Kitaro Kosaka
VFX Artist · Director · WriterKitarō 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.
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FILMOGRAPHY
DIRECTOR6
VISUAL EFFECTS23
The Boy and the Heron
2023
Key Animation
Belle
2021
Key Animation
The Boy and the Beast
2015
Key Animation
When Marnie Was There
2014
Key Animation
The Wind Rises
2013
Character Designer, Animation Director
From Up on Poppy Hill
2011
Animation Director
Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess
2010
Animation Director
Howl's Moving Castle
2004
Animation Director
Spirited Away
2001
Animation Director
Metropolis
2001
Key Animation
Princess Mononoke
1997
Animation Director
Whisper of the Heart
1995
Character Designer, Animation Director
Pom Poko
1994
Key Animation
A-Girl
1993
Character Designer, Animation Director
Akira
1988
Key Animation
Grave of the Fireflies
1988
Key Animation
Royal Space Force - The Wings of Honneamise
1987
Key Animation
Castle in the Sky
1986
Key Animation
Angel's Egg
1985
Key Animation
The Dagger of Kamui
1985
Key Animation
Lupin the Third: The Legend of the Gold of Babylon
1985
Key Animation
Warriors of the Wind
1984
Key Animation
Gauche the Cellist
1982
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