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Hiroyuki Morita

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Years active
  
1987-present

Name
  
Hiroyuki Morita

Role
  
Animator


Born
  
June 26, 1964 (age 59) (
1964-06-26
)
Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Occupation
  
Animator, Storyboard artist and Anime director

Movies
  
The Cat Returns, Episode of Luffy: Adventure on Hand Island

Similar People
  
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Hiroyuki Morita (森田 宏幸, Morita Hiroyuki, born June 26, 1964 in Fukuoka, Japan) is a Japanese animator and director. He has worked as an animator on projects such as Akira and Lupin III. He is best known for working as director on the Studio Ghibli film The Cat Returns as well as doing key animation for the Studio Ghibli production My Neighbors the Yamadas and in-between animation for Kiki's Delivery Service. He was also a sequence director and storyboard artist on Tenchi Forever!.

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Morita also was the director of the anime Bokurano, which was based on a manga by Mohiro Kitoh.

Animator

  • Akira (1988) - assistant
  • Lupin III: Bye Bye Liberty Crisis (1989) - key animator
  • Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) - in between animator
  • Rōdosu-tō Senki (1990) - animator
  • Roujin Z (1991) - key animator
  • Tobé! Kujira no Peek (1991) - key animator
  • Hashire Melos! (1992) - key animator
  • Junkers Come Here (1994) - key animator
  • Gunsmith Cats (1995) - animator
  • Memories (1995) - animator
  • Tenchi the Movie: Tenchi Muyo in Love (1996) - animator, design cooperation
  • Spriggan (1998) - key animator
  • Perfect Blue (1998) - animator
  • Tenchi Forever! (1999) - key animator
  • My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999) - animator
  • Texhnolyze (2003) - key animator
  • Koro's Big Day Out (2002) - key animator
  • Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004) - key animator
  • Tales from Earthsea (2006) - key animator
  • Afro Samurai: Resurrection (2009) - key animator
  • Doraemon: Nobita's Great Battle of the Mermaid King (2010) - key animator
  • Doraemon: Nobita and the New Steel Troops: ~Angel Wings~ (2011) - key animator
  • Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos (2011) - key animator

    • Director

  • Tenchi Forever! (1999) - unit director
  • The Cat Returns (2002)
  • Bokurano: Ours (2007)

    • References

    Hiroyuki Morita Wikipedia
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