About
Kitarō Kōsaka (高坂 希太郎, born February 28, 1962 in Kanagawa Prefecture) is a Japanese animator and film director. He began his career in 1979 with the studio Oh! Production. He left the studio in 1986 to become a freelance, and soon went on to work on numerous projects as a key and supervising animation director for the noted animation studio Studio Ghibli, and with the famed director Hayao Miyazaki, of whose work he is himself an acknowledged fan. In 2003, he directed the cycling anime film, Nasu: Summer in Andalusia, set on the Vuelta a España road bicycle race, adapted from Iō Kuroda's manga Nasu, which Hayao Miyazaki, a fan of cycling, himself recommended to Kōsaka. The film soon went on to become the first Japanese anime film ever to be selected for the Cannes Film Festival. He has worked on numerous other projects for the studio Madhouse, including adaptations of manga artist...
Known for
Spirited AwayMovie • 2001
Howl's Moving CastleMovie • 2004
Yawara!Anime • 1989
Princess MononokeMovie • 1997
Master KeatonAnime • 1998
Warriors of the WindMovie • 1984
AkiraMovie • 1988
Castle in the SkyMovie • 1986
The Boy and the HeronMovie • 2023
Sherlock HoundAnime • 1984
Whisper of the HeartMovie • 1995
Pom PokoMovie • 1994
From Up on Poppy HillMovie • 2011
When Marnie Was ThereMovie • 2014
The Wind RisesMovie • 2013
Keigo Higashino MysteriesSeries • 2012
BelleMovie • 2021
The Boy and the BeastMovie • 2015
Angel's EggMovie • 1985
Lupin the Third: The Legend of the Gold of BabylonMovie • 1985
MetropolisMovie • 2001
Okko's InnMovie • 2018
Nasu: Summer in AndalusiaMovie • 2003
Gauche the CellistMovie • 1982