Hiroyuki Yamaga
Hiroyuki Yamaga is a Japanese anime director and producer, and a founding member of the animation studio Gainax. He is best known for directing the film Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise (1987) at age 24, directing Mahoromatic (2001), Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi (2002), and an episode of Gurren Lagann (2007). Yamaga also wrote the screenplay for Gundam 0080 (1989).
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- Name
- Hiroyuki Yamaga
- Born
- 23 March 1962
- Birthplace
- Niigata, Niigata, Japan
- Occupation
- Anime director, producer
- Nationality
- Japan
- Education
- Osaka University of Arts
- Languages
- Japanese
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Hiroyuki Yamaga is a Japanese anime director and producer, and a founding member of the animation studio Gainax. He is best known for directing the film Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise (1987) at age 24, directing Mahoromatic (2001), Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi (2002), and an episode of Gurren Lagann (2007). Yamaga also wrote the screenplay for Gundam 0080 (1989).
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Hiroyuki Yamaga (born 1962) is a Japanese director and screenwriter. The director was born in Niigata.
Hiroyuki Yamaga studied at Osaka University of Arts. The director worked in Japan. Languages used include Japanese.
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He is portrayed by actor Tsuyoshi Muro in the 2014 TV Drama Aoi Honō based on the autobiographical manga by his fellow Osaka University of Arts alumnus Kazuhiko Shimamoto. Yamaga himself cameos in Episode 7 of the series, playing the owner of a restaurant where his fictional counterpart faints.
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• Name — Hiroyuki Yamaga • Born — 23 March 1962 • Birthplace — Niigata, Niigata, Japan • Occupation — Anime director, producer
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• Year — Film — Director — Writer — Producer — Notes • 1981 — Daicon III — Yes — Yes — Short, Opening animation • 1983 — Daicon IV — Yes — Yes — Short, Opening animation • 1987 — Wings of Honneamise — Yes — Yes • 1988 — Gunbuster — Yes — Mini-Series • 1989 — Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket — Yes — Series • 1989 — Komatsu Sakyo Anime Gekijo — Yes • 1991 — Otaku no Video — Yes — Mini-series • 1995 — Neon Genesis Evangelion — Series • 1997 — Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion • 2000 — FLCL — Mini-Series • 2001 — Mahoromatic — Yes — Yes — Series • 2002 — Petite Princess Yucie — Yes — Series • 2002 — Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi — Yes — Yes — Series • 2004 — This Ugly Yet Beautiful World — Yes — Series • 2005 — He Is My Master — Series • 2006 — Gunbuster: The Movie — Yes • 2007 — Gurren Lagann — Series • 2008 — Corpse Princess: Aka/Kuro — Yes • 2011 — The Mystic Archives of Dantalian — Yes — Screenplay • 2016 — Omoi no Kakera — Short
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Hiroyuki Yamaga is recorded with the occupation film director. Recorded as director and screenwriter.
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1962
Hiroyuki Yamaga was born on 1 January 1962.
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