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Masahiro Sakurai
Musashimurayama, Tokyo, Japan
Masahiro Sakurai is a Japanese video game director and game designer best known as the creator of the Kirby and Super Smash Bros. series. Apart from his work on those series, he a…
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Masahiro Sakurai is a Japanese video game director and game designer best known as the creator of the Kirby and Super Smash Bros. series. Apart from his work on those series, he also led the design of Meteos in 2005 and directed Kid Icarus: Uprising in 2012. Formerly an employee of HAL Laboratory, he founded Sora Ltd. in 2005, a company he still leads. He is also an author of a weekly column for Famitsu magazine, and has done voice acting work in some of his games.
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2022
Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games
TV show Masahiro Sakurai
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2017
Kirby 25th Anniversary Orchestra Concert
Movie Himself
- 2016
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2012
Kid Icarus
TV show Executive Producer
- 2009
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2005
Kirby: Fright to the Finish!
Movie Characters
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2001
Kirby: Right Back at Ya!
TV show Characters
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2000
Kirby of the Stars Pilot
Movie Writer
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1993
Mario Kirby Masterpiece Video
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