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Hiroyuki Kitakubo is a Director, Writer, Storyboard Artist and Key Animation Japonais born on 15 november 1963 at Bunkyō-ku (Japon)
Hiroyuki Kitakubo (北久保 弘之, Kitakubo Hiroyuki, born November 15, 1963) is a Japanese director, animator, and screenwriter.
Kitakubo began work in the anime industry as a teenager, having worked on the 1979 Mobile Suit Gundam television series. He debuted as a director with the Cream Lemon episode "Pop Chaser" in 1985, then worked on films including Black Magic M-66 with Masamune Shirow and Akira with Katsuhiro Otomo. Kitakubo went on to direct the "A Tale of Two Robots" segment from Robot Carnival, the original video animation (OVA) series Golden Boy, and the films Roujin Z and Blood: The Last Vampire. In 2001, Kitakubo won the "Individual Award" at The 6th Animation Kobe for the latter film. Blood: The Last Vampire also won grand prize at the 2000 Japan Media Arts Festival and first prize the 2001 World Animation Celebration.
Alors qu'il est encore au lycée, il travaille déjà à temps partiel en tant qu'animateur. II fait ses débuts en 1979 sur la série Mobile Suit Gundam en tant qu'intervalliste. Après avoir travaillé pour les studios Nakamura Production et Neo-media, il devient indépendant. En 1982, il fonde avec d'autres animateurs indépendants le studio MIN, qui finit par faire banqueroute en 1990. Il réalise des OAVs érotiques (Cream Lemon - Popchaser, Golden Boy) et participe à de nombreux projets de Mamoru Oshii (L'Œuf de l'ange, Blood: The Last Vampire) et de Katsuhiro Ōtomo (Robot Carnival, Roujin Z).
En 2001, il gagne la "Récompense individuelle" à la sixième convention d'Animation Kōbe pour son dernier film. Blood: The Last Vampire a aussi gagné le grand prix du Japan Media Arts Festival en 2000 et le premier prix au World Animation Celebration en 2001.
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Kitakubo began work in the anime industry as a teenager, having worked on the 1979 Mobile Suit Gundam television series. He debuted as a director with the Cream Lemon episode "Pop Chaser" in 1985, then worked on films including Black Magic M-66 with Masamune Shirow and Akira with Katsuhiro Otomo. Kitakubo went on to direct the "A Tale of Two Robots" segment from Robot Carnival, the original video animation (OVA) series Golden Boy, and the films Roujin Z and Blood: The Last Vampire. In 2001, Kitakubo won the "Individual Award" at The 6th Animation Kobe for the latter film. Blood: The Last Vampire also won grand prize at the 2000 Japan Media Arts Festival and first prize the 2001 World Animation Celebration.
Biography
Hiroyuki Kitakubo est né à Tōkyō le 15 novembre 1963 dans l'arrondissement de Bunkyō.Alors qu'il est encore au lycée, il travaille déjà à temps partiel en tant qu'animateur. II fait ses débuts en 1979 sur la série Mobile Suit Gundam en tant qu'intervalliste. Après avoir travaillé pour les studios Nakamura Production et Neo-media, il devient indépendant. En 1982, il fonde avec d'autres animateurs indépendants le studio MIN, qui finit par faire banqueroute en 1990. Il réalise des OAVs érotiques (Cream Lemon - Popchaser, Golden Boy) et participe à de nombreux projets de Mamoru Oshii (L'Œuf de l'ange, Blood: The Last Vampire) et de Katsuhiro Ōtomo (Robot Carnival, Roujin Z).
En 2001, il gagne la "Récompense individuelle" à la sixième convention d'Animation Kōbe pour son dernier film. Blood: The Last Vampire a aussi gagné le grand prix du Japan Media Arts Festival en 2000 et le premier prix au World Animation Celebration en 2001.
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Blood: The Last Vampire (2000)
Directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Animation
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Vampires in film
Actors Yūki Kudō, Saemi Nakamura, Joe Romersa, Rebecca Forstadt, Tom Fahn, Paul Carr
Rating66%
The story is set in 1966. Its main protagonist is a girl named Saya, who hunts bat-like creatures called chiropterans. Saya is introduced on a subway train, where she assassinates a man in a suit. Her American contacts or handlers arrive. One of them, David, begins to brief Saya on another mission, while the other, Louis, discovers that the man Saya has just killed was probably not a chiropteran.
Roujin Z (1991)
Directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Animation
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Chisa Yokoyama, Shinji Ogawa, Chie Satō, Seán Barrett, Takeshi Aono, Jana Carpenter
Rating67%
Roujin Z is set in early 21st century Japan. A group of scientists and hospital administrators, under the direction of the Ministry of Public Welfare, have developed the Z-001: a computerized hospital bed with robotic features. The Z-001 takes complete care of the patient: it can dispense food and medicine, remove excretory waste, bathe and exercise the patient lying within its frame. The bed is driven by its own built-in nuclear power reactor—and in the event of an atomic meltdown, the bed (including the patient lying within) would become automatically sealed in concrete. The first patient to be "volunteered" to test the bed is a dying widower named Kiyuro Takazawa. He is an invalid who is cared for by a young nursing student named Haruko. The electronic elements within the Z-001 somehow manage to transcribe Takazawa's thoughts through Haruko's office computer, and he uses the communication to cry for help. Although she objects to such treatment of elderly patients, Haruko begrudgingly seeks the aid of a group of computer hackers in the hospital's geriatric ward to create and install a vocal simulation of Takazawa's deceased wife in the Z-001. However, once Takazawa wishes to go to the beach, the Z-001 detaches itself from its moorings and escapes from the hospital with the man in its grasp. Haruko's fears are then justified, as it is discovered that the bed is actually a government-designed, experimental weapons robot.
Robot Carnival (1987)
, 1h30Directed by Kōji Morimoto, Takashi Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kitakubo, Katsuhiro Ōtomo
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Animation
Themes Robot films
Actors Hideyuki Umezu, Ikuya Sawaki, Daisuke Namikawa, Kei Tomiyama, Chisa Yokoyama, Kaneto Shiozawa
Rating69%
Le début se déroule dans le désert. En trouvant une affiche annonçant l’arrivée imminente de Robot Carnival, un garçon semble soudain effrayé et en proie à une grande agitation. Il court avertir son village pour s’enfuir, quand une lourde machine grouillante de robots apparaît et c'est une gigantesque forteresse mobile, se dirigeant droit sur les habitations. Autrefois une magnifique fête foraine, ce n’est plus aujourd’hui qu’un engin de destruction endommagé, rouillé et déglingué.
Scriptwriter
Robot Carnival (1987)
, 1h30Directed by Kōji Morimoto, Takashi Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kitakubo, Katsuhiro Ōtomo
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Animation
Themes Robot films
Actors Hideyuki Umezu, Ikuya Sawaki, Daisuke Namikawa, Kei Tomiyama, Chisa Yokoyama, Kaneto Shiozawa
Roles Writer
Rating69%
Le début se déroule dans le désert. En trouvant une affiche annonçant l’arrivée imminente de Robot Carnival, un garçon semble soudain effrayé et en proie à une grande agitation. Il court avertir son village pour s’enfuir, quand une lourde machine grouillante de robots apparaît et c'est une gigantesque forteresse mobile, se dirigeant droit sur les habitations. Autrefois une magnifique fête foraine, ce n’est plus aujourd’hui qu’un engin de destruction endommagé, rouillé et déglingué.
Art
Blood: The Last Vampire (2000)
Directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Animation
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Vampires in film
Actors Yūki Kudō, Saemi Nakamura, Joe Romersa, Rebecca Forstadt, Tom Fahn, Paul Carr
Roles Storyboard Artist
Rating66%
The story is set in 1966. Its main protagonist is a girl named Saya, who hunts bat-like creatures called chiropterans. Saya is introduced on a subway train, where she assassinates a man in a suit. Her American contacts or handlers arrive. One of them, David, begins to brief Saya on another mission, while the other, Louis, discovers that the man Saya has just killed was probably not a chiropteran.
Roujin Z (1991)
Directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Animation
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Chisa Yokoyama, Shinji Ogawa, Chie Satō, Seán Barrett, Takeshi Aono, Jana Carpenter
Roles Storyboard Artist
Rating67%
Roujin Z is set in early 21st century Japan. A group of scientists and hospital administrators, under the direction of the Ministry of Public Welfare, have developed the Z-001: a computerized hospital bed with robotic features. The Z-001 takes complete care of the patient: it can dispense food and medicine, remove excretory waste, bathe and exercise the patient lying within its frame. The bed is driven by its own built-in nuclear power reactor—and in the event of an atomic meltdown, the bed (including the patient lying within) would become automatically sealed in concrete. The first patient to be "volunteered" to test the bed is a dying widower named Kiyuro Takazawa. He is an invalid who is cared for by a young nursing student named Haruko. The electronic elements within the Z-001 somehow manage to transcribe Takazawa's thoughts through Haruko's office computer, and he uses the communication to cry for help. Although she objects to such treatment of elderly patients, Haruko begrudgingly seeks the aid of a group of computer hackers in the hospital's geriatric ward to create and install a vocal simulation of Takazawa's deceased wife in the Z-001. However, once Takazawa wishes to go to the beach, the Z-001 detaches itself from its moorings and escapes from the hospital with the man in its grasp. Haruko's fears are then justified, as it is discovered that the bed is actually a government-designed, experimental weapons robot.
Visual effects
Akira (1988)
, 2h4Directed by Takashi Nakamura, Katsuhiro Ōtomo
Origin Japon
Genres Science fiction, Action, Animation
Themes Films about computing, Seafaring films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Transport films, Motocyclette, Films set in the future, Political films, Road movies, Cyberpunk films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Tesshō Genda, Tarō Ishida, Hiroshi Ōtake
Roles Key Animation
Rating79%
On 16 July 1988, an orb of light destroys Tokyo and World War III begins. Thirty-one years later, in the city of Neo-Tokyo, Shotaro Kaneda has his bōsōzoku gang, the Capsules, battle their rival gang, the Clowns. While there, Kaneda's best friend, Tetsuo Shima, crashes his motorcycle into Takashi, an esper with psychic powers, who had fled from a secret government laboratory with help from a covert operative. Colonel Shikishima, assisted by another esper called Maseru, has Takashi escorted back to his original lodgings and Tetsuo is abducted. When Kaneda and his gang are interrogated, he encounters Kei, a member of the revolutionary group, and arranges her release along with the Capsules.
Directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino
Genres Science fiction, Action, Animation, Military science fiction
Themes Space opera
Actors Tōru Furuya, Kōichi Yamadera, Maria Kawamura, Shūichi Ikeda, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Nozomu Sasaki
Roles Key Animation
Rating72%
Set in March UC 0093, the film features the return of main antagonist Char Aznable, who has emerged after five years in hiding to lead the Neo-Zeon once more in the fight for supremacy over the Earth Federation. Still determined to make humankind fully colonize in space, he mobilizes the Neo-Zeon to drop the asteroid 5th Luna on the Federation headquarters in Lhasa, Tibet. Under the guise of surrendering all Neo-Zeon military forces, he plans to drop the Axis asteroid base on Earth as well.
, 1h55Directed by Shōji Kawamori, Katsuhito Akiyama (秋山勝仁), Noboru Ishiguro
Genres Drama, Science fiction, War, Action, Adventure, Musical, Animation, Romance
Themes Feminist films, Political films, Space opera, Children's films, Robot films
Actors Mari Iijima, Mika Doi, Akira Kamiya, Michio Hazama, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Ryūsuke Ōbayashi
Roles Key Animation
Rating76%
The film begins in medias res with the space fortress Macross trying to evade the Zentradi at the edge of the Solar System. The Macross houses an entire city with tens of thousands of civilians who are cut off from Earth, after it had executed a space fold on the first day of the Earth/Zentradi war - taking the city section of South Ataria Island with it. During the latest assault, Valkyrie pilot Hikaru Ichijyo rescues pop idol Lynn Minmay, but are both trapped in a section of the fortress for days. Even after their eventual rescue, this fateful meeting leads to a relationship between the singer and her number one fan.
Urusei Yatsura: Only You (1983)
, 1h20Directed by Mamoru Oshii
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Animation, Romance
Actors Fumi Hirano, Akira Kamiya, Ichirō Nagai, Shigeru Chiba, Toshio Furukawa
Roles Key Animation
Rating66%
Toute la ville de Tomobiki est conviée au mariage d'Ataru...sauf Lum. Et pour cause; Ataru lui-même n'est pas au courant ! Il est en effet censé se marier avec la princesse Elle, venue d'une lointaine planète éponyme. Pourquoi donc ? La raison est simple : il y a 11 ans de ça, au cours d'une partie de "chat" improvisée entre la petite princesse en visite sur Terre et le très jeune Ataru, notre anti-héros préféré a posé le pied sur l'ombre de sa partenaire, ce qui, sur la planète Elle, équivaut à des fiançailles en bonnes et dues formes. En venant réclamer son futur époux, la belle princesse va déclencher une crise qui dépassera bien vite les frontières de Tomobiki ; pour empêcher cette inconcevable union, Lum et sa tribu au grand complet devront s'embarquer dans une aventure intersidérale sur fond d'enlèvement et de mariage express.