- Known For
- Visual Effects
- Born
- February 28, 1962
- Place of Birth
- Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Kitaro Kosaka
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 Naok…
Filmography
movieThe Boy and the Heron
2023 · Key Animation
movieBelle
2021 · Key Animation
movieOkko's Inn
2018 · Director
movieLetters from Hibakusha
2017 · Director
movieThe Boy and the Beast
2015 · Key Animation
movieWhen Marnie Was There
2014 · Key Animation
movieThe Wind Rises
2013 · Character Designer, Animation Director
tvKeigo Higashino Mysteries
2012
movieFrom Up on Poppy Hill
2011 · Animation Director
movieMr. Dough and the Egg Princess
2010 · Animation Director
movieNasu: A Migratory Bird with Suitcase
2007 · Writer, Director
movieHowl's Moving Castle
2004 · Animation Director
movieNasu: Summer in Andalusia
2003 · Director, Screenplay
movieSpirited Away
2001 · Animation Director
movieMetropolis
2001 · Key Animation
movieClover
1999 · Director
tvMaster Keaton
1998 · Character Designer, Storyboard Artist, Director, Animation Director, Supervising Animation Director
moviePrincess Mononoke
1997 · Animation Director
movieWhisper of the Heart
1995 · Character Designer, Animation Director
moviePom Poko
1994 · Key Animation
movieA-Girl
1993 · Director, Character Designer, Animation Director
tvYawara!
1989 · Key Animation, Animation Director, Storyboard Artist
movieAkira
1988 · Key Animation
movieGrave of the Fireflies
1988 · Key Animation
movieRoyal Space Force - The Wings of Honneamise
1987 · Key Animation
movieCastle in the Sky
1986 · Key Animation
movieAngel's Egg
1985 · Key Animation
movieLupin the Third: The Legend of the Gold of Babylon
1985 · Key Animation
movieThe Dagger of Kamui
1985 · Key Animation
tvSherlock Hound
1984 · Animation Director, Key Animation
movieWarriors of the Wind
1984 · Key Animation
movieGauche the Cellist
1982 · Animation