Takashi Nakamura
Encyclopedia
, is an accomplished Japanese animator
and anime director. It was his work on Ōgon Senshi Gold Lightan that helped inspire fellow animator Koji Morimoto
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His 2001 film A Tree of Palme
was an official selection of the Berlin Film Festival.
He is a founding member of the Japan Animation Creators Association (JAniCA) labor group.
Animator
An animator is an artist who creates multiple images that give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence; the images are called frames and key frames. Animators can work in a variety of fields including film, television, video games, and the internet. Usually, an...
and anime director. It was his work on Ōgon Senshi Gold Lightan that helped inspire fellow animator Koji Morimoto
Koji Morimoto
, born December 26, 1959) is an animator and one of Japan’s premier anime directors.- Biography :Born in Wakayama, Japan, he graduated from the Osaka School of Design in 1979 and a couple years later joined the studio Annapuru as an animator for the TV series “Tomorrow's Joe”...
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His 2001 film A Tree of Palme
A Tree of Palme
is a 2002 Japanese anime film, written and directed by Takashi Nakamura. It was an official selection of the 2002 Berlin Film Festival.-Story:A Tree of Palme is an interpretation of the Pinocchio tale. It concerns a small puppet, Palme, who was tasked by his creator to look over his ailing wife, Xian...
was an official selection of the Berlin Film Festival.
He is a founding member of the Japan Animation Creators Association (JAniCA) labor group.
Works
- YattermanYattermanis a Japanese anime television series broadcast from January 1, 1977 to January 27, 1979, comprising 108 episodes. It is the second and longest show in the Time Bokan series by Tatsunoko Productions...
(1977) - animation director and key animation - Ōgon Senshi Gold Lightan (1981) - animation director and key animation
- Genma Taisen (1983) - key animation
- Mirai Keisatsu Urashiman (1983) - character designs, animation director, key animation, storyboards
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) - key animation
- Meikyū Monogatari (1987) - animation director
- Robot CarnivalRobot Carnivalis a Japanese anime anthology film released in 1987. It consists of nine shorts by different directors, many of whom started out as animators with little to no directing experience...
(1987) - director, script, character designs, animation - AKIRAAkira (film)is a 1988 Japanese animated cyberpunk science fiction film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, written by Otomo and Izo Hashimoto, and starring the voices of Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama and Taro Ishida. The screenplay is based on Otomo's manga Akira....
(1988) - animation director - Peter Pan no BōkenPeter Pan no Bokenis an anime series by Nippon Animation, and directed by Takashi Nakamura and Yoshio Kuroda, which first aired in Japan on the Fuji TV network between January 8, 1989 and December 24, 1989...
(1989) - character designs, scene artist, storyboards - Catnapped!Catnapped!known outside Japan as Catnapped!, is a 1995 Japanese animated feature film, directed, created and written by Takashi Nakamura, who was also its character designer. The animation was produced by Triangle Staff...
(1995) - director, original creator, script, character design, animation director - A Tree of PalmeA Tree of Palmeis a 2002 Japanese anime film, written and directed by Takashi Nakamura. It was an official selection of the 2002 Berlin Film Festival.-Story:A Tree of Palme is an interpretation of the Pinocchio tale. It concerns a small puppet, Palme, who was tasked by his creator to look over his ailing wife, Xian...
(2001) - director, original creator, script - Tetsujin 28-goTetsujin 28-gois a 1956 manga written and illustrated by Mitsuteru Yokoyama, who also created Giant Robo. The series centred on the adventures of a young boy named Shotaro Kaneda, who controlled a giant robot named Tetsujin 28, built by his late father....
(2004) - character designs and storyboards - Fantastic ChildrenFantastic Childrenis a Japanese animated television series created by Takashi Nakamura and produced by Nippon Animation. It first aired on Japan across TV Tokyo between October 4, 2004 and March 28, 2005, totaling 26 episodes, and also received its satellite television premiere on the CS television network...
(2004) - director, original creator, script, character designs