Kitaro Kosaka

Kitaro Kosaka

Visual Effects
Born 1962-02-28 Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan 32 credits
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kitarō Kōsaka, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
Acting 26 credits
Spirited Away
Spirited Away
2001 · ★ 8.5 · Animation Director
Howl's Moving Castle
Howl's Moving Castle
2004 · ★ 8.4 · Animation Director
Princess Mononoke
Princess Mononoke
1997 · ★ 8.3 · Animation Director
Yawara!
Yawara!
1989 · Key Animation, Animation Director
The Boy and the Heron
The Boy and the Heron
2023 · ★ 7.4 · Key Animation
Akira
Akira
1988 · ★ 7.9 · Key Animation
Warriors of the Wind
Warriors of the Wind
1984 · ★ 7.9 · Key Animation
Castle in the Sky
Castle in the Sky
1986 · ★ 8.0 · Key Animation
Master Keaton
Master Keaton
1998 · Character Designer, Storyboard Artist
The Wind Rises
The Wind Rises
2013 · ★ 7.8 · Character Designer, Animation Director
Whisper of the Heart
Whisper of the Heart
1995 · ★ 7.9 · Character Designer, Animation Director
When Marnie Was There
When Marnie Was There
2014 · ★ 7.9 · Key Animation
Sherlock Hound
Sherlock Hound
1984 · ★ 7.1 · Animation Director, Key Animation
Belle
Belle
2021 · ★ 7.6 · Key Animation
From Up on Poppy Hill
From Up on Poppy Hill
2011 · ★ 7.5 · Animation Director
Pom Poko
Pom Poko
1994 · ★ 7.2 · Key Animation
Angel's Egg
Angel's Egg
1985 · ★ 7.7 · Key Animation
The Boy and the Beast
The Boy and the Beast
2015 · ★ 7.9 · Key Animation
Metropolis
Metropolis
2001 · ★ 7.2 · Key Animation
Royal Space Force - The Wings of Honneamise
Royal Space Force - The Wings of Honneamise
1987 · ★ 6.9 · Key Animation
Lupin the Third: The Legend of the Gold of Babylon
Lupin the Third: The Legend of the Gold of Babylon
1985 · ★ 6.1 · Key Animation
Gauche the Cellist
Gauche the Cellist
1982 · ★ 7.2 · Animation
The Dagger of Kamui
The Dagger of Kamui
1985 · Key Animation
Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess
Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess
2010 · Animation Director
A-Girl
A-Girl
1993 · Director, Character Designer
Grave of the Fireflies
Grave of the Fireflies
1988 · ★ 8.4 · Key Animation
Directing 6 credits
Okko's Inn
Okko's Inn
2018 · ★ 7.2 · Director
Nasu: Summer in Andalusia
Nasu: Summer in Andalusia
2003 · Director, Screenplay
Clover
Clover
1999 · Director
Nasu: A Migratory Bird with Suitcase
Nasu: A Migratory Bird with Suitcase
2007 · Director, Writer
A-Girl
A-Girl
1993 · Director, Character Designer
Letters from Hibakusha
Letters from Hibakusha
2017 · Director
Writing 2 credits
Nasu: Summer in Andalusia
Nasu: Summer in Andalusia
2003 · Director, Screenplay
Nasu: A Migratory Bird with Suitcase
Nasu: A Migratory Bird with Suitcase
2007 · Director, Writer
Other credits 1 credit
Keigo Higashino Mysteries
Keigo Higashino Mysteries
2012
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