A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Nagano Prefecture, Japan
Born:
December 19, 1965
Animation:
1986 Fist of the North Star
Animation Director:
1986 Fist of the North Star
1998 Satanika
2009 Final Fantasy VII: On the Way to a Smile - Episode Denzel
2010 Armored Trooper VOTOMS: Finder
2022 One Piece Film Red
Character Designer:
1986 Fist of the North Star
1998 Satanika
2000 Locke the Superman: Mirror Ring
2007 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood
2008 Fist of the North Star: The Legend of Toki
2009 Final Fantasy VII: On the Way to a Smile - Episode Denzel
2010 Armored Trooper VOTOMS: Finder
2022 One Piece Film Red
Director:
1986 Fist of the North Star
1998 Satanika
2000 Locke the Superman: Mirror Ring
2007 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood
2008 Fist of the North Star: The Legend of Toki
2009 Final Fantasy VII: On the Way to a Smile - Episode Denzel
2010 Armored Trooper VOTOMS: Finder
2022 One Piece Film Red
Key Animation:
1986 Fist of the North Star
1986 Transformers: Scramble City
1988 Lady Lady!! The Movie
1989 Akko-chan's Got a Secret! – The Sea! The Specters!! The Summer Festival
1991 Psychic Wars
1993 Sailor Moon R: The Movie - The Promise of the Rose
1994 Sailor Moon S the Movie: Hearts in Ice
1995 Gunsmith Cats
1995 Sailor Moon SuperS: The Movie - Black Dream Hole
1998 Satanika
2000 Locke the Superman: Mirror Ring
2002 eX-Driver the Movie
2007 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood
2007 Yes! Precure 5: The Great Miracle Adventure in the Country of Mirrors
2008 Fist of the North Star: The Legend of Toki
2009 Final Fantasy VII: On the Way to a Smile - Episode Denzel
2009 Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life
2010 Armored Trooper VOTOMS: Finder
2011 Doraemon: Nobita and the New Steel Troops: Winged Angels
2022 One Piece Film Red
2023 Pretty Cure All Stars F
Supervising Animation Director:
1986 Fist of the North Star
1986 Transformers: Scramble City
1988 Lady Lady!! The Movie
1989 Akko-chan's Got a Secret! – The Sea! The Specters!! The Summer Festival
1991 Psychic Wars
1993 Sailor Moon R: The Movie - The Promise of the Rose
1994 Sailor Moon S the Movie: Hearts in Ice
1995 Gunsmith Cats
1995 Sailor Moon SuperS: The Movie - Black Dream Hole
1998 Satanika
2000 Locke the Superman: Mirror Ring
2002 eX-Driver the Movie
2007 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood
2007 Yes! Precure 5: The Great Miracle Adventure in the Country of Mirrors
2008 Fist of the North Star: The Legend of Toki
2009 Final Fantasy VII: On the Way to a Smile - Episode Denzel
2009 Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life
2010 Armored Trooper VOTOMS: Finder
2011 Doraemon: Nobita and the New Steel Troops: Winged Angels
2022 One Piece Film Red
2023 Pretty Cure All Stars F
Visual Effects:
1986 Fist of the North Star
1986 Transformers: Scramble City
1988 Lady Lady!! The Movie
1989 Akko-chan's Got a Secret! – The Sea! The Specters!! The Summer Festival
1991 Psychic Wars
1993 Sailor Moon R: The Movie - The Promise of the Rose
1994 Sailor Moon S the Movie: Hearts in Ice
1995 Gunsmith Cats
1995 Sailor Moon SuperS: The Movie - Black Dream Hole
1998 Satanika
2000 Locke the Superman: Mirror Ring
2002 eX-Driver the Movie
2007 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood
2007 Yes! Precure 5: The Great Miracle Adventure in the Country of Mirrors
2008 Fist of the North Star: The Legend of Toki
2009 Final Fantasy VII: On the Way to a Smile - Episode Denzel
2009 Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life
2010 Armored Trooper VOTOMS: Finder
2011 Doraemon: Nobita and the New Steel Troops: Winged Angels
2022 One Piece Film Red
2023 Pretty Cure All Stars F
Animation Director:
1993 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
2008 Casshern Sins
2012 From the New World
2016 Tiger Mask W
2018 Golden Kamuy
Character Designer:
1993 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
2008 Casshern Sins
2012 From the New World
2016 Tiger Mask W
2018 Golden Kamuy
2020 Pet
Key Animation:
1988 Crying Freeman
1993 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
1997 Berserk
2003 Fullmetal Alchemist
2008 Casshern Sins
2008 Cobra The Animation: The Psycho-Gun
2012 From the New World
2013 Star Blazers [Space Battleship Yamato] 2199
2015 Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans
2016 Drifters
2016 My Hero Academia
2016 Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju
2016 Tiger Mask W
2018 Golden Kamuy
2020 Pet
2022 LUPIN ZERO
2022 Shenmue the Animation
2022 Tekken: Bloodline
Lead Animator:
1988 Crying Freeman
1993 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
1997 Berserk
2003 Fullmetal Alchemist
2008 Casshern Sins
2008 Cobra The Animation: The Psycho-Gun
2012 From the New World
2013 Star Blazers [Space Battleship Yamato] 2199
2015 Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans
2016 Drifters
2016 My Hero Academia
2016 Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju
2016 Tiger Mask W
2018 Golden Kamuy
2020 Pet
2022 LUPIN ZERO
2022 Shenmue the Animation
2022 Tekken: Bloodline
2023 HIGH CARD
Supervising Animation Director:
1988 Crying Freeman
1993 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
1997 Berserk
2003 Fullmetal Alchemist
2008 Casshern Sins
2008 Cobra The Animation: The Psycho-Gun
2012 From the New World
2013 Star Blazers [Space Battleship Yamato] 2199
2015 Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans
2016 Drifters
2016 My Hero Academia
2016 Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju
2016 Tiger Mask W
2018 Golden Kamuy
2020 Oda Cinnamon Nobunaga
2020 Pet
2022 LUPIN ZERO
2022 Shenmue the Animation
2022 Tekken: Bloodline
2023 HIGH CARD
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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.