List_of_anime_directors
This is a list of notable anime directors. Romanized names are written in Western order (given names before family names), whereas kanji names are written in Japanese order (family names before given names).
A
- Masashi Ando (安藤 雅司)[1]
- Hideaki Anno (庵野 秀明)[2]
- Ei Aoki (あおき えい)[3]
- Morio Asaka (浅香 守生)
D
- Osamu Dezaki (出﨑 統)[4]
H
- Keiichi Hara (原 恵一)
- Mamoru Hosoda (細田 守)[5]
I
- Kunihiko Ikuhara (幾原 邦彦)[6]
- Tomoyuki Itamura (板村 智幸)
- Atsuko Ishizuka (いしずかあつこ)
K
- Sunao Katabuchi (片渕 須直)
- Yoshiaki Kawajiri (川尻 善昭)[7]
- Shōji Kawamori (河森 正治)[8]
- Osamu Kobayashi (小林 治)[9]
- Satoshi Kon (今 敏)[10]
M
- Kōichi Mashimo (真下 耕一)[11]
- Tsutomu Mizushima (水島 努)
- Hayao Miyazaki (宮崎 駿)[12]
- Takeshi Mori (もりたけし)[13]
N
- Shingo Natsume (夏目真悟)[14]
O
- Mari Okada (岡田 麿里)[15]
- Shinichi Omata (小俣 真一)
- Shin Oonuma (大沼 心)
- Mamoru Oshii (押井 守)[16]
- Katsuhiro Otomo (大友 克洋)[17]
R
S
- Junichi Sato (佐藤 順一)[19]
- Akiyuki Shinbo (新房 昭之)[20]
- Makoto Shinkai (新津 誠)
T
- Isao Takahata (高畑 勲)[21]
U
- Hiroko Utsumi (内海紘子)
Y
- Naoko Yamada (山田 尚子)[22]
- Masaaki Yuasa (湯浅 政明)
- "安藤雅司「鹿の王」でアニメファン待望の初監督! 20年9月18日に公開". 映画ニュース (in Japanese). Kakaku.com. December 10, 2019. Retrieved August 30, 2021.
- "Personal Biography - 庵野秀明公式web". khara.co.jp. Archived from the original on 14 June 2016. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
- "Ei Aoki, Otaro Maijo Work on ID: INVADED Original Anime Project". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2022-09-15.
- "Longtime anime director Osamu Dezaki dead at 67" Archived 2013-01-17 at archive.today. forum.bcdb.com, April 18, 2011
- Blair, Gavin J. (November 1, 2016). "Anime Director Mamoru Hosoda on Drawing by Hand and the Industry Post-Hayao Miyazaki (Q&A)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved March 20, 2019.
- "Interview: Kunihiko Ikuhara". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2022-09-15.
- "Sakuracon-2012 Yoshiaki Kawajiri Q&A". Anime News Network. 6 April 2012. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
- Barder, Ollie (December 10, 2015). "Shoji Kawamori, The Creator Hollywood Copies But Never Credits". Forbes. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
- "Kunio Okawara, Osamu Kobayashi, More Win TAAF's Lifetime Achievement Award". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2022-09-15.
- Sevakis, Justin (August 21, 2008). "Interview: Satoshi Kon". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on April 8, 2016. Retrieved October 24, 2008.
- Wong, Amos (March 2005). "Inside Bee Train". Newtype USA. Vol. 4, no. 3. pp. 8–15. ISSN 1541-4817.
- Komatsu, Mikikazu. "Hayao Miyazaki Named Person of Cultural Merit by Japanese Government". Crunchyroll. Retrieved 2022-09-15.
- "もりたけしに訊け (Mori Takeshi ni Kike)" [Ask Takeshi Mori] (in Japanese). Anime Web Insider Tornado Base. Archived from the original on December 31, 2007. Retrieved 2015-11-17.
- Loo, Egan (April 28, 2021). "One-Punch Man Helmer Shingo Natsume, Madhouse Reunite for Sci-Fi Survival Anime Sonny Boy". Anime News Network. Retrieved December 5, 2021.
- "ANIME NEWS: Mari Okada wins Kobe Animation Award - AJW by the Asahi Shimbun". Archived from the original on 7 January 2014. Retrieved 2013-01-13. Retrieved 13 January 2013
- "Midnight Eye interview: Mamorou Oshii". Archived from the original on 16 September 2008. Retrieved 19 September 2008.
- "Katsuhiro Otomo On Creating 'Akira' And Designing The Coolest Bike In All Of Manga And Anime". Forbes. 2017-05-26. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
- "Rintaro in Chicago". Anime News Network. 2004-01-26. Retrieved 2008-08-22.
- "Junichi Sato Reflects on Making Anime With Women, For Girls". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2022-09-15.
- "Interview: Akiyuki Shinbo (WEB Anime Style 2/14/2005) Part 1". Wave Motion Cannon. Translated by Morissy, Kim. October 30, 2016.
- Slotnik, Daniel E. (7 April 2018). "Isao Takahata, Leader in Japanese Animation, Dies at 82". The New York Times. p. B7. Archived from the original on 2018-04-12. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
- Pineda, Rafael Antonio (September 2, 2021). "Science SARU Reveals The Heike Story TV Anime by Naoko Yamada". Anime News Network. Retrieved September 2, 2021.