Curated category
Japanese film directors
- Kenzō MasaokaKenzo Masaoka was a Japanese animator and voice actor who helped lay the technical foundations of anime as we know it. He was the first person in Japan to…
- Noburō ŌfujiNoburō Ōfuji left behind a legacy so enduring that one of Japan's most prestigious film prizes carries his name. The Mainichi Film Awards' Ōfuji Noburō…
- Mitsuyo SeoMitsuyo Seo died on the 24th of August 2010 at the age of 98, outliving nearly the entire world he had helped create. He was a Japanese animator…
- Yoko OnoYoko Ono walked into the Indica Gallery in London on the 7th of November 1966 carrying a ladder painted white. At the top of the ladder hung a magnifying…
- Akira KurosawaAkira Kurosawa directed 30 feature films across six decades, and yet the moment that first made the world notice him came about almost by accident.
- Hideaki AnnoHideaki Anno was born in Ube, Yamaguchi, the son of Fumiko and Takuya Anno, and the world of Japanese animation would eventually pivot on decisions he made…
- Katsuhiro OtomoKatsuhiro Otomo was born in Tome, Miyagi Prefecture, in a region so rural that, as a child, he said there was simply nothing to do. So he read manga.
- Yoshiyuki TominoYoshiyuki Tomino was born on the 5th of November 1941 in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, into a family shaped by civic power and industrial engineering.
- Osamu TezukaOsamu Tezuka spent his final hours in a Tokyo hospital bed, drawing. When a nurse tried to take his equipment away, his last words were: "I'm begging you…
- Kihachirō KawamotoKihachirō Kawamoto first walked into the art department of Toho film studio in 1946 as a young production design assistant in his early twenties.
- Isao TakahataIsao Takahata survived a United States air raid on Okayama City on the 29th of June, 1945. He was nine years old, separated from his parents for two days…
- Yukio MishimaOn the 25th of November 1970, Yukio Mishima stepped onto a balcony at a military base in central Tokyo and shouted to the soldiers below, "Where has the…