Kōichi Mashimo
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| Kōichi Mashimo | |
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 Kōichi Mashimo at Anime Convention 2002
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| Born | 1952-06-21 Tokyo, Japan |
| Occupation | Anime director |
Kōichi Mashimo (真下 耕一 Mashimo Kōichi?, sometimes credited as Kouchi Mashimo or Kouichi Mashimo) is a well known Japanese anime director and the founder of the animation studio Bee Train. Since the creation of the studio, Mashimo directed or otherwise participated in (nearly) all its works, for example, as a member of art or sound department.
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[edit] Biography
Kōichi Mashimo was born on 1952-06-21 in Tokyo, Japan and from his early years showed interest in photography, admittedly, under the influence of his father. Mashimo studied jurisprudence in the Sophia University and during his fourth university year, he participated in the making of several television ads. However, this was a rather disappointing experience, and on 1975-11-06, he applied for a position of Hiroshi Sasagawa's assistant director in Tatsunoko Production. The first anime series he worked on was Time Bokan (1975-76).
In the mid-80s, while still working for Tatsunoko, Mashimo survived a severe alpine skiing accident. During his stay in an intensive care unit, he came up with an idea of a "hospital for animators", an animation studio whose primary goal would be fostering and self-actualization of talented artists rather than commercial success and money. Some time after that, he founded a small freelance studio called Mashimo Jimusho that was mainly producing in-between animation for larger companies. In 1997, Mashimo presented his studio-as-hospital concept to Mitsuhisa Ishikawa, the president of Production I.G, who was so impressed with it that he immediately agreed to sponsor Mashimo. The new subsidiary has become known as Bee Train and in February 2006, it ended its relationship with I.G and became independent.
[edit] Filmography
| Year | Anime | Job |
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| 1970s | ||
| 1978 | Kagaku Ninja-Tai Gatchaman II | director |
| 1979 | Kagaku Ninja-Tai Gatchaman F | director |
| 1980s | ||
| 1985 | Night on the Galactic Railroad | script |
| 1986 | Ai City | director |
| 1987 | Dirty Pair: Project Eden | director, general superintendent |
| 1988 | F | director, script |
| Dominion: Tank Police | director, script | |
| 1989 | Dragon Warrior | script |
| 1990s | ||
| 1990 | Robin Hood no Daiboken | director |
| 1992 | The Weathering Continent | director, script |
| 1993 | Irresponsible Captain Tylor | director |
| 1996 | Sorcerer Hunters | director |
| 1997 | Eat-Man | director |
| 1998 | Xenogears | animation movie producer |
| 1999 | PoPoLoCrois | director, script |
| Wild ARMS: Twilight Venom | director, planning | |
| 2000s | ||
| 2001 | Noir | director, storyboard, sound director |
| 2002 | .hack//SIGN | director, script, sound director |
| .hack OVAs: .hack//Intermezzo, .hack//Unison, .hack//GIFT | director | |
| .hack//Liminality | director, soundtrack supervision | |
| 2003 | Avenger | director |
| .hack//Legend of the Twilight | director, general superintendent | |
| Immortal Grand Prix | director, script | |
| 2004 | Madlax | director, script |
| Ginyuu Mokushiroku Meine Liebe | director, script | |
| 2005 | Tsubasa Chronicle (first season) | director |
| 2006 | Ginyuu Mokushiroku Meine Liebe wieder | director |
| .hack//Roots | director, supervision, soundtrack supervision, consulting producer | |
| Spider Riders | director, supervision | |
| Tsubasa Chronicle (second season) | director (co-director: Hiroshi Morioka) | |
| 2007 | El Cazador de la Bruja | director |
[edit] Trivia
- Mashimo dislikes the term "background music", so the music often plays just as important a role in his works as animation and voice acting do.
- He often collaborates with Yuki Kajiura and the first season of Tsubasa Chronicle became their eighth project together.
- Mashimo once remarked that he'd like to have personally met the photographers Richard Avedon, Jeanloup Sieff, and Helmut Newton and film directors John Ford and Alfred Hitchcock. However, by the time the interview has been published, four of these were already dead and Avedon passed away later that year.
- Mashimo is particularly fond of the French movie Les Aventuriers (1967, IMDB) and has even named a character in Madlax after the protagonist of that film.[1]
- The OVA Murder Princess (March 2007) will be the first anime produced by Bee Train which Mashimo doesn't have anything to do with.[2]
[edit] References
- Wong, A. (March 2005). "Inside Bee Train". Newtype USA: 8-15.
- ^ Madlax Volume 1: Connections, (2004), Kōichi Mashimo, notes from: insert leaflet Staff Talk #1 (Shigeru Kitayama). ADV Films, Houston, Texas: DMAD/001, (2005).
- ^ Murder Princess. Anime News Network. Retrieved on January 24, 2007.
[edit] External links
- Kōichi Mashimo at the Anime News Network
- Kōichi Mashimo at the Bee Train Fan Wiki
- Kôichi Mashimo at the Internet Movie Database
