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Kitaro Kosaka
Director, Writer, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn February 28, 1962 (63 years)
Kitarō Kōsaka (高坂 希太郎, born February 28, 1962 in Kanagawa Prefecture) is a Japanese animator and film director.
He began his career in 1979 with the studio Oh! Production. He left the studio in 1986 to become a freelance, and soon went on to work on numerous projects as a key and supervising animation director for the noted animation studio Studio Ghibli, and with the famed director Hayao Miyazaki, of whose work he is himself an acknowledged fan.
In 2003, he directed the cycling anime film, Nasu: Summer in Andalusia, set on the Vuelta a España road bicycle race, adapted from Iō Kuroda's manga Nasu, which Hayao Miyazaki, a fan of cycling, himself recommended to Kōsaka. The film soon went on to become the first Japanese anime film ever to be selected for the Cannes Film Festival.
He has worked on numerous other projects for the studio Madhouse, including adaptations of manga artist Naoki Urasawa's works with the studio, including Yawara, Master Keaton and Monster, and adaptations of two of Clamp's works, including Clover and Double X, both of them being short films.
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He began his career in 1979 with the studio Oh! Production. He left the studio in 1986 to become a freelance, and soon went on to work on numerous projects as a key and supervising animation director for the noted animation studio Studio Ghibli, and with the famed director Hayao Miyazaki, of whose work he is himself an acknowledged fan.
In 2003, he directed the cycling anime film, Nasu: Summer in Andalusia, set on the Vuelta a España road bicycle race, adapted from Iō Kuroda's manga Nasu, which Hayao Miyazaki, a fan of cycling, himself recommended to Kōsaka. The film soon went on to become the first Japanese anime film ever to be selected for the Cannes Film Festival.
He has worked on numerous other projects for the studio Madhouse, including adaptations of manga artist Naoki Urasawa's works with the studio, including Yawara, Master Keaton and Monster, and adaptations of two of Clamp's works, including Clover and Double X, both of them being short films.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Kitarō Kōsaka, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Kitaro Kosaka Filmography
| 2018 | |
| 2007 | |
| 2003 | |
| 1998 | Master Keaton (TV Series) |
| 2007 | |
| 2003 | Nasu: Summer in Andalusia · as Screenplay |
| 2012 | Keigo Higashino Mysteries (TV Series) |
| 2023 | The Boy and the Heron · as Key Animation |
| 2021 | Belle · as Key Animation |
| 2015 | The Boy and the Beast · as Key Animation |
| 2014 | When Marnie Was There · as Key Animation |
| 2013 | The Wind Rises · as Character Designer |
| 2011 | From Up on Poppy Hill · as Animation Director |
| 2010 | Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess · as Animation Director |
| 2004 | Howl's Moving Castle · as Animation Director |
| 2001 | Spirited Away · as Animation Director |
| 2001 | Metropolis · as Key Animation |
| 1998 | Master Keaton (TV Series) · as Animation Director |
| 1997 | Princess Mononoke · as Animation Director |
| 1995 | Whisper of the Heart · as Character Designer |
| 1994 | Pom Poko · as Key Animation |
| 1989 | Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl (TV Series) · as Animation Director |
| 1988 | Akira · as Key Animation |
| 1988 | Grave of the Fireflies · as Key Animation |
| 1987 | Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise · as Key Animation |
| 1986 | Castle in the Sky · as Key Animation |
| 1985 | Angel's Egg · as Key Animation |
| 1985 | Lupin III: Legend of the Gold of Babylon · as Key Animation |
| 1985 | The Dagger of Kamui · as Key Animation |
| 1984 | Sherlock Hound (TV Series) · as Animation Director |
| 1984 | Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · as Key Animation |
| 1982 | Gauche the Cellist · as Animation |