai the Best Director award in its Nikkan Sports Movie Award in December.
The film opened in 92 countries and territories around the world, including the United States through Funimation on April 7.
The newspaper asserted that Shinkai met the editor through a mutual friend in spring of 2016, and that their relationship deepened sometime in fall 2016, after the release of Shinkai’s hit film your name..