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Kitaro Kosaka
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 lef…
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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.
Filmography
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2023
The Boy and the Heron
Movie Key Animation
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2021
Belle
Movie Key Animation
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2018
Okko's Inn
Movie Director
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2017
Letters from Hibakusha
Movie Director
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2015
The Boy and the Beast
Movie Key Animation
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2014
When Marnie Was There
Movie Key Animation
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2013
The Wind Rises
Movie Character Designer
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2012
Keigo Higashino Mysteries
TV show
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2011
From Up on Poppy Hill
Movie Animation Director
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2010
Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess
Movie Animation Director
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2007
Nasu: A Migratory Bird with Suitcase
Movie Director
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2004
Howl's Moving Castle
Movie Animation Director
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2003
Nasu: Summer in Andalusia
Movie Director
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2001
Spirited Away
Movie Animation Director
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2001
Metropolis
Movie Key Animation
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1999
Clover
Movie Director
More credits
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1998
Master Keaton
TV show Character Designer
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1997
Princess Mononoke
Movie Animation Director
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1995
Whisper of the Heart
Movie Character Designer
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1994
Pom Poko
Movie Key Animation
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1993
A-Girl
Movie Director
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1989
Yawara!
TV show Key Animation
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1988
Akira
Movie Key Animation
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1988
Grave of the Fireflies
Movie Key Animation
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1987
Royal Space Force - The Wings of Honneamise
Movie Key Animation
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1986
Castle in the Sky
Movie Key Animation
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1985
Angel's Egg
Movie Key Animation
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1985
Lupin the Third: The Legend of the Gold of Babylon
Movie Key Animation
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1985
The Dagger of Kamui
Movie Key Animation
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1984
Sherlock Hound
TV show Animation Director
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1984
Warriors of the Wind
Movie Key Animation
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1982
Gauche the Cellist
Movie Animation
