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Hisaichi Ishii
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Name
Hisaichi Ishii
Role
Manga artist
Movies
My Neighbors the Yamadas
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Education
Kansai University (1975)
Hisaichi Ishii(いしい ひさいち or 石井 壽一,Ishii Hisaichi, September 2, 1951 in Tamano, Okayama Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known outside Japan for his manga series Nono-chan, which was made into the Studio Ghibli anime film My Neighbors the Yamadas. Topics covered by Ishii's manga include baseball (in his debut work), politics, economics, current events and topics, philosophy, and so on. He is known for his extreme caricatures of well-known celebrities and well known people, including Kōichi Tabuchi (a pro baseball pitcher in Japan), Kim Jong Il, and Tsuneo Watanabe (executive director of the Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings group, owner of the Yomiuri Shimbun).
Ishii graduated with a degree in sociology at Kansai University.