
Known for
Visual Effects
Born
February 28, 1962 (age 64)
Birthplace
Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Kitarō Kōsaka (高坂 希太郎, born February 28, 1962 in Kanagawa Prefecture) is a Japanese animator and film director.
He began his career in 1979 with the studio Oh! Production. He left the studio in 1986 to become a freelance, and soon went on to work on numerous projects as a key and supervising animation director for the noted animation studio Studio Ghibli, and with the famed director Hayao Miyazaki, of whose work he is himself an acknowledged fan.
In 2003, he directed the cycling anime film, Nasu: Summer in Andalusia, set on the Vuelta a España road bicycle race, adapted from Iō Kuroda's manga Nasu, which Hayao Miyazaki, a fan of cycling, himself recommended to Kōsaka. The film soon went on...
2023
Key Animation
2021
Key Animation
2018
Director
2017
Director
2015
Key Animation
2014
Key Animation
2013
Character Designer, Animation Director
2012
2011
Animation Director
2010
Animation Director
2007
Writer, Director
2004
Animation Director
2003
Director, Screenplay
2001
Animation Director
2001
Key Animation
1999
Director
1998
Character Designer, Director, Storyboard Artist, Animation Director, Supervising Animation Director
1997
Animation Director
1995
Character Designer, Animation Director
1994
Key Animation
1993
Director, Character Designer, Animation Director
1989
1988
Key Animation
1988
Key Animation
1987
Key Animation