Osamu Dezaki

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Known Credits

89

Gender

Male

Birthday

1943-11-18

Deathday

2011-04-17 (67 years old)

Place of Birth

Shinagawa, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan

Also Known As

  • Makura Saki
  • 崎枕
  • Kan Matsudo
  • 松戸完
  • Toru Yabuki
  • 矢吹徹
  • Kuyou Sai
  • 斉九洋
  • 出崎统

Osamu Dezaki

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.

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Art

2008
Ultraviolet: Code 044 as Storyboard Artist
1997
Hakugei: Legend of the Moby Dick as Storyboard Designer

Crew

1970
Tomorrow's Joe as Script

Directing

2009
The Tale of Genji as Director
2008
Ultraviolet: Code 044 as Director
2008
Ultraviolet: Code 044 as Series Director
2007
Clannad: The Motion Picture as Director
2005
Air: The Motion Picture as Director
2004
Hamtaro: Fairy Tale as Director
2004
Astro Boy: The Glorious Earth as Director
2003
Hamtaro: Miracle in Aurora Valley as Director
2003
Astro Boy: Ivan's Planet - Robot and Human Friendship as Director
2003
The Secret of Astro Boy’s Birth as Director
2002
Hamtaro: The Captive Princess as Director
2002
The Lady Oscar Story as Director
2001
Hamtaro: Adventures in Ham-Ham Land as Director
1998
Golgo 13: Queen Bee as Director
1997
Hakugei: Legend of the Moby Dick as Director
1997
In the Beginning: The Bible Stories as Series Director
1996
Black Jack: The Movie as Director
1996
The Heroic Elegy of Confucius as Director
1995
Lupin the Third: The Pursuit of Harimao's Treasure as Director
1993
Black Jack as Director
1992
Treasure Island Memorial as Director
1992
Lupin the Third: From Siberia with Love as Director
1991
Lupin the Third: Napoleon's Dictionary as Director
1991
Dear Brother as Director
1990
Sword for Truth as Director
1990
Burning Blood as Director
1990
Lupin the Third: The Hemingway Papers as Director
1989
Aim For The Ace! Final Stage as Director
1989
Lupin the Third: Bye Bye, Lady Liberty as Director
1989
Nightsong of Splendor as Series Director
1988
One Pound Gospel as Director
1988
Ace wo Nerae! 2 as Director
1987
Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light as Director
1987
Treasure Island: The Movie as Director
1987
Bionic Six as Director
1987
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland Pilot 3 as Director
1986
The Blinkins: The Bear and the Blizzard as Director
1985
Sweet Sea as Director
1984
Mighty Orbots as Director
1984
The Adventurers Gamba and His Seven Friends as Director
1984
Mighty Orbots: Magnetic Menace as Director
1983
A Time Slip of 10000 Years: Prime Rose as Director
1983
Golgo 13: The Professional as Director
1982
Space Cobra as Director
1982
Space Cobra as Series Director
1982
Space Adventure Cobra: The Movie as Director
1981
Tomorrow's Joe 2: The Movie as Director
1980
The Rose and Women of Versailles as Director
1980
Nobody's Boy: Remi (Movie) as Director
1980
Tomorrow's Joe The Movie as Director
1979
The Rose of Versailles as Director
1979
Aim for the Ace! as Director
1978
Treasure Island as Director
1977
Nobody's Boy: Remi as Director
1976
World Famous Fairy Tales as Director
1976
The Thunder God and the Mulberry Tree as Director
1975
Adventure of Gamba as Director
1974
The★Fire G-Men as Director
1973
Aim for the Ace! as Director
1970
Tomorrow's Joe as Director
1966
Adventures of the Monkey King as Director

Production

1980
Botchan as Producer

Visual Effects

1976
World Famous Fairy Tales as Character Designer
1973
Belladonna of Sadness as Key Animation
1969
Frosty the Snowman as Animation Director

Writing

2003
Hamtaro: Miracle in Aurora Valley as Writer
1998
Golgo 13: Queen Bee as Storyboard
1996
Black Jack: The Movie as Screenplay
1995
Lupin the Third: The Pursuit of Harimao's Treasure as Storyboard
1993
Black Jack as Screenplay
1993
Black Jack as Storyboard
1992
Treasure Island Memorial as Screenplay
1989
Aim For The Ace! Final Stage as Writer
1989
Nightsong of Splendor as Storyboard
1982
Space Cobra as Storyboard
1981
Tomorrow's Joe 2: The Movie as Screenplay
1979
Young Eleven as Writer
1970
Tomorrow's Joe as Writer
1970
Tomorrow's Joe as Storyboard
1963
Astro Boy as Storyboard
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