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Kazuo Komatsubara
Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Kazuo Komatsubara (小松原 一男 or 小松原 一夫, Komatsubara Kazuo, December 24, 1943 – March 24, 2000) was a Japanese animator, animation director and character designer born in Yokohama, Ka…
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Kazuo Komatsubara (小松原 一男 or 小松原 一夫, Komatsubara Kazuo, December 24, 1943 – March 24, 2000) was a Japanese animator, animation director and character designer born in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. He worked as an independently contracted character designer for Toei Animation in the 1970s and 1980s. He was a member of the board of directors of animation studio Oh! Production (which he helped found along with Norio Shioyama, Kōichi Murata, and Kōshin Yonekawa). He died on March 24, 2000 due to a cancerous tumor on his neck.
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2001
Metropolis
Movie Key Animation
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1999
Devilman Memorial
Movie Character Designer
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1998
Case Closed: The Fourteenth Target
Movie Key Animation
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1997
A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation
Movie Animation Director
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1997
Detective Conan: The Time Bombed Skyscraper
Movie Key Animation
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1992
Little Twins
TV show Character Designer
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1992
Little Twins: How Our Summer Flew Past
Movie Animation Director
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1991
Go Nagai World
TV show Animation Director
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1988
Fair, then Partly Piggy
Movie Character Designer
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1987
Devilman - Volume 1: The Birth
Movie Key Animation
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1987
Have a Merry Christmas, Children!
Movie Director
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1986
Maple Town
TV show Animation Director
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1985
Arei's Mirror ~ Way to Virgin Space
Movie Animation Director
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1985
Wee Wendy
Movie Animation Director
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1985
Hai! Step Jun
TV show Character Designer
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1984
Warriors of the Wind
Movie Character Designer
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1983
Magnos
Movie Character Designer
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1982
Arcadia of My Youth: Endless Orbit SSX
TV show Animation Director
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1982
I Am a Cat
Movie Animation Director
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1981
J9 Series
TV show Character Designer
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1981
Adieu Galaxy Express 999
Movie Animation Director
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1981
Force Five : Grandizer
Movie Key Animation
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1980
Do Your Best Genki
TV show Animation Director
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1980
Galaxy Express 999: Claire of Glass
Movie Character Designer
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1979
Galaxy Express 999: The Movie
Movie Animation Director
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1978
Space Pirate Captain Harlock: Mystery Of The Arcadia
Movie Animation Director
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1977
Chojin Sentai Barattack
TV show Character Designer
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1976
Magnet Robot Gakeen
TV show Animation Director
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1975
Great Mazinger vs. Getter Robo G: The Great Space Encounter
Movie Animation Director
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1975
Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid
Movie Key Animation
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1972
Devilman
TV show Animation Director
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1971
Ryu the Primitive Boy
TV show Character Designer
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1969
Tiger Mask
TV show Animation Director
