Osamu Dezaki
- Directing
- November 18, 1943 · Meguro, Tokyo, Japan
- April 17, 2011
Biography
Osamu Dezaki (November 18, 1943 – April 17, 2011) also known as Makura Saki (崎枕 Saki Makura), Kan Matsudo (松戸完 Matsudo Kan), Toru Yabuki (矢吹徹 Yabuki Toru) or Kuyou Sai (斉九洋 Sai Kuyou), was a Japanese anime director and screenwriter. He is acknowledged to be one of the best and most influential Anime directors and popularized various techniques that are now considered standard in Japanese animation. Dezaki developed a highly distinctive Signature Style and is credited with inventing the Pastel-Chalked Freeze Frame.
Known for
Filmography
- The Tale of Genji · Director
- Ultraviolet: Code 044 · Director, Series Director
- Clannad: The Motion Picture · Director
- Air: The Motion Picture · Director
- Hamtaro: Fairy Tale · Director
- Astro Boy: The Glorious Earth · Director
- Hamtaro: Miracle in Aurora Valley · Director, Writer
- Astro Boy: Ivan's Planet - Robot and Human Friendship · Director
- The Secret of Astro Boy’s Birth · Director
- Hamtaro: The Captive Princess · Director
- The Lady Oscar Story · Director
- Hamtaro: Adventures in Ham-Ham Land · Director
- Golgo 13: Queen Bee · Director, Storyboard
- Hakugei: Legend of the Moby Dick · Director, Storyboard Designer
- Historias de la Biblia · Creator
- Black Jack: The Movie · Director, Screenplay
- The Heroic Elegy of Confucius · Director
- Lupin the Third: The Pursuit of Harimao's Treasure · Director, Storyboard
- Black Jack · Director, Screenplay
- Treasure Island Memorial · Screenplay, Director
- In the Beginning: The Bible Stories · Series Director, Director
- Lupin the Third: From Siberia with Love · Director
- Lupin the Third: Napoleon's Dictionary · Director
- Dear Brother · Director
- Sword for Truth · Director
- Burning Blood · Director, Creator
- Lupin the Third: The Hemingway Papers · Director
- Aim For The Ace! Final Stage · Director, Writer
- Lupin the Third: Bye Bye, Lady Liberty · Director, Storyboard Artist
- Nightsong of Splendor · Series Director, Storyboard
- One Pound Gospel · Director
- Aim for the Ace! Another Match · Supervising Animator, Storyboard Artist
- Ace wo Nerae! 2 · Director
- Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light · Director
- Treasure Island: The Movie · Director
- Bionic Six · Director
- Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland Pilot 3 · Director
- The Blinkins: The Bear and the Blizzard · Director
- Sweet Sea · Director
- Mighty Orbots · Director
- The Adventurers Gamba and His Seven Friends · Director
- Mighty Orbots: Magnetic Menace · Director
- Golgo 13: The Professional · Director
- Space Cobra · Series Director, Storyboard
- Space Adventure Cobra · Director
- Tomorrow's Joe 2: The Movie · Director, Screenplay
- The Rose and Women of Versailles · Director
- Botchan · Producer
- Nobody's Boy: Remi (Movie) · Director
- Tomorrow's Joe The Movie · Director
- The Rose of Versailles · Director, Storyboard Artist
- Aim for the Ace! The Movie · Director
- Young Eleven · Writer
- Animated Travels: Marco Polo's Adventures · Creator
- Treasure Island · Director
- Nobody's Boy: Remi · Director
- Manga Fairy Tales of the World · Director, Character Designer
- The Thunder God and the Mulberry Tree · Director
- Adventure of Gamba · Director, Creator
- The★Fire G-Men · Director
- Aim for the Ace! · Director
- Belladonna of Sadness · Key Animation
- Tomorrow's Joe · Director, Writer
- Frosty the Snowman · Animation Director
- Dororo and Hyakkimaru · Director
- Adventures of the Monkey King · Director