Person

Kitaro Kosaka

Visual Effects · Born 1962-02-28 · Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

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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  Spirited Away

  Animation Director

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  Howl's Moving Castle

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  Princess Mononoke

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  Akira

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  Master Keaton

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  Yawara!

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  Warriors of the Wind

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  The Boy and the Heron

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  Castle in the Sky

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  Sherlock Hound

  Animation Director

• 2023The Boy and the HeronKey Animation
• 2021BelleKey Animation
• 2018Okko's InnDirector
• 2017Letters from HibakushaDirector
• 2015The Boy and the BeastKey Animation
• 2014When Marnie Was ThereKey Animation
• 2013The Wind RisesCharacter Designer
• 2012Keigo Higashino Mysteries
• 2011From Up on Poppy HillAnimation Director
• 2010Mr. Dough and the Egg PrincessAnimation Director
• 2007Nasu: A Migratory Bird with SuitcaseWriter
• 2004Howl's Moving CastleAnimation Director
• 2003Nasu: Summer in AndalusiaDirector
• 2001Spirited AwayAnimation Director
• 2001MetropolisKey Animation
• 1999CloverDirector
• 1998Master KeatonCharacter Designer
• 1997Princess MononokeAnimation Director
• 1995Whisper of the HeartCharacter Designer
• 1994Pom PokoKey Animation
• 1993A-GirlDirector
• 1989Yawara!Key Animation
• 1988AkiraKey Animation
• 1988Grave of the FirefliesKey Animation
• 1987Royal Space Force - The Wings of HonneamiseKey Animation
• 1986Castle in the SkyKey Animation
• 1985Angel's EggKey Animation
• 1985Lupin the Third: The Legend of the Gold of BabylonKey Animation
• 1985The Dagger of KamuiKey Animation
• 1984Sherlock HoundAnimation Director
• 1984Warriors of the WindKey Animation
• 1982Gauche the CellistAnimation