A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Cindy H.Yamauchi
Cindy Hideko Yamauchi
Hideko Yamauchi
山内英子
Birthplace:
Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan
Born:
September 11, 1963
Cindy Hideko Yamauchi was born September 11th at a U.S. Air Base near Tokyo, Japan, where her father worked as a civilian. She showed an interest in drawing from an early age, so her parents enrolled her in several art classes when she was in grade school. Except for these classes, she is basically self-taught—she never attended a formal art school. She began her art career at the age of sixteen, working part-time as an in-between animator at Studio Musashi. After graduating from high school, she went to work for Kaname Productions, where she worked as an in-between animator for titles such as Plawres Sanshiro, Birth and Windaria. She moved up to key animation as a freelancer until being hired by Studio D.A.S.T., where she worked on titles like Bionic 6 and Battle Royal High School. Over time, her animation career gave her opportunities to work abroad in countries like Canada and Indonesia. She left the anime industry in her late 20s and moved back to Honolulu to explore other career options and further her education. When Square (now Square Enix) opened a studio there to make computer animated feature films, she took a job as a 3D animator on Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. After that, she moved to San Francisco, where she worked as a producer for Super Techno Arts on the English adaptation of the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure anime series. These days, she lives mostly in Japan, working for various studios as a chief animation director, key animator and character designer, and is the owner of REGION FREE Japan Artist Network.
Animation:
1984 Birth: A War of Two Worlds
1985 Leda - The Fantastic Adventure of Yohko
Animation Director:
1984 Birth: A War of Two Worlds
1985 Leda - The Fantastic Adventure of Yohko
2011 Trigun: Badlands Rumble
2013 Hakuouki: Wild Dance of Kyoto
2014 Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher
2017 Napping Princess
Character Designer:
1984 Birth: A War of Two Worlds
1985 Dream Dimension Hunter Fandora
1985 Leda - The Fantastic Adventure of Yohko
2011 Trigun: Badlands Rumble
2013 Hakuouki: Wild Dance of Kyoto
2014 Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher
2017 Napping Princess
Key Animation:
1984 Birth: A War of Two Worlds
1985 Dream Dimension Hunter Fandora
1985 Leda - The Fantastic Adventure of Yohko
1988 Akira
1988 Antique Heart
1989 Venus Wars
1990 MAROKO
2000 Escaflowne: The Movie
2004 Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow
2007 Highlander: The Search for Vengeance
2011 Legend of the Millennium Dragon
2011 Trigun: Badlands Rumble
2013 Hakuouki: Wild Dance of Kyoto
2014 Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher
2017 Napping Princess
Animation Director:
1990 Record of Lodoss War
2003 Gungrave
2004 Bleach
2006 Black Lagoon
2006 Tokyo Tribe 2
2012 Kids on the Slope
2014 Yona of the Dawn
2016 Divine Gate
2020 Akudama Drive
2022 Fuuto PI
2022 Tokyo 24th Ward
Character Designer:
1990 Record of Lodoss War
2003 Gungrave
2004 Bleach
2006 Black Lagoon
2006 Tokyo Tribe 2
2009 Beyond the Heavens
2011 Blade
2012 Kids on the Slope
2014 Yona of the Dawn
2016 Divine Gate
2020 Akudama Drive
2022 Fuuto PI
2022 Tokyo 24th Ward
Key Animation:
1987 Dirty Pair 2
1989 Gosenzo-sama Banbanzai!
1989 Magical Hat
1990 Record of Lodoss War
2003 Gungrave
2004 Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad
2004 Bleach
2004 Samurai Champloo
2005 Black Cat
2006 Black Lagoon
2006 Tokyo Tribe 2
2007 Kaiji
2008 Michiko & Hatchin
2009 Beyond the Heavens
2011 Blade
2012 Kids on the Slope
2013 Star Blazers [Space Battleship Yamato] 2199
2014 Yona of the Dawn
2016 Divine Gate
2020 Akudama Drive
2022 Fuuto PI
2022 Tokyo 24th Ward
Supervising Animation Director:
1987 Dirty Pair 2
1989 Gosenzo-sama Banbanzai!
1989 Magical Hat
1990 Record of Lodoss War
2003 Gungrave
2004 Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad
2004 Bleach
2004 Samurai Champloo
2005 Black Cat
2006 Black Lagoon
2006 Tokyo Tribe 2
2007 Kaiji
2008 Michiko & Hatchin
2009 Beyond the Heavens
2011 Blade
2012 Kids on the Slope
2013 Star Blazers [Space Battleship Yamato] 2199
2014 Yona of the Dawn
2016 Divine Gate
2020 Akudama Drive
2021 Platinum End
2022 Fuuto PI
2022 Tokyo 24th Ward
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.