A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Born:
August 31, 1940
Died:
October 25, 2016
Art Direction:
1970 This Transient Life
1978 Puppets Under Starry Skies
1980 The Way to The Gold Medals
1983 Lanterns on Blue Waters
1984 Farewell to the Ark
1984 Mitsugetsu
1986 Blue Lake Girl
1988 Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
1989 Tokyo: The Last War
1994 A Watcher in the Attic
1997 Moonlight Serenade
2004 Hazan
2005 Summer of Ubume
2007 Mushi-Shi: The Movie
2010 Hanjiro
2013 Tenshin
2017 Gintama
Creature Design:
1970 This Transient Life
1978 Puppets Under Starry Skies
1980 The Way to The Gold Medals
1983 Lanterns on Blue Waters
1984 Farewell to the Ark
1984 Mitsugetsu
1986 Blue Lake Girl
1988 Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
1989 Tokyo: The Last War
1990 Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars
1994 A Watcher in the Attic
1997 Moonlight Serenade
2004 Hazan
2005 Summer of Ubume
2007 Mushi-Shi: The Movie
2010 Hanjiro
2013 Tenshin
2017 Gintama
Director:
1970 This Transient Life
1978 Puppets Under Starry Skies
1980 The Way to The Gold Medals
1983 Lanterns on Blue Waters
1984 Farewell to the Ark
1984 Mitsugetsu
1986 Blue Lake Girl
1988 Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
1989 Tokyo: The Last War
1990 Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars
1992 Akio Jissoji's Museum of Wonders - Volume of Discourse
1992 Akio Jissoji's Museum of Wonders - Volume of the Unknown
1992 Akio Jissoji's Wonder Museum 1
1994 A Watcher in the Attic
1997 Moonlight Serenade
2004 Hazan
2005 Summer of Ubume
2007 Mushi-Shi: The Movie
2010 Hanjiro
2013 Tenshin
2017 Gintama
Production Design:
1970 This Transient Life
1971 Mandala
1977 Utamaro's World
1978 Puppets Under Starry Skies
1979 Akio Jissoji's Ultraman
1980 Before Spring
1980 The Way to The Gold Medals
1981 Kagero-za
1983 Lanterns on Blue Waters
1984 Farewell to the Ark
1984 Mitsugetsu
1985 Typhoon Club
1986 Blue Lake Girl
1988 Marquis de Sade’s Prosperities of Vice
1988 Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
1989 Tokyo: The Last War
1990 Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars
1991 Yumeji
1992 Akio Jissoji's Museum of Wonders - Volume of Discourse
1992 Akio Jissoji's Museum of Wonders - Volume of the Unknown
1992 Akio Jissoji's Wonder Museum 1
1994 A Watcher in the Attic
1995 Sharaku
1997 Moonlight Serenade
1998 Murder on D Street
2001 Infinity
2001 Misuzu
2004 Hazan
2005 Summer of Ubume
2007 Argentine Hag
2007 Mushi-Shi: The Movie
2010 Hanjiro
2010 Two Portraits of MIYAGINO
2013 Tenshin
2017 Gintama
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.