Name
Isao Takahata
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1935-10-29
Deathday
2018-04-05 (83 years old)
Place of Birth
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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Woody, Buzz, and the rest of Andy's toys haven't been played with in years. With Andy abou...
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A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new communi...
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After a global war, the seaside kingdom known as the Valley of the Wind remains one of the...
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In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her li...
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Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl g...
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The Yamadas are a typical middle class Japanese family in urban Tokyo and this film shows ...
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Cheerful Mimiko’s small family grows when she adopts a talking baby panda and his full-g...
- 2004 Yasuo Ōtsuka's Joy in Motion as Self
- 2010 Ghibli's Bookshelf as Self
- 2013 The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness as Self
- 2014 Isao Takahata and His Tale of The Princess Kaguya as Self
- 2000 Super TV: Frontline Information 15 Months of Exclusive Coverage! The Secret Behind "My Neighbors the Yamadas"
- 2011 Japanese Cinema: New Territories as Self
- 2018 NHK Image File: I Want To Meet This Person - Isao Takahata, Animation Film Director as Self (archive footage)
- 2023 2399 Days with Hayao Miyazaki & Studio Ghibli as Self
- 1999 The World, The Journey Of My Heart - Traveler: Animation Film Director Isao Takahata as Self
- 2024 Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron as Self (archive fotage)
- 2005 Hayao Miyazaki and the Ghibli Museum as Self
- 2003 Paul Grimault, image par image as Self
- 2005 Ghibli and The Miyazaki Mystery as Self - Interviewee
- 1998 How Ghibli Was Born as Self
- 2007 A Ghibli Artisan - Kazuo Oga Exhibition - The One Who Drew Totoro's Forest as Self
- 2026 The Story of Yanagawa Waterways as Self
- 1991 The Making of Only Yesterday as Self
- 2015 Hyohyo: Dear Mr. Yasuo Otsuka as Self
- 2002 The Cat Returns - Making of as Self
- 2011 Ghibli Landscapes - A Journey to Encounter Directors Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki's Starting Point as Self
- 2014 Ghibli Landscapes - Visit 'Japan' as Depicted by Isao Takahata as Self
- 2003 The Birth of Studio Ghibli
- 2025 Miyazaki, Spirit of Nature as Self (archive footage)
- 2025 Hotaru no Haka to Takahata Isao to 7-satsu no Nōto as Self (archive footage)
- 2019 10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki ( 4 episodes ) as Self
- 2004 Kulturplatz ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1985 NHK Educational TV Special ( 1 episode ) as Self
