Isao Takahata (高畑 勲, Takahata Isao^?, born October 29, 1935) is one of the most famous directors of anime, or Japanese animated films. Born in Ujiyamada (now Ise), Mie prefecture, Japan, he is a long-term colleague of Hayao Miyazaki and co-head at Studio Ghibli. His four animated films at Studio Ghibli have spanned a remarkable range of genres: war-film (Grave of the Fireflies), romantic drama (Only Yesterday), comedy (My Neighbors the Yamadas), and ecological adventure (Pom-Poko). Of these Grave of the Fireflies, in particular, is widely considered one of the greatest animated films ever made. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... October 25 is the 298th day of the year (299th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar). ... This article is about the city in Mie Prefecture. ... Mie Prefecture (三重県; Mie-ken) is part of the Kinki region on Honshu island, Japan. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... is the 302nd day of the year (303rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar). ... The main cast of the anime Cowboy Bebop (1998) (L to R: Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, Ed Tivrusky, Faye Valentine, and Ein the dog) For the oleo-resin, see Animé (oleo-resin). ... Animation refers to the process in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result. ... Film may refer to: photographic film a motion picture in academics, the study of motion pictures as an art form a thin skin or membrane, or any covering or coating, whether transparent or opaque a thin layer of liquid, either on a solid or liquid surface or free-standing Film... This article is about the city in Mie Prefecture. ... Mie Prefecture (三重県; Mie-ken) is part of the Kinki region on Honshu island, Japan. ... Hayao Miyazaki ) (Born January 5, 1941 in Tokyo, Japan) is a director of animated films and a co-founder of the animation studio and production company Studio Ghibli. ... Studio Ghibli, Inc. ... Only Yesterday , meaning Memories Like Falling Teardrops (more literally, Memories Like Falling Rain Drops) is sixth film by critically acclaimed director Isao Takahata (Grave of the Fireflies) and produced by Studio Ghibli. ... This article is about the film. ...

Graduating from the University of Tokyo French literature course in 1959, Takahata joined the newly-created Tōei Dōga animation company (Toei Animation) where a short time later he met Miyazaki, and also directed his first feature film Hols: Prince of the Sun. Ostracized within the company after the financial failure of the film (despite its artistic success), he and Miyazaki left in order to work together, and collaborated on many other films. Unlike most anime directors, Takahata doesn't draw and never worked as an animator before becoming a full fledged director. The University of Tokyo ), abbreviated as Todai ), is one of the leading research universities in Japan. ... Toei Animation Company, Limited ) (JASDAQ: 4816) is a Japanese animation studio owned by the Toei Company. ...

According to Hayao Miyazaki, "Music and study are his hobbies". Director Yasujiro Ozu and Kon Ichikawa are the same town with him. Yasujiro Ozu (小津 安二郎 Ozu Yasujirō) (December 12, 1903 - December 12, 1963) was an influential Japanese film director. ... Kon Ichikawa (市川 崑 Ichikawa Kon) (born November 20, 1915, Ujiyamada, Mie Prefecture) is one of the better known Japanese film directors. ...

Career

It was a coincidence at all that Isao Takahata joined Toei Animation. It was a start of his joining a company that he was tempted by the friend who knew Toei Animation wanted the assistant director at the time of job hunting at the university. He for fun took the company entrance examination because he had been originally interested in animation. Then, because the notification of the informal decision had come, he joined a company. The opportunity when he was interested in for an animated cartoon is to have watched French animated cartoon "Le Roi et l'Oiseau (The King and the Mockingbird)" based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. To see the movie, he was impressed, saying that "Can these kind of things be done by animation?". The reason why he had decided joining the company was that he thought "If it was animation, I can be something interesting, too". However, there were more than ten people joining the company in the same year, when he actually joined. It was two people that Toei Animation side recruited, but the surplus worker was sent by Toei headquarters. Therefore, he had a hard time very much by becoming the director. Le Roi et loiseau (The King and the Mockingbird) is a 1980 traditionally-animated feature film directed by Paul Grimault. ... Hans Christian Andersen or simply H.C. Andersen , (April 2, 1805 – August 4, 1875) was a Danish author and poet, most famous for his fairy tales. ... Toei can refer to: Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation Toei Animation This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Afterwards, Takahata was able to become a director for the first time by the favor of the recommendation of Yasuo Otsuka who was his and Hayao Miyazaki's instructor. The work was "Hols: Prince of the Sun". Yasuo Otsuka (大塚康生 Ōtsuka Yasuo, 1931 - ) was an animator who worked with Toei Animation. ...

"Hols" was a failure in a commercial sense. Some men received the demotion disposal by the responsibility of the failure, he was not able also to take a new movie while the remaining staff was producing the new work.

In 1971, to make the animation of "Pippi Longstocking", Takahata left the Toei Animation with Yoichi Kotabe who entered in the same period and Hayao Miyazaki who is fellow worker of Studio Ghibli, and transferred to “A production (present: SHIN-EI ANIMATION Co., Ltd.)” that Daikichiro Kusube(くすべ だいきちろう, 楠部大吉郎) who was a former superior established. And, they visited Sweden to acquire the right to make the animation, and for the location hunting of the work. However, they were turned away at the door by author Astrid Lindgren, and the plan was frustrated. But Hayao Miyazaki who was shocked from the town of the fortification city Visby seen at that time chose Stockholm and Visby as the stage of “Kiki's Delivery Service”. Cover for Astrid Lindgren original Do You Know Pippi Longstocking? Pippi Longstocking (Swedish Pippi LÃ¥ngstrump) is a fictional character in a series of childrens books created by author Astrid Lindgren. ... Yoichi Kotabe is a Japanese mangaka and animator that worked with Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki. ... Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren ( , née Ericsson, November 14, 1907 – January 28, 2002) was a Swedish childrens book author, whose many titles were translated into 85 languages and published in more than 100 countries. ... Visby is the largest city on the Swedish island of Gotland;it is arguably the best-preserved medieval town in Scandinavia, and has become a UNESCO World Heritage Site. ... Nickname: Location of Stockholm in northern Europe Coordinates: , Country Sweden Municipality Stockholm Municipality County Stockholm Province Södermanland and Uppland Charter 13th century Government  - Mayor Kristina Axén Olin (m) Population (March 2007)  - City 786,509  - Density 4,160/km² (10,774. ... Kikis Delivery Service (, Witchs Delivery Service) is a 1989 anime film, produced, written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki . ...

In 1971, it was requested to him to become the director of the Lupin III to which the former director did Fita with Hayao Miyazaki. Since the animation director was Yasuo Otsuka, an old acquaintance, they took the offer by conditional "the name of two people was not put out, and directed by the name of A production directors group". However, he did not participate in the sequel for the reasons why it was not a work that wanted to do though the evaluation to his direction was high. Serialized in Weekly Manga Action Original run 10 August 1967 – 27 April 1972 No. ...

Zuiyo Enterprise invited Isao Takahata, Yoichi Kotabe, and Hayao Miyazaki to make "Heidi" an animated cartoon in 1971, and 3 people took the offer. Then, "Heidi, Girl of the Alps" was made. Afterwards, when the production section of Zuiyo Enterprise was established as a subsidiary company of the animated cartoon production of Zuiyo Eizo(present: Nippon Animation), they both joined the company. On the picture side, animators draw carefully the nature of Europe and a change of season, and an everyday life of people by location hunting to Switzerland in all staff. On the other hand, on the story side, Takahata made the animation version easy to accept by thinning a Christianity element of the original besides the earnest Christian(especially, in the latter half). For the German supermodel, see Heidi Klum. ... Arupusu no Shoujo Haiji, or Heidi, Girl of the Alps was a very popular anime series made by the animation studio Zuiyo Eizo (which later became Nippon Animation) in 1974, directed by Isao Takahata and featuring scene design and layout by Hayao Miyazaki. ... Nippon Animation (日本アニメーション) is a Japanese animation studio. ...

In the case of "3000 Leagues in Search of Mother", the summary of the story followed the original, but he created many episodes and original characters because it was the story that totally did not reach 100 pages. 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother ) is an anime series directed by Isao Takahata and aired in 1976. ...

And, he expressed the protagonist Marco as a boy of the independent spirit that did not flatter the adult too much, and adults as existence that committed the crime even if they were comparison good men. He brought the world of this anime close to the reality or more by doing so. However, Kotabe and Miyazaki felt frustration for his direction that did not let them feel pleasure even if they drew it, and they left from Takahata one after another.

In "Anne of Green Gables", Takahata directed it along the original basically, but he was able to deepen an impression about Marilla and Ann by describing it as the para-parenthood which was heavier than the original. Akage no Anne (Anne with the Red Hair) ) is an animated television series, adapted from the Anne of Green Gables novels, produced by Nippon Animation in Japan in 1979. ...

In "Jarinko Chie, じゃりん子チエ （meaning of Chie the Brat)" in 1981, Yasuo Otsuka who belonged to Tokyo Movie Shinsha / Telecom Animation Film Co., Ltd. was offered to Hayao Miyazaki to make this comic an animated cartoon, but he was refused. Therefore, Otsuka consulted Takahata, but he also expressed disapproval first. However, Takahata who had really visited Osaka which was the stage of this story felt that the world drawn on the comic was actually there. And he took over the request, left the Nippon Animation which was on the register, and moved to Telecom. This work which paired again with Yasuo Otsuka and Yoichi Kotabe of the old acquaintance was praised with "The best work in the Japanese animation which we saw", "It is the wonderful work which we Disney could not reach" by Disney's senior, Frank Thomas, Oley Johnston. This work was settled for the TV animation series because it got a favorable reception, and Takahata became the chief director. TMS logo (circa 1987) Tokyo Movie Shinsha, also known as TMS Entertainment Ltd. ... Osaka )   is a city in Japan, located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay, in the Kansai region of the main island of HonshÅ«. The city is the capital of Osaka Prefecture. ... Disney may refer to: The Walt Disney Company and its divisions, including Walt Disney Pictures. ... Frank Thomas can refer to different people: Frank Thomas, the college football coach. ...

In 1982, Takahata was elected the director of "Little Nemo" that was the work that tried to be produced so that Telecom may advance to the United States. With Hayao Miyazaki and Yasuo Otsuka who entered Telecom earlier, Takahata went to America. But, the discord by the Japan-U.S. difference of the technique in the production of animation took place between the Japan side staff and the producer of the American side, Gary Kurtz (known as "Star Wars" producer). After all, Takahata would resign the director, had also left Telecom. And Miyazaki and others followed him, too. On the other hand, the cultural exchange was born between Japanese animator and seniors of Disney who had been cooperating in this project. Little Nemo is the main fictional character in a series of weekly comic strips by Winsor McCay (1871-1934) that appeared in the New York Herald and William Randolph Hearsts New York American newspapers from October 15, 1905—April 23, 1911 and April 30, 1911—1913; respectively. ... For other uses, see United States (disambiguation) and US (disambiguation). ... Gary Kurtz (born July 27, 1940 in Los Angeles, California) was the producer on Star Wars and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. ... Star Wars is an epic science fantasy saga and fictional universe created by George Lucas during the late 1970s. ...

Afterwards, Takahata was invited from Hayao Miyazaki and joined his animation production company Studio Ghibli after the producer in Hayao Miyazaki's "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind". Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ) is a 1984 film by Japanese writer, illustrator, and filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, based on his manga of the same name. ...

And the first movie that directed after Takahata participated in Ghibli was "Grave of the Fireflies". The evaluation in foreign countries was high in it partly because it was taken up by Roger Ebert. This article is about the film. ... Roger Joseph Ebert (born June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. ...

In “Kiki's Delivery Service”, Takahata did the music direction taking the place of Hayao Miyazaki who did not have musical attainments.

Influences and style

Takahata has been influenced by Italian neorealism, Jacques Prévert, and French New Wave films during the 1960s. The Bicycle Thief has been cited as specifically influencing 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother. These influences make Takahata's work different from most animation, which focus on fantasy. His films, by contrast, are realistic with expressionistic overtones. Italian neorealism is a film movement often considered to have started in 1943 with Ossessione and ended in 1952 with Umberto D. The movement is characterized by stories set amongst the poor and working class, filmed in long takes on location, frequently using nonprofessional actors for secondary and sometimes primary... Jacques Prévert was a French poet and screenwriter who was born on February 4, 1900 in Neuilly-sur-Seine and died on April 11, 1977 in Omonville-la-Petite. ... François Truffauts New Wave film Jules et Jim The New Wave (French: la Nouvelle Vague) was a blanket term coined by critics for a group of French filmmakers of the late 1950s and 1960s, influenced (in part) by Italian Neorealism. ... Ladri di biciclette (literally translated as Bicycle Thieves) is a 1948 Italian neorealist film known in its US English release as The Bicycle Thief. ... 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother ) is an anime series directed by Isao Takahata and aired in 1976. ... On White II by Wassily Kandinsky, 1923. ...

Neo-realism's influence on his film is evident in the amount of attention to detail he takes in displaying everyday mundane events. Entire episodes of his early TV shows were devoted to looking at events such as going to church every week, having a job cleaning out bottles, or detailing the work farmers do out in fields. All of these events are shown in meticulous detail and often form a major part of his work. With the exception of Horus: Prince of the Sun (a Disney-esque musical with darker and more political overtones), Pom Poko (an environmentalist film about magical tanuki trying to save their land), and Gauche the Cellist (a film about a struggling cellist who is helped by talking forest animals), the majority of his works are dramas set in mostly realistic environments. Pottery statue of tanuki Wild Tanuki Mt. ... Gauche the Cellist (Japanese:セロ弾きのゴーシュ, Sero Hiki no Goushu; also transliterated Gorsch the Cellist or Goshu the Cellist) is a story by the Japanese author Kenji Miyazawa. ...

One of Takahatas' most praised films is Omohide Poro Poro (literally, 'Memories Like Falling Raindrops'). The film was released in 1991 in Japan to critical acclaim, and was re-titled as Only Yesterday for release to English-speaking audiences. A film aimed squarely at an adult audience, Omohide Poro Poro revolves around Taeko, a single woman working a desk job in Tokyo, who takes her annual vacation in the countryside with the family of her sister in-law to work as a farmhand. During her holiday, Taeko finds herself looking back nostalgically at her youth as a schoolgirl growing up in 1966, while simultaneously attempting to resolve her current issues with love and career. Only Yesterday , meaning Memories Like Falling Teardrops (more literally, Memories Like Falling Rain Drops) is sixth film by critically acclaimed director Isao Takahata (Grave of the Fireflies) and produced by Studio Ghibli. ...

The expressionistic influences in Takahata's work are usually marked by scenes where a character's imagination comes to life on screen. For instance, in Omohide Poro Poro, after Taeko encounters her first love she, defying gravity, runs up into and floats through the red-colored sky. The scene ends with her slowly gliding into bed and then cuts to an outside shot of her house where a giant heart emerges from her window. These expressionistic sequences run counter to Takahata's realistic storyline and animation, but are consciously used by the director to transition back and forth from realism to the unreal world of animated fantasy, thereby further enhancing the character. These scenes can be found to some degree in all of Takahata's work, beginning with the "forest of delusion" sequence in Horus: Prince of the Sun.

Takahata's films have had a major influence on Hayao Miyazaki, prompting animator Yasuo Ōtsuka to say that Miyazaki gets his sense of social responsibility from Takahata and that without Takahata, Miyazaki would probably just be interested in comic book stuff.^[1] Hayao Miyazaki ) (Born January 5, 1941 in Tokyo, Japan) is a director of animated films and a co-founder of the animation studio and production company Studio Ghibli. ... Yasuo ÅŒtsuka ) is an animator who worked with Toei Animation and [[Studio Ghibli. ...

Works

TV

• 1963-65 狼少年ケン (okami-shonen Ken) / Ken, the wolf-boy
  • adviser, director of several episodes(episode 6,14,19,24,32,38,45,51,58,66,72,80)(only the 6th episode is "「山下勲」Isao Yamashita" name), storyboard
• 1965 ハッスルパンチ (Hassuru Panti) / Hustle Punch
  • director of opening theme
• 1969-70 ひみつのアッコちゃん(Himitsu no Akko-chan) / Secret Little Akko, based on comics for girls of Fujio Akatsuka (赤塚不二夫)
  • assistant director
• 1968-69 GeGeGe no Kitaro (the first series) / ゲゲゲの鬼太郎 (Gegege no Kitarō) / Lowest-of-the-Low Kitarou, Kitaro of GeGeGe, based on comics of Shigeru Mizuki (水木しげる)
  • storyboard / director （episode 62）
• 1969-70 もーれつア太郎 (Mōretsu Atarō) / A-tarou the Workaholic, based on comics of Fujio Akatsuka (赤塚不二夫)
  • storyboard / director (episode 10,14,36,44,51,59,71,77,90), director of opening theme (episode 70-90)
• 1971-72 GeGeGe no Kitaro (the second series) / ゲゲゲの鬼太郎 (Gegege no Kitarō)
  • storyboard / director (episode 5), director of opening and ending theme
• 1971-72 アパッチ野球軍 (Apatchi Yakyūgun) / Apache Baseball Team, based on the comics by original: "Kobako Hanato (花登筐)" / illustrating: "Sachio Umemoto (梅本さちお)"
  • storyboard / director (episode 2,12,17)
• 1971 長靴下のピッピ 世界一強い女の子 (Nagakutsushita no Pippi/sekai-ichi tsuyoi on-na-no-ko) / Pippi Longstocking, The strongest girl in world （temporary title）^[2]
  • chief director (a plan), however, since acquisition of the right to make anime went wrong, this project shifted to the movie “Panda! Go, Panda!”.
• 1971 Lupin III (ルパン三世, Rupan Sansei), based on comics of Monkey Punch (モンキー・パンチ)
  • correction of direction (Episode 4-12, there is an episode largely changed, and is an episode that was hardly changed) / director (episode 13-23, direct jointly with Hayao Miyazaki by "A production" name)
• 1972-73 赤胴鈴之助 (Akadō Suzunosuke) / Red-cuirass Suzu-no-suke, based on the comics by Eiichi Fukui (福井英一) and Thunayoshi Takeuchi (武内つなよし)
  • acting chief director
• 1973-74 荒野の少年イサム (Kouya no Shounen Isamu) / Isamu, Boy in the wilderness, based on the comics by original: "Soji Yamakawa (山川惣治)" / illustrating: "Noboru Kawasaki (川崎のぼる)"
  • storyboard (episode 15,18), director (episode 15)
• 1974 Heidi, Girl of the Alps / (アルプスの少女ハイジ, Arupusu no Shōjo Haiji), based on the novel of Johanna Spyri
  • chief director / storyboard (episode 1-3)
• 1975 A Dog of Flanders / (フランダースの犬, Furandaasu no Inu), based on the novel of Ouida
  • storyboard (episode 15)
• 1976 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother / (母をたずねて三千里, Haha wo Tazunete Sanzen-ri), based on one episode in the novel Cuore by Edmondo De Amicis
  • chief director, storyboard (episode 1,2,4,5,7)
• 1977 アルプスの音楽少女 ネッティのふしぎな物語, (Arupusu no Ongaku Shoujo Netti no Fushigi na Monogatari) / The Wonderful Story of Nettie, Musical Girl of the Alps
  • TV Special; storyboard and director, animated sequences only
• 1977 シートン動物記 くまの子ジャッキー, (Shiiton Doubutsuki Kuma no Ko Jakkii) / Seton Animal Chronicles: Jacky the Bear Cub, based on Ernest Thompson Seton’s works
  • storyboard (episode 5,8)
• 1978 ペリーヌ物語, Perrine Monogatari (Periinu Monogatari) / Perrine Story, based on the French novel, En Famille (meaning is “In Family”) by Hector Malot
  • storyboard (episode 3,6)
• 1978 Future Boy Conan (未来少年コナン, Mirai Shōnen Konan)
  • storyboard (episode 7,13,20) / storyboard and director (episode 9, 10 with Hayao Miyazaki)
• 1979 Anne of Green Gables, (赤毛のアン, Akage no An) / Anne of red hair
  • chief director, scriptwriter (episode 1-4,6,8,10,12,13,17,18,20,23,25-44,47-50/ 36 in total), storyboard (episode 1-4,29)
• 1981-83 じゃりん子チエ (Jarinko Chie) (Chie the Brat), based on comics of Etsumi Haruki はるき悦巳 (circulation is 30 million)
  • Chief director, storyboard and director (episode 2･6･11 stories,「武元哲」"Tetsu Takemoto" name 〔originates in the name of father of Chie〕), and original bill for composition of opening theme

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Movie

• 1961 The Littlest Warrior (安寿と厨子王丸, Anju to Zushiōmaru）/ Anju and Zushiōmaru, the original is "山椒大夫 Sansho Dayu" of Ougai Mori (森鴎外).
  • assistant director
• 1962 たのしい文明史 鉄ものがたり (Tanoshii Bunmeishi Tetsu Monogatari) / Interesting history of civilization, Story of Iron
  • assistant director, script supervisor
• 1962 The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon (わんぱく王子の大蛇退治, Wanpaku Ōji no Orochi Taiji) / Big snake extermination of the naughty royal prince
  • assistant director
• 1963 暗黒街最大の決闘 (Ankokugai Saidai no Kettō) / The Biggest Duel in the Underworld, Live action, not an anime, temporary transfer
  • assistant director, film director is Umetsugu Inoue (井上梅次)
• 1964/65 狼少年ケン (okami-shonen Ken) / Ken, the wolf-boy
  • Television series works （episode 14 and episode 72） were released the theater.
• 1968 Hols: Prince of the Sun (太陽の王子 ホルスの大冒険, Taiyō no Ōji - Horusu no Daibouken) / The great adventure of Hols: Prince of the Sun, based on "'Sun of CHIKISANI" of the puppet play of Kazuo Fukazawa who used Ainu's tradition as the motif.
  • chief director
• 1972 Panda! Go, Panda! (パンダ・コパンダ, Panda Kopanda) / Panda and child panda
  • chief director
• 1973 Panda! Go, Panda! Volume of Rainy Circus (パンダ・コパンダ 雨降りサーカスの巻, Panda Kopanda Amefuri-Saakasu no Maki)
  • chief director
• 1980 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother / (母をたずねて三千里, Haha wo Tazunete Sanzen-ri), edited the TV series again for a movie. original run: July 19, 1980
  • supervisor
• 1981 じゃりン子チエ (Jarinko Chie) / Chie the Brat
  • chief director / scriptwriter (with 城山昇, Noboru Shiroyama)
• 1982 Gauche the Cellist (セロ弾きのゴーシュ Sero-hiki no Gōshu), based on the children's story of Kenji Miyazawa (宮沢賢治)
  • chief director, scriptwriter
• 1983 Little Nemo / (NEMO/ニモ, Nimo)^[3], based on the weekly comics of Windsor Mckay in the United States
  • Japan side director （Fita on March 12, 1983）
• 1984 Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind (風の谷のナウシカ, Kaze no Tani no Naushika)^[4]
  • producer
• 1986 Castle in the Sky (天空の城ラピュタ, Tenkū no Shiro Rapyuta) / Laputa: Castle in the Sky
  • producer
• 1987 柳川堀割物語 (Yanagawa Horiwari Monogatari) / The Story of Yanagawa's Canals
  • chief director, scriptwriter, documentary film of culture
• 1988 Grave of the Fireflies (火垂るの墓, Hotaru no Haka), based on the novel of Akiyuki Nosaka (野坂昭如)
  • chief director, scriptwriter
• 1989 Kiki's Delivery Service (魔女の宅急便, Majo no Takkyuubin) / Witch's Delivery Service, based on the Children's literature of Eiko Kadono (角野栄子)
  • music direction
• 1990 赤毛のアン－グリーンゲイブルズへの道－ (Akage no An – Guriin Geiburuzu eno Michi -) / Anne of red hair, Road to Green Gables, edited the TV series again for a movie. original run: September, 1990
  • direction / editing
• 1991 Only Yesterday (おもひでぽろぽろ, Omohide Poro Poro) / Memory like rain (in drops)
  • chief director, scriptwriter, translated lyrics of the theme song
• 1994 Pom Poko (総天然色漫画映画 平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ, Sou- Tennensyoku-manga Heisei Tanuki Gassen Pon Poko) / Total natural colouring comics, Heisei era raccoon dog battle Pom Poko
  • original, chief director, scriptwriter
• 1999 My Neighbors the Yamadas (ホーホケキョ となりの山田くん, Hōhokekyo Tonari no Yamada-kun), based on the caricature of Hisaichi Ishii (いしいひさいち)
  • chief director, scriptwriter
• 2003 Winter Days (冬の日, Fuyu no Hi)
  • he participated in this movie with 35 animation creators in the world
• Recently
  • Untitled Isao Takahata Project, 2008 or 2009

Sansho the Bailiff (山椒大夫 Sanshō DayÅ«) is a 1954 (Daiei Studios) film by Japanese film director Kenji Mizoguchi. ... Mori Ogais statue at his birthhouse in Tsuwano Mori ÅŒgai ); (17 February 1862–8 July 1922) was a Japanese physician, translator, novelist and poet. ... The script supervisor is a position found on most major motion picture sets and is the individual who is primarily responsible for maintaining comprehensive and detailed notes of everything that has been filmed (or videotaped) during the shooting process. ... Wanpaku Ôji no Orochi Taiji (わんぱく王子の大蛇退治 - literally The Naughty Prince Slays the Giant Serpent) is an anime film produced by Toei Animation, released in Japan on March 24, 1963. ... Umetsugu Inoue(井上梅次, いのうえうめつぐ, born in May 31, 1923 - ) is a Japanese film director, a scriptwriter. ... For Ainu in J.R.R. Tolkiens fictional universe of Arda, see Ainur. ... Panda! Go Panda! is a 1972 Japanese anime written by Hayao Miyazaki and directed by Isao Takahata, predating Studio Ghibli. ... Panda! Go Panda! is a 1972 Japanese anime written by Hayao Miyazaki and directed by Isao Takahata, predating Studio Ghibli. ... 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother ) is an anime series directed by Isao Takahata and aired in 1976. ... Gauche the Cellist (Japanese:セロ弾きのゴーシュ, Sero Hiki no Goushu; also transliterated Gorsch the Cellist or Goshu the Cellist) is a story by the Japanese author Kenji Miyazawa. ... Miyazawa Kenji (宮沢 賢治 Miyazawa Kenji, August 27, 1896 - September 21, 1933) was a poet and author of childrens literature. ... Little Nemo is the main fictional character in a series of weekly comic strips by Winsor McCay (1871-1934) that appeared in the New York Herald and William Randolph Hearsts New York American newspapers from October 15, 1905—April 23, 1911 and April 30, 1911—1913; respectively. ... Nausicaä flying her Mehve over the Valley of Wind Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (風の谷のナウシカ Kaze no tani no Naushika) is a graphic novel (manga) and 1984 film by Japanese writer, illustrator, and filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki. ... Laputa: Castle in the Sky ) (re-titled Castle in the Sky for release in the United States) is a film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, released in 1986. ... This article is about the film. ... History Akiyuki Nosaka was born on 10 October 1930 in Kanagawa. ... Kikis Delivery Service (, Witchs Delivery Service) is a 1989 anime film, produced, written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki . ... Jane Frank: illustration from Thomas Yoseloffs The Further Adventures of Till Eulenspiegel (1957). ... Eiko Kadono (角野栄子 Kadono Eiko) is the author of the picture book Majo no TakkyÅ«bin, known also as Kikis Delivery Service, the title of its anime adaptation. ... Only Yesterday , meaning Memories Like Falling Teardrops (more literally, Memories Like Falling Rain Drops) is sixth film by critically acclaimed director Isao Takahata (Grave of the Fireflies) and produced by Studio Ghibli. ... Pom Poko (平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ; Heisei Tanuki Gassen Ponpoko, Heisei-era Raccoon Dog War Pom Poko) (1994) is an anime (Japanese animation) film written and directed by Takahata Isao at Studio Ghibli. ... My Neighbors the Yamadas was directed by Isao Takahata and was released by Studio Ghibli in 1999. ... For the book of comics by Daniel Clowes see Caricature (Daniel Clowes collection) A caricature of film comedian Charlie Chaplin. ... Winter Days (Japanese: 冬の日, Fuyu no hi) is a 2003 animated film, directed by Kihachiro Kawamoto. ...

Translator & Director of Japanese dubs/subtitles for Ghibli Museum Library Films

• Kirikou et la Sorciere (キリクと魔女 Kiriku to Majo)
• Les Triplettes de Belleville (ベルヴィル・ランデブー Beruviru Randebu)
• Princes et Princesses (プリンス＆プリンセス Purinsu & Purinsesu)
• Le Roi et L'oiseau (王と鳥 Ou to Tori)
• Moya Iyubov (春のめざめ Haru no Mezame)
• Azur et Asmar (Asuru to Asumaru)

Kirikou et la sorcière (Kirikou and the Sorceress in English) (1998 is a French animated film based on an African folk tale where a newborn boy saves his village by ridding the world of the evil Karaba the Sorceress. ... Les Triplettes de Belleville is an award-winning 2003 animated feature film written and directed by Sylvain Chomet. ... Princes et princesses (2000) is a silhouette animation by Michel Ocelot, his second feature-length film. ... Le Roi et loiseau (The King and the Mockingbird) is a 1980 traditionally-animated feature film directed by Paul Grimault. ... My Love (Russian: , Moya lyubov) is a 2006 paint-on-glass-animated short film directed by Aleksandr Petrov, based on A Love Story (1927) by Ivan Shmelyov. ... Azur et Asmar (2006) is the fourth animated feature film by director Michel Ocelot, most famous for Kirikou and the Sorceress. ...

References

External links

• Takahata information at nausicaa.net
• GhibliWorld.com: The Ultimate Ghibli Collection Site (English Ghibli source with news updates straight from Japan and info about Studio Ghibli goods)