KitarÅ KÅ saka (é«˜å ‚ 希太郎, KÅ saka KitarÅ , 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
IÅ Kuroda's manga Nasu, which Hayao Miyazaki, a fan of cycling,
himself recommended to KÅ saka. 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.
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
IÅ Kuroda's manga Nasu, which Hayao Miyazaki, a fan of cycling,
himself recommended to KÅ saka. 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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