KITARO KOSAKA
VISUAL EFFECTS
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.
Akira 1988
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 1984
Pom Poko 1994
Angel's Egg 1985
The Dagger of Kamui 1985
Grave of the Fireflies 1988
Royal Space Force - The Wings Of Honneamise 1987
Belle 2021
Metropolis 2001
Lupin the Third: The Legend of the Gold of Babylon 1985
The Boy and the Heron 2023
When Marnie Was There 2014
The Boy and the Beast 2015
Castle in the Sky 1986
Yawara! 1989
Sherlock Hound 1984