Kazuo Oga
Kazuo Oga was born 29 February 1952, in Akita Prefecture, Japan is an art director and background artist for many Madhouse Studio and Studio Ghibli anime films. Oga has worked with many respected directors, such as Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, and Osamu Dezaki. He has also published two compilations of his art and directed a short animated film.
Kazuo Oga
- Born
- 1952 · Ōta.
- Nationality
- Japan
- Occupation
- art director · painter · animator · screenwriter · film director · draftsperson · artist
- Education
- Akita Prefectural Kakunodate High School
- Languages
- Japanese
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Kazuo Oga was born 29 February 1952, in Akita Prefecture, Japan is an art director and background artist for many Madhouse Studio and Studio Ghibli anime films. Oga has worked with many respected directors, such as Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, and Osamu Dezaki. He has also published two compilations of his art and directed a short animated film.
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Director
Director
• The Night of Taneyamagahara, 2006
Art director
Art director
• Unico, 1979 • Tomorrow's Joe 2, 1980 • Barefoot Gen, 1983 • Toki no Tabibito: Time Stranger, 1986 • Wicked City, 1987 • My Neighbor Totoro, 1988 • Girls in Summer Clothes, 1988 • Only Yesterday, 1991 • Heisei Tanuki Gassen Ponpoko, 1994 • Princess Mononoke, 1997 • The Tale of Princess Kaguya, 2013
Assistant background art director
Assistant background art director
• Treasure Island, 1978 • Space Adventure Cobra: The Movie, 1982
Background art
Background art
• Panda! Go, Panda! and the Rainy-Day Circus, 1973 • Adventures of Ganba, 1975 • Nobody's Boy: Remi, 1977 • Makoto-chan, 1980 • Harmagedon: Genma Wars, 1983 • Unico in the Island of Magic, 1983 • Lensman, 1984 • The Dagger of Kamui, 1985 • Barefoot Gen 2, 1986 • Hoero! Bun Bun, 1987 • Akuma no Hanayome: Ran no Kumikyoku, 1988 • Demon City Shinjuku, 1988 • Goku: Midnight Eye, 1989 • Kiki's Delivery Service, 1989 • Urusei Yatsura: Always My Darling, 1991 • Porco Rosso, 1992 • Ninja Scroll, 1993 • On Your Mark, 1995 • Whisper of the Heart, 1995 • Rurouni Kenshin: Ishin Shishi e no Chinkonka, 1997 • Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, 2000 • Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi, 2001 • InuYasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time, 2001 • The Cat Returns, 2002 • Fantastic Children, 2004 • Howl's Moving Castle, 2004 • The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, 2006 • Tales from Earthsea, 2006 • Highlander: The Search for Vengeance, 2007 • Gake no Ue no Ponyo, 2008 • Kawa no Hikari, 2009 • Summer Wars, 2009 • The Secret World of Arrietty, 2010 • A Letter to Momo, 2012 • Mary and the Witch's Flower, 2017 • The Boy and the Heron, 2023
Exhibition
Exhibition
The Museum of Contemporary Art, in Tokyo, Japan sponsored an exhibition called Kazuo Oga – The Man Who Drew Totoro's Forest from July 21, 2007, through September 30, 2007. A documentary about this exhibition Oga Kazuo Exhibition: Ghibli No Eshokunin – The One Who Painted Totoro's Forest was released on DVD and Blu-ray.
Art books
• Kazuo Oga Art Collection (Oga Kazuo Gashuu). Tokuma Shoten, 1996. • Kazuo Oga Art Collection II (Oga Kazuo Gashuu II). Tokuma Shoten, 2005.
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