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Kitaro Kosaka

b. 1962 · 20 titles in the catalogue

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.

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Their work

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  1. Spirited Away2001Animation Director
  2. Howl's Moving Castle2004Animation Director
  3. Princess Mononoke1997Animation Director
  4. Grave of the Fireflies1988Key Animation
  5. Akira1988Key Animation
  6. Castle in the Sky1986Key Animation
  7. Warriors of the Wind1984Key Animation
  8. The Wind Rises2013Animation Director · Character Designer
  9. The Boy and the Heron2023Key Animation
  10. Whisper of the Heart1995Animation Director · Character Designer
  11. When Marnie Was There2014Key Animation
  12. From Up on Poppy Hill2011Animation Director
  13. The Boy and the Beast2015Key Animation
  14. Pom Poko1994Key Animation
  15. Belle2021Key Animation
  16. Angel's Egg1985Key Animation
  17. Metropolis2001Key Animation
  18. Royal Space Force - The Wings of Honneamise1987Key Animation
  19. Okko's Inn2018Director
  20. Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess2010Animation Director