Known for Directing
Hiroyuki Yamaga (山賀 博之, Yamaga Hiroyuki) is a Japanese anime director and producer, and a founding member of the animation studio Gainax. He is best known for directing the film Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise (1987) at age 24, directing Mahoromatic (2001), Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi (2002), and an episode of Gurren Lagann (2007). Yamaga also wrote the screenplay for Gundam 0080 (1989). He is portrayed by actor Tsuyoshi Muro in the 2014 TV Drama Aoi Honō based on the autobiographical manga by his fellow Osaka University of Arts alumnus Kazuhiko Shimamoto. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hiroyuki Yamaga, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born
March 23, 1962 (age 64)
Birthplace
Niigata, Japan
Filmography
20 films, 21 shows


Suna no Akari
2017 · 3m · JP
The short's story centers on a boy who finds something shining in a gloomy desert. It gives him a power of light. Guided by the light, the boy is drawn into the connection between the girl he meets and a new world.


Royal Space Force - The Wings of Honneamise
1987 · 2h 1m · JP
On a future Earth, war between the Kingdom of Honneamise and its rival, The Republic, is inevitable. As evolving technology creates new ways to wage war, a small group seeks to propel mankind into space in their world’s first spaceflight program. For astronaut candidate Shirotsugh Lhadatt, it’s a personal odyssey as he grows from an aimless young man into a leader willing to put everything on the line in order to move the human race forward and away from the brink of Armageddon.


Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise Pilot
1985 · 4m · JP
Short pilot film from year 1985 for the Royal Space Force movie that came out two years later.