Nizou Yamamoto
- Art direction
- June 27, 1953 · Fukue, Nagasaki, Japan [now Goto, Nagasaki, Japan]
- August 19, 2023
Biography
Nizou Yamamoto (山本 二三, Yamamoto Nizō) was born on 27 June 1953 in Fukue-shi (a town within Gotou City [Gotou-shi]), in Nagasaki Prefecture, and was one of the most well-known anime art directors and background artists in Japan. He was especially famous for his work on several of the Studio Ghibli films directed or produced by Hayao Miyazaki or Isao Takahata including Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986), Grave of the Fireflies (1988), Only Yesterday (1991), Whisper of the Heart (1995), Princess Mononoke (1997), and Spirited Away (2001).
Known for
Filmography
- The Story of Yanagawa Waterways · Art Direction
- Sherlock Hound: The Movie · Art Direction
- The Making of Weathering with You · Self
- Weathering with You · Painter
- Rainbow Fireflies · Background Designer
- Welcome to the Space Show · Background Designer
- Miyori's Forest · Director, Storyboard Artist
- The River's Light · Art Direction
- The Girl Who Leapt Through Time · Art Direction
- Fantastic Children · Art Direction
- Spirited Away · Background Designer
- Perfect Blue · Background Designer
- Princess Mononoke · Art Direction
- Whisper of the Heart · Background Designer
- Open the Door · Art Direction
- Lupin the Third: Greatest Capers · Art Direction
- Coo of the Far Seas · Art Direction
- Only Yesterday · Background Designer
- Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland · Art Direction
- Grave of the Fireflies · Art Direction
- Robot Carnival · Art Designer, Background Designer
- Robot Carnival · Background Designer
- Castle in the Sky · Art Direction
- Sherlock Hound · Art Direction
- Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland Pilot 2 · Art Direction
- Drifting Clouds · Background Designer
- Chie the Brat · Art Direction
- Future Boy Conan · Art Direction
- The Castle of Cagliostro · Background Designer
- Anne of Green Gables · Assistant Art Director
- Future Boy Conan · Art Direction
- Lupin the 3rd · Art Designer