Kitaro Kosaka
Personal Info
Know For
Visual Effects
Gender
Male
Birthday
1962-02-28 (63 years old)
Place of Birth
Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Also known As
Kitarô Kôsaka
Kitaro Kousaka
Kitarou Kosaka
Kitarō Kōsaka
Kousaka Kitarou
Kitaro Kosaka
Biography
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, hi...
Production
2001
as Animation Director
1995
as Character Designer
1995
as Animation Director
2013
as Character Designer
2013
as Animation Director
1997
as Animation Director
1988
as Key Animation
1984
as Key Animation
2003
as Writer
2007
as Writer
2003
as Director
2004
as Animation Director
2010
as Animation Director
2007
as Director
2011
as Animation Director
1994
as Key Animation
1985
as Key Animation
1985
as Key Animation
1988
as Key Animation
1987
as Key Animation
2021
as Key Animation
2001
as Key Animation
1999
as Director
1985
as Key Animation
1982
as Animation
1993
as Director
2018
as Director
2023
as Key Animation
2014
as Key Animation
2015
as Key Animation
1986
as Key Animation
1993
as Character Designer
1993
as Animation Director
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