A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
近岡 直
Birthplace:
Toyama, Japan
Born:
September 18, 1979
Sunao Chikaoka (近岡 直, Chikaoka Sunao) is an animator, animation director, character designer and prop designer from Toyama, Japan.
Animation Director:
2014 Wake Up, Girls! - Seven Idols
2022 Drifting Home
2024 My Oni Girl
Character Designer:
2012 Blossom
2014 Wake Up, Girls! - Seven Idols
2019 Twilight
2022 Drifting Home
2024 My Oni Girl
Key Animation:
2010 Black★Rock Shooter
2012 Blossom
2013 Patema Inverted
2014 Wake Up, Girls! - Seven Idols
2019 Twilight
2022 Drifting Home
2024 My Oni Girl
Supervising Animation Director:
2010 Black★Rock Shooter
2012 Blossom
2013 Patema Inverted
2014 Wake Up, Girls! - Seven Idols
2019 Twilight
2022 Drifting Home
2024 My Oni Girl
Animation Director:
2007 Gurren Lagann
2008 Michiko & Hatchin
2008 Today in Class 5-2
2010 Wagnaria!!
2012 Sword Art Online
2013 Encouragement of Climb
2014 When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace
2016 Yuri!!! on Ice
2017 A Centaur's Life
2020 Pokémon: Twilight Wings
Character Designer:
2007 Gurren Lagann
2008 Michiko & Hatchin
2008 Today in Class 5-2
2010 Wagnaria!!
2011 Abnormal Physiology Seminar
2012 Sword Art Online
2013 Encouragement of Climb
2014 Wake Up, Girls!
2014 When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace
2016 Yuri!!! on Ice
2017 A Centaur's Life
2020 Pokémon: Twilight Wings
2021 Night World
Key Animation:
2007 Gigantic Formula
2007 Gurren Lagann
2008 Michiko & Hatchin
2008 Today in Class 5-2
2009 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
2010 Sound of the Sky
2010 Wagnaria!!
2011 Abnormal Physiology Seminar
2011 Puella Magi Madoka Magica
2011 Usagi Drop
2012 Sword Art Online
2013 Encouragement of Climb
2013 Oreshura
2014 Wake Up, Girls!
2014 When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace
2016 Occultic;Nine
2016 Yuri!!! on Ice
2017 A Centaur's Life
2020 Pokémon: Twilight Wings
2021 Night World
Supervising Animation Director:
2007 Gigantic Formula
2007 Gurren Lagann
2008 Michiko & Hatchin
2008 Today in Class 5-2
2009 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
2010 Sound of the Sky
2010 Wagnaria!!
2011 Abnormal Physiology Seminar
2011 Puella Magi Madoka Magica
2011 Usagi Drop
2012 Sword Art Online
2013 Encouragement of Climb
2013 Oreshura
2014 Wake Up, Girls!
2014 When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace
2016 Occultic;Nine
2016 Yuri!!! on Ice
2017 A Centaur's Life
2020 Pokémon: Twilight Wings
2021 Night World
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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.