Nizou Yamamoto
Director
27 de junio de 1953 — 19 de agosto de 2023 (70 años)
Nizou Yamamoto (山本 二三, Yamamoto Nizō) was born on 27 June 1953 in Fukue-shi (a town within Gotou City [Gotou-shi]), in Nagasaki Prefecture, and was one of the most well-known anime art directors and background artists in Japan. He was especially famous for his work on several of the Studio Ghibli films directed or produced by Hayao Miyazaki or Isao Takahata including Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986), Grave of the Fireflies (1988), Only Yesterday (1991), Whisper of the Heart (1995), Princess Mononoke (1997), and Spirited Away (2001).
Filmography
| 2007 |
| 2024 | Sherlock Hound: The Movie · as Art Direction |
| 2006 | The Girl Who Leapt Through Time · as Art Direction |
| 2004 | Fantastic Children · as Art Direction |
| 1997 | Princess Mononoke · as Art Direction |
| 1995 | Magnetic Rose · as Art Director |
| 1995 | Magnetic Rose · as Art Director |
| 1995 | Lupin the Third: Greatest Capers · as Art Direction |
| 1993 | Coo: Come from a Distant Ocean Coo · as Art Direction |
| 1989 | Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland · as Art Direction |
| 1988 | Grave of the Fireflies · as Art Direction |
| 1987 | Robot Carnival · as Art Director |
| 1987 | The Story of Yanagawa Waterways · as Art Direction |
| 1986 | Castle in the Sky · as Art Direction |
| 1984 | Sherlock Hound · as Art Direction |
| 1984 | Conan the Future Boy: The Big Giant Robot's Resurrection · as Art Director |
| 1981 | Chie the Brat · as Art Direction |
| 1979 | Conan, the Boy in Future · as Art Direction |
| 1978 | Future Boy Conan · as Art Direction |
| 1977 | Attack on Tomorrow! · as Art Director |