Known for Visual Effects
Born
January 1, 1954
Died
August 24, 2010 (age 56)
Filmography
19 films, 9 shows


The River's Light
2009 · 1h 15m
country: Japan
A story of a rat family who have to leave their home because humans start a construction site. Now the rats are searching for a place to stay.


JAPAN, Our Homeland
2007 · 1h 37m
country: Japan
The 31st year of the Showa Era (1956) marked the tenth year since Japan's defeat in World War II. It was when Japan took its first step out of post-war poverty to rejoin the international community. In old downtown Tokyo, a teacher and her students try to pass down Doyo (Japanese traditional children's songs) as the root of Japanese cultural identity to the future generations.


KochiKame the Movie 2: UFO Attack! The Great Tornado Strategy!!
2003 · 1h 40m
country: Japan
The movie starts off with Ryotsu (with Honda as his patsy) hatching another crackpot scam with a fake UFO sighting (via fake crop circles and a wire-hanging UFO). But the plan fails per usual, with the Kameari Park Police Box which results in Ohara punishes Ryotsu by subtracting him from the station's group vacation to Hawaii the following day.


Spirited Away
2001 · 2h 5m
country: Japan
A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.


Prince Mackaroo the Movie: The Promised Summer - Ojaru and Semira
2000 · 47m
country: Japan
This short film introduces Semira, a strange boy who comes to play with Ojaru and his chums and bears a marked resemblance to a boy of the same name who spent a summer with the village elders when they were boys, long ago.


Lupin the Third: Greatest Capers
1995 · 50m
country: Japan
A compilation of two episodes from the second Lupin III television series that was released on video from Streamline Pictures.


The Three Musketeers: Adventure of Aramis
1989 · 55m
country: Japan
In this reimagining of Alexandre Dumas's classic novel, the musketeer Aramis is secretly a woman in disguise, drawn to the elite corps after exacting revenge on her lover's murderer. Years later, plucky musketeer-in-waiting D'Artagnan is to be hanged for a crime he didn't commit. To exonerate her friend, Aramis must uncover the truth by navigating a twisting web of court conspiracies and her own past — without revealing her secret.


Grave of the Fireflies
1988 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.


Lupin the Third: The Legend of the Gold of Babylon
1985 · 1h 40m
country: Japan
Lupin squares off with two criminal families and Inspector Zenigata's new female patrol to track down a hoard of biblical-era treasure.


Sherlock Hound: The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle / Treasure Under the Sea
1984 · 46m
country: Unknown
The famous blue ruby is stolen in such an elaborate way, that only one villain can be suspected - Professor Moriarty. It is up to Sherlock Holmes to return it and, in the process, to turn a young pick-pocket on the right path. In the second part, Moriarty sets his sights even higher, stealing a top-secret submarine from the Navy. What does he need it for? Holmes is once again on the trail.


Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer
1984 · 1h 35m
country: Japan
As the perpetually lecherous Ataru and his friends prepare for a carnival at Tomobiki High School, they gradually realize the days are literally repeating themselves. Any effort to break the pattern dumps them back where they started.


Urusei Yatsura: Only You
1983 · 1h 41m
country: Japan
Six-year-old Ataru steps on Elle's shadow during an impromptu game of shadow-tag; in Elle's culture, this is viewed as a marriage proposal. Eleven years later, Elle returns to Earth in order to marry Ataru — by which time not only had he forgotten the events of his childhood, but he was also going out with Lum. The rest of the plot focuses on Lum's attempts to prevent the marriage.


Chie the Brat
1981 · 1h 45m
country: Japan
Chie Takemoto is a dependable girl who struggles to help her troublesome father run a small tavern in Osaka. Unbeknown to her dad, she occasionally visits her mother who left him not too long ago. She plans on trying to reunite them, but not until her father gets a job.


The Castle of Cagliostro
1979 · 1h 42m
country: Japan
After a successful robbery leaves famed thief Lupin the Third and his partner Jigen with nothing but a large amount of expertly crafted counterfeit bills, he decides to track down the forgers responsible—and steal any other treasures he may find in the Castle of Cagliostro, including the 'damsel in distress' he finds imprisoned there.