A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Jiro Kawano
Jiro Kono
Jiro Kouno
Jirō Kōno
こうの じろう
Birthplace:
Hiroshima, Japan
Born:
January 1, 1949
Jirou Kouno (河野 次郎, Kōno Jirō) is a Japanese animation art director born in Hiroshima Prefecture. After working for Studio Uni, he established Image Room Jirou.
Art Direction:
1986 Mr. Pen Pen
1990 Eri Chimpui Activity Large Photo
1993 Weird Volunteers
1996 Black Jack: The Movie
2003 My Son Goku
2015 Kumi and Tulip
2016 Kacchikenee!
Art Designer:
1987 Ultra B
2013 Amnesia
2015 Castle Town Dandelion
2016 Pan de Peace!
2018 BAKI
2022 Raven of the Inner Palace
Art Direction:
1973 Zero Tester
1976 Dokaben
1983 Animated Aesop's Fables
1987 Tsuide ni Tonchinkan
1987 Ultra B
1988 Madonna
1997 Legend of the Last Labyrinth
2000 éX-Driver
2004 Phoenix
2007 School Days
2008 Ultraviolet: Code 044
2010 Model Suit Gunpla Builders Beginning G
2011 Phi Brain: Puzzle of God
2013 Amnesia
2013 Mangirl!
2014 Magical Warfare
2014 Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun
2015 Castle Town Dandelion
2016 Pan de Peace!
2018 BAKI
2018 Isekai Izakaya: Japanese Food from Another World
2018 MEGALOBOX
2021 Muteking the Dancing Hero
2022 Raven of the Inner Palace
2024 Atashinchi NEXT
2024 My Wife Has No Emotion
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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.