is an anime

Anime

is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

, producer

Film producer

A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

, and screenwriter

Screenwriter

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. After graduating from Tokyo Metropolitan North High School, he attended Hosei University

Hosei University

is a private university based in Tokyo, Japan.The university originated in a school of law, Tōkyō Hōgakusha , established in 1880, and the following year renamed Tōkyō Hōgakkō . This was from 1883 headed by Dr. Gustave Emile Boissonade, and was heavily influenced by the French legal tradition...

. His younger brother was the late anime director Osamu Dezaki

Osamu Dezaki

, also known as , , or , was a Japanese director of anime born on November 18, 1943, in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan. His older brother, Satoshi Dezaki, is also an anime director....

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Brief history

After graduating from high school, Dezaki took a position at Toshiba

Toshiba

is a multinational electronics and electrical equipment corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is a diversified manufacturer and marketer of electrical products, spanning information & communications equipment and systems, Internet-based solutions and services, electronic components and...

 while studying in the department of literature at Hosei University. While doing both of these, he continued to work on his dream job of working on movie production. He acted as the coach for the nine-member volleyball

Volleyball

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 team at Toshiba. Dezaki also began pulling together an anime production team.

Dezaki resigned after working for seven years at Toshiba, leaving Hosei University in the middle of a term as well. He began working for Gisaburō Sugii

Gisaburo Sugii

is an anime director and Nihonga artist. He is currently a member of the anime studio Group TAC, and is most well known for his work as director of the Touch series and the movie Night on the Galactic Railroad...

's company Art Fresh, working alongside his younger brother Osamu. His first works included writing the script for Attack No.1 and storyboard

Storyboard

Storyboards are graphic organizers in the form of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence....

ing Kyojin no Hoshi.

In 1969, Dezaki became a freelancer, doing scripting, production and direction work for Tokyo Movie Shinsha

Tokyo Movie Shinsha

, formerly known as , is a Japanese animation studio, founded on October 1946. One of the oldest and most prominent anime studios in Japan, it has also produced numerous animated series airing in other countries such as France, the United States, and Italy. The company currently uses "TMS...

, Tatsunoko Production

Tatsunoko Production

, often shortened to , is a Japanese animation company. Founded in October 1962 by acclaimed anime pioneer Tatsuo Yoshida along with his brothers Kenji and Toyoharu...

, and Sunrise

Sunrise (company)

is a Japanese animation studio and production enterprise. It is a subsidiary of Namco Bandai Holdings. Its former name was Nippon Sunrise, and prior to that, Sunrise Studios...

. In 1977, he founded Magic Bus

Magic Bus (studio)

is a Japanese animation studio headquartered in Nishi-Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. The company was founded in 1977 by producer and director Satoshi Dezaki in order to produce the anime TV series Shin Kyojin no Hoshi. In 1983, with Dezaki directing, Magic Bus collaborated in the animation production of...

 and produced and animated Shin Kyojin no Hoshi.

Works

• Aterui
  Aterui
  was the most prominent chief of the Isawa band of Emishi in northern Japan. The Emishi were an indigenous peoples of North Japan, who were considered hairy barbarians by their Japanese conquerors....
  
  
• Attack No. 1
  Attack No. 1
  is a Japanese manga series by Chikako Urano. It also became the first televised female sports anime series in the shōjo category.The anime is an adaptation of Chikako Urano's 1968 volleyball manga serialized in Weekly Maragaret Magazine under the same name. Chikako was considered one of the...
  
   (screenplay)
• Big Wars
  Big Wars
  is a 1993 Japanese anime film. Set in the dawning of the 21st century, the earth has undergone changes and technology improved in leaps and bounds, with mankind now colonizing Mars. However, unknown to mankind, there is an ancient race of aliens known as 'The Gods' which have been patiently...
  
   (producer)
• Captain
  Captain (manga)
  is a baseball manga series by Akio Chiba which ran in Monthly Shōnen Jump from 1972 to 1979. This series ran concurrently with another Chiba manga series Play Ball, which ran in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1973 to 1978...
  
  
• Carol: A Day in a Girl's Life (director)
• Daio Kishin no Natsu (director)
• Flag! (director)
• Gansu Tensai Bakabon (director)
• Grey: Digital Target (director, continuity)
• Kyojin no Hoshi (storyboards)
• La Seine no Hoshi
  La Seine no Hoshi
  is an anime series by Sunrise, which premiered in Japan on Fuji TV from April 4, 1975 and finished its run on December 26, 1975, spanning a total of 39 episodes...
  
   (assistant director, episode director and storyboards)
• Mad Bull 34
  Mad Bull 34
  is a manga series written by Kazuo Koike and illustrated by Noriyoshi Inoue, serialized in Shueisha's Young Jump between 1986 and 1990 and collected in 27 volumes...
  
   (director)
• Mahjong Hishō-den: Naki no Ryū
  Mahjong Hishō-den: Naki no Ryū
  is a mahjong centric Japanese manga by Junichi Nojo, which was also adapted into an OAV between 1988 and 1990.It was also adapted into four videos games, released between 1990 and 1995.-Video games:...
  
   (director)
• Mighty Orbots (storyboards)
• Play Ball
  Play Ball
  is a manga series by Akio Chiba which ran in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1973 to 1978, which was adapted in 2005 and 2006 into an anime series by Magic Bus, aired across Japan on the anime satellite television network, Animax...
  
   (chief director)
• Pro Yakyuū o 10 Oku Tanoshiku Miru Hōhō Part 2
• The Rose of Versailles
  The Rose of Versailles
  , also known as Lady Oscar or La Rose de Versailles, is one of the best-known titles in shōjo manga and a media franchise created by Riyoko Ikeda. It has been adapted into several Takarazuka Revue musicals, as well an anime television series, produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha and broadcast by the...
  
   (director (eps.6, 8))
• Shin Kyojin no Hoshi (producer, animator)
• Shirahata no Shōjo Ryūko
• Sword for Truth (producer)
• They Were 11 (director, storyboards)
• Tobira o Akete (screenplay)
• Urusei Yatsura Kanketsuhen (director)
• Urusei Yatsura: Inaba the Dreammaker (director)

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