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Akihiko Yamashita

Name in Native Language: "山下明彦" (Japanese/JA)
Animator / Film Director / Screenwriter | * 02/06/1966 (58) | Okayama Prefecture, Chūgoku (Japan)
Akihiko Yamashita (山下 明彦, Yamashita Akihiko, born February 6, 1966, in Okayama Prefecture, Chūgoku, Japan) is a Studio Ghibli animator who is famous for Howl's Moving Castle and Giant Robo (OVA). ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Animation | Drama | Fantasy

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From director Hayao Miyazaki and the legendary Studio Ghibli, Howl's Moving Castle is an Academy Award-nominated acclaimed fantasy based on the novel of the same name by Diana Wynne Jones.Sophie, a qu ...

Howl's Moving Castle

PG

2004 | 4.2/5 | 1h 59min
Fantasy, Animation, Adventure
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A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane. ...

The Wind Rises

PG-13

2013 | 3.9/5 | 2h 6min
Drama, Animation, War, Romance / Love
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Young Haru rescues a cat from being run over, but soon learns it's no ordinary feline; it happens to be the Prince of the Cats. ...

The Cat Returns

G

2002 | 3.6/5 | 1h 15min
Adventure, Fantasy, Animation, Drama, Kids & Family
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A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family ...

Spirited Away

PG

2001 | 4.3/5 | 2h 5min
Animation, Kids & Family, Fantasy
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Movies with Akihiko Yamashita as Crew(21)

Visual Effects/Key Animation2023 The Boy and the Heron
Visual Effects/Key Animation2021 Tomorrow's Leaves
Directing/Director2018 Modest Heroes
Visual Effects/Animation Director2018 Modest Heroes
Writing/Screenplay2018 Modest Heroes
Visual Effects/Key Animation2016 Code Geass: Akito the Exiled 5: To Beloved Ones
Visual Effects/Animation Director2014 When Marnie Was There
Visual Effects/Key Animation2013 The Wind Rises
Visual Effects/Animation Director2011 From Up on Poppy Hill
Directing/Director2010 A Sumo Wrestler's Tail
Writing/Storyboard2010 A Sumo Wrestler's Tail
Visual Effects/Key Animation2009 Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance
Directing/Assistant Director2006 Tales from Earthsea
Visual Effects/Key Animation2001 Spirited Away
Visual Effects/Key Animation2000 Escaflowne: The Movie
Visual Effects/Key Animation1998 Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Fantasy
Visual Effects/Key Animation1998 Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team - Miller's Report
Visual Effects/Key Animation1996 Dragon Quest - Emblem of Roto
Visual Effects/Character Designer1987 Relic Armor Legaciam
Visual Effects/Animation Director1987 Relic Armor Legaciam
Visual Effects/Key Animation1987 Relic Armor Legaciam

TV Shows/Series with Akihiko Yamashita as Crew(9)

Visual Effects/Character Designer2020 Cagaster of an Insect Cage
Visual Effects/Key Animation2014 Japan Animator Expo
Visual Effects/Character Designer2000 Strange Dawn
Visual Effects/Key Animation2000 Fighting Spirit
Writing/Writer2000 The Tree In Sunlight
Art/Art Designer2000 NieA Under 7
Art/Storyboard Artist1999 The Big O
Visual Effects/Character Designer1998 Princess Nine
Writing/Storyboard1994 New Angel

Full Name: Akihiko Yamashita
Citizenship: Japan
Born: Sunday, 02/06 1966 (February) in Okayama Prefecture, Chūgoku (Japan) (current age: 58 years + 78 days)
Zodiac sign: Aquarius (Chinese zodiac sign: Horse)
Other names for Akihiko Yamashita (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"山下明彦"
"やました あきひこ" (Kana/Japanese)
Akihiko Yamashita frequently works together with these people:
Hayao Miyazaki (14x, Crew)
Takeshi Honda (13x, Crew)
Kazuyoshi Katayama (9x, Crew)
Koji Kasamatsu (9x, Crew)
Hiromasa Yonebayashi (9x, Crew)
Takeshi Inamura (8x, Crew)
Atsushi Tamura (8x, Crew)
Atsuko Tanaka (8x, Crew)
Hiroomi Yamakawa (8x, Crew)
Shôgo Furuya (7x, Crew)
Hideki Hamazu (7x, Crew)
Ken'ichi Yamada (7x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:1325030, Added: 09/03/2019, Last updated: 04/22/2024