Kenji Kodama
Kenji Kodama is a Japanese anime director, and storyboard artist. He is best known for being one of the main directors on the long-running anime Case Closed, as well as the City Hunter series and Lupin III Part III. Kodama is also a member of the Japanese Animation Creators Association.
Kenji Kodama

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- Name
- Kenji Kodama
- Born
- 13 December 1949
- Birthplace
- Hokkaido, Japan
- Occupation
- Anime director
- Known for
- Case Closed City Hunter Lupin III Part III
- Spouse
- Sachiko Kamimura
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
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• Name — Kenji Kodama • Native Name — こだま 兼嗣 • Born — 13 December 1949 • Birthplace — Hokkaido, Japan • Other Names — Seiji Miyamoto • Occupation — Anime director • Known for — Case Closed City Hunter Lupin III Part III • Spouse — Sachiko Kamimura
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Kenji Kodama (born 13 December 1949) is documented in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Kenji Kodama was born on 13 December 1949.
Background
Background
Kodama is married to Sachiko Kamimura, a prominent animator in the same field. Kodama has also worked as a storyboard artist in the 1970s and 1980s under the name Seiji Miyamoto.
Anime
Anime
List of production work in anime • Year — Title — Crew role — Notes — Source • –85 — Lupin III Part III — Production, Storyboards • –85 — Cat's Eye — Chief director, director, storyboard — 2nd TV series • Robotan — Production — 2nd TV series • –87 — Bug tte Honey — Director, Continuity • –88 — City Hunter — Chief director, director, storyboards • City Hunter 2 — Chief director, director, storyboards • City Hunter:.357 Magnum — Director — film • –90 — City Hunter 3 — Director • The — Director — 1990 film • City Hunter: Bay City Wars — Director — OVA • City Hunter: Million Dollar Conspiracy — Director — OVA • Reporter Blues — Director • –92 — I and Myself: The Two Lottes — Director • –93 — My Patrasche — Director • City Hunter: The Secret Service — Director, Screenplay — TV special • –present — Case Closed — Director, General Director • Case Closed: The Time Bombed Skyscraper — Director, Screenplay — film • Case Closed: The Fourteenth Target — Director — film • Case Closed: The Last Wizard of the Century — Director — film • Case Closed: Captured in Her Eyes — Director — film • Case Closed: Countdown to Heaven — Director — film • Case Closed: The Phantom of Baker Street — Director — film • Case Closed: Crossroad in the Ancient Capital — Director — film • Kekkaishi — Director • Tales of the Abyss — Director — Also OVA fan disc • Black Jack — Storyboard • Kamichu! — Storyboard
Identity
Identity
Kenji Kodama is recorded as film director, animator and character designer.

Photograph taken during the 11th edition of Japan Expo in 2010 organised at the 'Parc de expositions of Villepinte near Paris in France.
Esby (talk) 23:08, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
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