Kitaro Kosaka
Visual Effects
🎂 1962-02-28
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.
Cast credits(1)
Art (2)
Visual Effects (33)
Animation Director
1989
Key Animation
1989
Character Designer
1998
Animation Director
1998
Supervising Animation Director
1998
Animation Director
1984
Key Animation
1984
Animation Director
2001
Animation Director
2004
Key Animation
1984
Animation Director
1997
Key Animation
2023
Key Animation
1988
Key Animation
1986
Animation Director
1995
Character Designer
1995
Key Animation
2021
Key Animation
2014
Character Designer
2013
Animation Director
2013
Animation Director
2011
Key Animation
1994
Key Animation
2015
Key Animation
2001
Key Animation
1985
Key Animation
1987
Key Animation
1985
Key Animation
1985
Animation
1982
Animation Director
2010
Character Designer
1993
Animation Director
1993
Key Animation
1988
