1. Gorō Miyazaki (1967)

Japanese Anime Director

Japanese animator and film director who is known for his films Tales from Earthsea and From Up on Poppy Hill. The latter, released in 2011, won the 2012 Japan Academy...

2. Yutaka Yamamoto (1974)

Japanese Anime Director

Japanese anime director who is the founder of the Ordet animation studio.

3. Hideaki Anno (1960)

Japanese Anime Director

Animator and film director known for his work on the popular anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion.

4. Shigeharu Shiba (Unknow)

Japanese Anime Director

Shigeharu Shiba is an anime audio director and producer. He graduated from Tokyo University of Education and went on to form the Jiyū Theatre Troupe. Shiba then joined Omnibus Promotion...

5. Gisaburō Sugii (1940)

Japanese Anime Director

Gisaburō Sugii is an anime director and Nihonga artist. He is a member of the anime studio Group TAC and is most well known for his work as director of...

6. Masayuki Miyaji (1976)

Japanese Anime Director

Masayuki Miyaji born on February 1 1976 is a Japanese anime director and supervisor.

7. Tatsuyuki Nagai (1976)

Japanese Anime Director

Tatsuyuki Nagai is a Japanese anime director and member of the noted anime studio Sunrise. He made his full directorial debut with 2006's Honey and Clover II after which he...

8. Toshiki Hirano (Unknow)

Japanese Anime Director

Toshiki Hirano October 3 1956 in Tokyo Japan) is a Japanese anime director animator and character designer. His wife is animator and manga artist Narumi Kakinouchi. Some of his works...

9. Hiroshi Fukutomi (1950)

Japanese Anime Director

Hiroshi Fukutomi ) is an anime director born July 25 1950 in Kōchi Prefecture Japan. After leaving Tokyo Designer Gakuin in the middle of his studies he joined A Production....

10. Keiichi Hara (1959)

Japanese Anime Director

Keiichi Hara is a Japanese director of animated films.

11. Kazuki Akane (1962)

Japanese Anime Director

Kazuki Akane is a Japanese director of Japanese animation. Until the early 2000s he was a staff member of the anime studio Sunrise where he collaborated with Shoji Kawamori to...

12. Kunihiko Yuyama (1952)

Japanese Anime Director

Kunihiko Yuyama is a Japanese director of anime films television and video series. His best-known work involves Pokémon productions. Other anime he has directed include Kimagure Orange Road: Summer's Beginning...

13. Kazuo Oga (1952)

Japanese Anime Director

Kazuo Oga is an art director and background artist for many Madhouse Studio and Studio Ghibli anime films Oga worked with major directors Hayao Miyazaki Isao Takahata Yoshiaki Kawajiri Osamu...

14. Tetsurō Amino (Unknow)

Japanese Anime Director

Tetsurō Amino is a Japanese anime director born on October 10 1955 in Chiba Prefecture. In 1988 he started using his name in katakana. He has directed noted anime series...

15. Junji Nishimura (Unknow)

Japanese Anime Director

Junji Nishimura is a male Japanese animation director and producer from Yobuko Saga Japan though currently resides in Karatsu Saga. After graduating from Meiji Gakuin University in 1980 Nishimura entered...

16. Takeshi Koike (1968)

Japanese Anime Director

Takeshi Koike is a Japanese studio animator illustrator and film director. Something of a protégée of Yoshiaki Kawajiri he was also influenced by Yoshinori Kanada Frank Miller Mike Mignola...

17. Kazuto Nakazawa (1968)

Japanese Anime Director

Kazuto Nakazawa is a Japanese character designer and director of numerous anime series and video games who also goes by the pseudonym Takeshi Tsuji. His directorial work includes Parasite Dolls...

18. Mitsuo Fukuda (1960)

Japanese Anime Director

Mitsuo Fukuda is the director of Future GPX Cyber Formula Gear Fighter Dendoh Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny. Anime directed by Fukuda that have...

19. Shinji Aramaki (1960)

Japanese Anime Director

Shinji Aramaki is a Japanese anime director and mechanical designer born in Fukuoka Prefecture. He was a member of Artmic. He is noted for work on powered exoskeletons and his...

20. Kazuhiro Furuhashi (1960)

Japanese Anime Director

Kazuhiro Furuhashi is a Japanese anime director and supervisor born in Hamamatsu Shizuoka Prefecture. He is amongst anime's most foremost directors having directed and helmed the entire Rurouni Kenshin series...

21. Katsuhiko Nishijima (1960)

Japanese Anime Director

Katsuhiko Nishijima is a Japanese anime director.

22. Masayuki Kojima (1961)

Japanese Anime Director

Masayuki Kojima is a Japanese animator and director who worked with Madhouse before leaving the company and going freelance in 2011. He was born on March 11 1961 in Yamanashi...

23. Hiroyuki Imaishi (1971)

Japanese Anime Director

Hiroyuki Imaishi is a Japanese key animator and anime director. His style is marked by fast and frantic animation combined with elaborate storyboarding and punchy direction. A former animator and...

24. Mitsuyuki Masuhara (1973)

Japanese Anime Director

Mitsuyuki Masuhara is a Japanese anime film director at Madhouse. He was born on December 5 1973 and has been with Madhouse since 1999. Masuhara started at the company as...

25. Mahiro Maeda (1963)

Japanese Anime Director

Mahiro Maeda born March 14 1963 is one of the most prominent Japanese anime creators working today having worked as director character designer and animator for many of Japan's top...

26. Takayuki Hamana (1967)

Japanese Anime Director

Takayuki Hamana is a Japanese animation director attached to Trans Arts.