Kitaro KOSAKA

Kitaro KOSAKA, born Kanagawa Prefecture in 1962, is a Japanese animator and film director. He started his career in 1979 at Oh! Production. After 1986, he worked on numerous projects as a key and supervising animation director for the noted animation studio Studio Ghibli. There, he often collaborated with the famed director Hayao MIYAZAKI, whose work he admires immensely. In 2003, he directed the cycling anime film NASU – SUMMER IN ANDALUSIA. The film soon went on to become the first Japanese anime film ever to be selected for the Cannes Film Festival.