Isao Takahata
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- October 29, 1935
- Died
- April 5, 2018 (aged 82)
- Birthplace
- Ujiyamada [now Ise], Mie, Japan
Biography
Isao Takahata (October 29, 1935 – April 5, 2018), co-founder of Studio Ghibli, was one of the most famous directors of Japanese animated films. Unlike most anime directors, he did not draw and never worked as an animator before becoming a director. For the first two decades of his career from the 1960s to the 1980s, Takahata worked primarily as director for anime television. In 1985 he and his long-time collaborative partner Hayao Miyazaki formed Studio Ghibli with Toshio Suzuki and Yasuyoshi Tokuma. From that point, his career transitioned into producing, directing, and writing films for Studio Ghibli. He is known for his five feature length anime films released under Ghibli, Grave of the Fireflies (1988), Only Yesterday (1991), Pom Poko (1994), My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999) and The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013).
Known For
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Filmography
The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
Movie · Director
Winter Days
Movie · Director
My Neighbors the Yamadas
Movie · Director
Pom Poko
Movie · Director
Heidi: Girl of the Alps: Heidi and Clara
Movie · Director
Heidi: Girl of the Alps: Mt. Alm
Movie · Director
Only Yesterday
Movie · Director
Anne of Green Gables: Road to Green Gables
Movie · Director
Grave of the Fireflies
Movie · Director
The Story of Yanagawa Waterways
Movie · Director
Gauche the Cellist
Movie · Director
Chie the Brat
Movie · Director
Chie the Brat
TV · Series Director · 64 eps
3000 Leagues in Search of Mother: The Movie
Movie · Director
Gegege no Kitaro: The All Seeing Eye
Movie · Co-Director
The Story of Heidi
Movie · Director
Anne of Green Gables
TV · Director · 49 eps
Future Boy Conan
TV · Director · 2 eps
Heidi in the City
Movie · Director
3000 Leagues in Search of Mother
TV · Director, Series Director · 52 eps
Heidi in the Mountains
Movie · Director
Heidi: Girl of the Alps
TV · Director · 52 eps
Panda! Go Panda!: Rainy Day Circus
Movie · Director
Panda! Go Panda!
Movie · Director
Panda! Go Panda!
Movie · Director
Lupin the 3rd
TV · Director · 23 eps
Horus: Prince of the Sun
Movie · Director
Spooky Kitaro
Movie · Co-Director
Wolf Boy Ken: Scared by a Ghost: The Greatest Operation in the Jungle
Movie · Director
The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon
Movie · Assistant Director
Duel of the Underworld
Movie · Assistant Director
Story of Iron
Movie · Assistant Director, Script Supervisor
The Orphan Brother
Movie · Assistant Director