Tensai Okamura

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Tensai Okamura

Directing 64 December 13, 1961

Fukushima, Japan

Tensai Okamura (岡村 天斎, Okamura Tensai, December 13, 1961) is a Japanese anime director and animator born in Fukushima Prefecture and raised in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture.…

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My Neighbor Totoro

My Neighbor Totoro

8.1 1988 Movie
My Hero Academia

My Hero Academia

8.6 2016 TV Show
The Seven Deadly Sins

The Seven Deadly Sins

8.4 2014 TV Show
Ghost in the Shell

Ghost in the Shell

7.9 1995 Movie
Neon Genesis Evangelion

Neon Genesis Evangelion

8.6 1995 TV Show
Cowboy Bebop

Cowboy Bebop

8.5 1998 TV Show
DARLING in the FRANXX

DARLING in the FRANXX

8.5 2018 TV Show
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion

Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion

8.3 1997 Movie
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

7.7 2001 Movie
Samurai Champloo

Samurai Champloo

8.3 2004 TV Show
Blue Exorcist

Blue Exorcist

7.8 2011 TV Show
Ninja Scroll

Ninja Scroll

7.8 1993 Movie

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Tensai Okamura (岡村 天斎, Okamura Tensai, December 13, 1961) is a Japanese anime director and animator born in Fukushima Prefecture and raised in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture. His real name is Yutaka Okamura (岡村 豊, Okamura Yutaka). He graduated from Waseda University department of science and engineering. In 1991, he began using the name Tensai Okamura.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2026
    That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea

    Movie Storyboard Artist

  2. 2025
    Alice in Wonderland –Dive in Wonderland–

    Movie Storyboard Artist

  3. 2025
    Lazarus

    TV show Storyboard Artist

  4. 2024
    My Hero Academia: You're Next

    Movie Director

  5. 2024
    T・P BON

    TV show Storyboard Artist

  6. 2023
    Buddy Daddies

    TV show Storyboard Artist

  7. 2022
    That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond

    Movie Storyboard Artist

  8. 2021
    Blade Runner: Black Lotus

    TV show Storyboard Artist

  9. 2021
    The aquatope on white sand

    TV show Storyboard Artist

  10. 2021
    The Case Study of Vanitas

    TV show Storyboard Artist

  11. 2021
    Scarlet Nexus

    TV show Storyboard Artist

  12. 2020
    SHIROBAKO the Movie

    Movie Key Animation

  13. 2018
    IRODUKU: The World in Colors

    TV show Storyboard Artist

  14. 2018
    DARLING in the FRANXX

    TV show Storyboard Artist

  15. 2016
    Kuromukuro

    TV show Series Director

  16. 2016
    My Hero Academia

    TV show Storyboard Artist

More credits
  1. 2014
    The Seven Deadly Sins

    TV show Series Director

  2. 2014
    World Conquest Zvezda Plot

    TV show Series Director

  3. 2013
    Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea

    TV show Storyboard Artist

  4. 2013
    The Eccentric Family

    TV show Storyboard Artist

  5. 2012
    Tari Tari

    TV show Storyboard Artist

  6. 2011
    Guilty Crown

    TV show Storyboard Artist

  7. 2011
    Blue Exorcist

    TV show Series Director

  8. 2009
    Canaan

    TV show Storyboard Artist

  9. 2008
    Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens

    TV show Storyboard Artist

  10. 2008
    Real Drive

    TV show Storyboard Artist

  11. 2008
    Soul Eater

    TV show Director

  12. 2007
    Darker than Black

    TV show Director

  13. 2006
    Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple

    TV show Key Animation

  14. 2006
    Project Blue Earth SOS

    TV show Director

  15. 2005
    Naruto the Movie: Legend of the Stone of Gelel

    Movie Key Animation

  16. 2005
    Emma: A Victorian Romance

    TV show Storyboard Artist

  17. 2004
    Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow

    Movie Director

  18. 2004
    Kurau Phantom Memory

    TV show Key Animation

  19. 2004
    Samurai Champloo

    TV show Storyboard Artist

  20. 2004
    Memories of Memories

    Movie Self

  21. 2003
    RahXephon: Pluralitas Concentio

    Movie Storyboard Artist

  22. 2003
    Astro Boy

    TV show Key Animation

  23. 2003
    Wolf's Rain

    TV show Series Director

  24. 2002
    Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

    TV show Storyboard Artist