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Yoshifumi Kondō is a Director, Art Designer and Animation Director Japonais born on 31 march 1950 at Gosen (Japon)

Yoshifumi Kondō

Yoshifumi Kondō
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Nationality Japon
Birth 31 march 1950 at Gosen (Japon)
Death 21 january 1998 (at 47 years) at Tachikawa City (Japon)

Yoshifumi Kondō (近藤 喜文, Kondō Yoshifumi), né le 31 mars 1950 à Gosen et décédé le 21 janvier 1998 à Tachikawa, est un animateur membre du studio Ghibli.

Il a exercé durant sa carrière les métiers d'animateur clé, de chef animateur, de character designer, de réalisateur, de designer, etc. Il était souvent perçu comme le successeur d'Hayao Miyazaki, et on lui confiera notamment pour la première fois la réalisation d'un film (Si tu tends l'oreille, en 1995), tâche habituellement réservée aux deux fondateurs du studio : Isao Takahata et Miyazaki.

Il est mort le 21 janvier 1998, à la suite d'une dissection aortique (ou d’un anévrisme).

Best films

Princess Mononoke (1997)
(Animation Director)
Porco Rosso (1992)
(Key Animation)
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
(Character Designer)

Usually with

Isao Takahata
Isao Takahata
(4 films)
Toshio Suzuki
Toshio Suzuki
(6 films)
Atsushi Okui
Atsushi Okui
(5 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Yoshifumi Kondō (9 films)

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Director

Whisper of the Heart, 1h51
Directed by Yoshifumi Kondō
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Feminist films, Films about cats, Political films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Yōko Honna, Shigeru Muroi, Keiju Kobayashi, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Minami Takayama, Mayumi Iizuka
Rating78% 3.901053.901053.901053.901053.90105
Shizuku Tsukishima is a 14-year-old student at Mukaihara Junior High School, where she is best friends with Yuko Harada. Living in Tokyo with her parents Asako and Seiya, as well as her older sister Shiho, Shizuku is a bookworm and is keen on writing. During an ordinary evening, she looks through the checkout cards in her library books. She discovers they have been checked out by Seiji Amasawa. Over the next few days, Shizuku encounters a young man, later revealed to be Seiji, who often annoys her.

Art

Panda! Go Panda!: Rainy Day Circus
Directed by Isao Takahata
Genres Comedy, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Panda
Actors Kazuo Kumakura, Yasuo Yamada, Camille Donda, Philippe Catoire, Dorothée Pousséo, Gérard Surugue
Roles Art Designer
Rating66% 3.340193.340193.340193.340193.34019
Un bébé tigre échappé d'un cirque de passage s'introduit dans la maison de Mimiko en son absence et s'installe chez eux. Mais les propriétaires du cirque sont à sa recherche, et sa mère y est par ailleurs toujours enfermée.

Visual effects

Princess Mononoke, 2h14
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Environmental films, Feminist films, Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Films about religion, Transport films, Wolves in film, Demons in film, Political films, Alternate history films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Yuriko Ishida, Yoji Matsuda, Kaoru Kobayashi, Yūko Tanaka, Masahiko Nishimura, Makoto Satō
Roles Animation Director
Rating82% 4.149954.149954.149954.149954.14995
In Muromachi period Japan, an Emishi village is attacked by a demon. The last Emishi prince, Ashitaka, kills the demon before it reaches the village, but its corruption curses his arm in the battle. The curse gives him superhuman fighting abilities, but will eventually kill him. The villagers discover that the demon was once a boar god, Nago, corrupted by an iron ball lodged in his body. The village's wise woman tells Ashitaka that he may find a cure in the western lands Nago was exiled from.
Pom Poko
Pom Poko (1994)
, 1h59
Directed by Isao Takahata
Genres Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Environmental films, Feminist films, Films based on mythology, Film d'animation mettant en scène un animal, Mythologie japonaise, Political films, Children's films, Ecologie
Actors Yuriko Ishida, Patrick Floersheim, Guillaume Orsat, Andre Stojka, Shigeru Izumiya, Henri Labussière
Roles Key Animation
Rating72% 3.6482553.6482553.6482553.6482553.648255
The story begins in late 1960s Japan. A group of tanuki are threatened by a gigantic suburban development project called New Tama, in the Tama Hills on the outskirts of Tokyo. The development is cutting into their forest habitat and dividing their land. The story resumes in early 1990s Japan, during the early years of the Heisei era. With limited living space and food decreasing every year, the tanuki begin fighting among themselves for the diminishing resources, but at the urging of the matriarch Oroku ("Old Fireball"), they decide to unify to stop the development.
Ocean Waves, 1h12
Directed by Tomomi Mochizuki
Genres Drama, Animation, Romance
Themes Feminist films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Nobuo Tobita, Toshihiko Seki, Jun'ichi Kanemaru, Tomokazu Seki, Yuri Amano, Aya Hisakawa
Roles Key Animation
Rating65% 3.295893.295893.295893.295893.29589
At Kichijōji Station, Tokyo, Taku Morisaki glimpses a familiar woman on the platform opposite. Later, her photo falls from a shelf as he exits his apartment before flying to Kōchi Prefecture. As the plane takes off, he narrates the events that brought her into his life. The story is told in flashback.
Porco Rosso, 1h33
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Origin Japon
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Feminist films, Transport films, Aviation films, Films about pigs, Political films, Children's films
Actors Shūichirō Moriyama, Tokiko Kato, Akio Ōtsuka, Akemi Okamura, Cary Elwes, Tsunehiko Kamijō
Roles Key Animation
Rating77% 3.8513453.8513453.8513453.8513453.851345
Porco Rosso, a veteran WWI fighter ace and freelance bounty hunter, responds to an alert over an attack on a ferry liner by airborne pirates. Having successfully defeated the airborne pirates, Porco retires to the Hotel Adriano, which is run by his long-time friend Gina.
Only Yesterday, 1h58
Directed by Isao Takahata
Genres Drama, Action, Animation, Romance
Themes Feminist films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Miki Imai, Toshirō Yanagiba, Yōko Honna, Mayumi Iizuka, Ichirō Nagai, Daisy Ridley
Roles Animation Director
Rating75% 3.7965953.7965953.7965953.7965953.796595
In 1982, Taeko is 27 years old, unmarried, has lived her whole life in Tokyo and now works at a company there. She decides to take another trip to visit the family of the elder brother of her brother-in-law in the rural countryside to help with the safflower harvest and get away from city life. While traveling at night on a sleeper train to Yamagata, she begins to recall memories of herself as a schoolgirl in 1966, and her intense desire to go on holiday like her classmates, all of whom have family outside of the big city.
Kiki's Delivery Service, 1h42
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Feminist films, Films about magic and magicians, Transport films, Aviation films, Films about cats, Witches in film, Political films, Road movies, Alternate history films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Minami Takayama, Rei Sakuma, Kappei Yamaguchi, Keiko Toda, Haruko Katō, Yuriko Fuchizaki
Roles Animation Supervisor
Rating77% 3.89993.89993.89993.89993.8999
Thirteen-year-old Kiki leaves home to train as a witch with her talking black cat Jiji. She flies on her broomstick to the port city of Koriko. While trying to find somewhere to live, Kiki is pursued by Tombo, a geeky boy obsessed with aviation who admires her flying ability.
Grave of the Fireflies, 1h30
Directed by Isao Takahata
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, War, Animation
Themes Films about children, Films about families, Feminist films, Seafaring films, Transport films, L'enfance marginalisée, Political films, Children's films
Actors Veronica Taylor
Roles Character Designer
Rating84% 4.2499254.2499254.2499254.2499254.249925
The film begins at Sannomiya Station on 21 September 1945, shortly after the end of World War II. A boy, Seita (清太), is shown dying of starvation. Later that night, having removed Seita's body, a janitor digs through his possessions and finds a candy tin which he throws away into a nearby field. The spirit of Seita's younger sister, Setsuko (節子), springs from the tin and is joined by Seita's spirit as well as a cloud of fireflies. Seita's spirit then begins to narrate their story accompanied by an extended flashback of the final months of World War II.
Panda! Go Panda!: Rainy Day Circus
Directed by Isao Takahata
Genres Comedy, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Panda
Actors Kazuo Kumakura, Yasuo Yamada, Camille Donda, Philippe Catoire, Dorothée Pousséo, Gérard Surugue
Roles Key Animation
Rating66% 3.340193.340193.340193.340193.34019
Un bébé tigre échappé d'un cirque de passage s'introduit dans la maison de Mimiko en son absence et s'installe chez eux. Mais les propriétaires du cirque sont à sa recherche, et sa mère y est par ailleurs toujours enfermée.