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Mamoru Hosoda (細田 守, Hosoda Mamoru, born September 19, 1967) is a Japanese film director and animator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Animated Feature Film at the 91st Academy Awards for his eighth film Mirai.[1]

Mamoru Hosoda
Hosoda in 2016
Born	(1967-09-19) September 19, 1967 (age 54) Kamiichi, Toyama, Japan
Occupation	Animation director
Years active	1989–present
Known for	Digimon Adventure Digimon Adventure: Our War Game! The Girl Who Leapt Through Time Summer Wars Wolf Children The Boy and the Beast Mirai Belle

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Life and career

Early life and initial work at Toei Animation

Hosoda was born in Kamiichi, Nakaniikawa District, Toyama, Japan. His father worked as a railway engineer, and his mother was a tailor.[2] Hosoda initially felt inspired to take up animation as a career after seeing The Castle of Cagliostro, the first film directed by Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli fame.[3] He majored in oil painting at the Kanazawa College of Art in Ishikawa Prefecture.[4]

After graduation, Hosoda was able to land an animation job at Toei Animation, after submitting a short film that he had animated in his spare time.[2] He initially applied at Studio Ghibli; though he did not get the job, he received a rejection letter of praise from Hayao Miyazaki himself.[3][5]

During his time at Toei, Hosoda worked his way up, garnering public attention in the early 2000s with the first two films in the Digimon Adventure series. Shortly after the release of Our War Game!, Hosoda attracted the eye of Ghibli head producer Toshio Suzuki.[2]

Studio Ghibli

Studio Ghibli announced that Hosoda was to direct the film Howl's Moving Castle in September 2001.[6] This was scheduled for a summer 2003 release.[7] However, production on the film became strained due to creative differences. According to Hosoda, he "was told to make [the movie] similar to how Miyazaki would have made it, but [he] wanted to make [his] own film the way [he] wanted to make it".[8] In the end, Hosoda left in the summer of 2002[9] during the early production stages, after failing to come up with a concept acceptable to Studio Ghibli bosses.[10]

Return to Toei, and departure to Madhouse

Proceeding his departure from Ghibli, Hosoda returned to Toei and worked on a few animations in collaboration with artist Takashi Murakami, such as the commercial Superflat Monogram for Louis Vuitton[2][11] and directed a One Piece feature film, One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island.

In 2004, Mamoru Hosada met Yuichiro Saito, with whom he worked together in the opening of Shinichiro Watanabe’s Samurai Champloo (2004). That experience would lead to future collaborations between them.[12]

During this time, he directed an episode of Ojamajo Doremi, which was inspired by his turbulent time at Ghibli.[13] This episode led to him being hired at the animation studio Madhouse,[13] which he worked at from 2005 to 2011.

At Madhouse, Hosoda earned critical acclaim with his directing efforts, including 2006's The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (which won Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year in 2007[14]) and 2009's Summer Wars (which won the same award in 2010).[15]

Studio Chizu

Hosoda left Madhouse in 2011 to establish his own animation studio, Studio Chizu, with Yuichiro Saito who produced The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Summer Wars. As of November 2021, Studio Chizu has released four films directed by Hosoda: 2012's Wolf Children, 2015's The Boy and the Beast, 2018's Mirai[16][17] and 2021's Belle.[18] Mirai was nominated for Best Animated Feature for the 2019 Oscars.[19]

Filmography

Film

No.	Title	Animation studio	Distributor	Release date	Note	Ref(s)
Feature films
1	One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island	Toei Animation	Toei Company	March 5, 2005	Written by Masahiro Ito.
2	The Girl Who Leapt Through Time	Madhouse	Kadokawa Herald Pictures	July 15, 2006	Written by Satoko Okudera.
3	Summer Wars		Warner Bros. Japan	August 1, 2009
4	Wolf Children	Studio Chizu	Toho	July 21, 2012
5	The Boy and the Beast			July 11, 2015	Written by Mamoru Hosoda.
6	Mirai			July 20, 2018		[20][21][22]
7	Belle			July 16, 2021		[23][24]
Short films
1	Digimon Adventure: Episode 0	Toei Animation	Toei Company	March 6, 1999	Released as part of the Spring 1999 Toei Animation Fair, alongside Yu-Gi-Oh! and Doctor Slump: Arale's Surprise Burn. Written by Reiko Yoshida.
2	GeGeGe no Kitarō: Kitarō's Ghost Train			March 20, 1999	A short 3D film released at various events including at Hanayashiki, and re-released as part of the Toei 3D Animation Fair in October 2009.	[25]
3	Digimon Adventure: Our War Game!			March 4, 2000	Released as part of the Toei Animation Fair (being screened alongside One Piece: The Movie). Written by Reiko Yoshida.
4	Digimon Adventure 3D: Digimon Grand Prix!			July 20, 2000	Originally screened at the Time Machine of Dreams theme park attraction at Sanrio Puroland, and re-released as part of the Toei 3D Animation Fair in October 2009. Written by Atsushi Maekawa.
5	Superflat Monogram		N/A	2003	Short film with Takashi Murakami.

Television

• Digimon Adventure (episode 21, 1999)
• Ojamajo Doremi Dokkān (episode 40, 49)
• One Piece (episode 199)
• Ashita no Nadja (opening, ending, episodes 5, 12, 26)
• Samurai Champloo (opening under the pseudonym Katsuyo Hashimoto[26])

As key animator

• Ashita no Nadja (episode 26)
• Crying Freeman
• Dragon Ball: The Path to Power
• Dragon Ball Z (episode 173)
• Dragon Ball Z: Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan
• Dragon Ball Z: Broly – Second Coming
• Galaxy Express 999 ~Eternal Fantasy~
• GeGeGe no Kitarō (1996 series, Episode 94, 105, 113)
  • GeGeGe no Kitarō: Dai-Kaijū (Japanese, 1996 film)
• Slam Dunk (episodes 29, 70)
• Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (episode 7)
• Sailor Moon Super S: The Movie
• Yu Yu Hakusho The Movie: Poltergeist Report

References

External links

• Mamoru Hosoda at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Mamoru Hosoda at IMDb

На других языках

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[ru] Хосода, Мамору

Мамору Хосода (яп. 細田 守 Хосода Мамору, род. 19 сентября 1967 года, Камиити, уезд Наканиикава, префектура Тояма, Япония) — японский режиссёр и сценарист анимационных фильмов. Лауреат международных и национальных фестивалей.

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