Kitarō Kōsaka

is a Japanese animator and film director.

Profile

He began his career in 1979 with the studio Oh! Production.cite web|url=http://www.midnighteye.com/interviews/kitaro_kosaka.shtml|title=Midnight Eye interview: Kitaro Kosaka|publisher="Midnight Eye"|author=Tom Mes|date=2003-06-10|accessdate=2007-07-05] 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, "", 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.ja icon cite web|url=http://www.cyclingweb.jp/c_people/kosaka/vol01.html|title=CyclingWeb.jp：Cycling People Special Interview　高坂希太郎|author=Makoto Ayano|publisher=CyclingWeb.jp|date=2003-11-10|accessdate=2007-07-05] The film soon went on to become the first Japanese anime film ever to be selected for the Cannes Film Festival.cite web|url=http://d.hatena.ne.jp/keyword/%B9%E2%BA%E4%B4%F5%C2%C0%CF%BA|title=高坂希太郎とは - はてなダイアリー|accessdate=2007-06-07]

He has worked on numerous other projects for the studio Madhouse, including adaptations of noted mangaka 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.

Works

*1982 - "Minami no Niji no Lucy" (key animation)
*1982 - "Jarinko Chie" (key and in-between animation)
*1983 - "Mīmu Iro Iro Yume no Tabi" (key animation)
*1984 - "" (key animation)
*1984 - "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind" (key animation)
*1985 - "Kamui no Ken" (key animation)
*1985 - "Meitantei Holmes" (animation director)
*1985 - "" (key animation)
*1985 - "Angel's Egg" (key animation)
*1986 - "" (key animation)
*1987 - "" (key animation)
*1987 - "Twilight Q" (key animation)
*1988 - "Grave of the Fireflies" (key animation)
*1988 - "Akira" (key animation)
*1988 - "Kaze wo Nuke!" (key animation)
*1989 - "Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl" (storyboards, episode director, animation director, key animation)
*1993 - "A-Girl" (director, character design, animation director)
*1993 - "Double X" (key animation)
*1994 - "Pom Poko" (key animation)
*1995 - "Whisper of the Heart" (animation director)
*1997 - "Princess Mononoke" (supervising animation director)
*1998 - "Master Keaton" (character design, animation director, layout supervisor, storyboards, etc.)
*1999 - "Clover" (director)
*2001 - "Spirited Away" (supervising animation director)
*2001 - "Metropolis" (key animation)
*2003 - "" (director, screenplay, character design, animation director)
*2004 - "Monster" (original character designs)
*2005 - "Howl's Moving Castle" (supervising animation director)
*2007 - "Nasu 2" (director)
*2008 - "Ponyo on a Cliff" (supervising animation director)

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