Shuhei Morita
Shūhei Morita; born June 22, 1978) is a Japanese anime filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer. He is known for directing the critically successful 2013 film Possessions for which Morita was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, as well as the 2014 anime series Tokyo Ghoul for its first and second seasons.
Shuhei Morita
- Name
- Shūhei Morita
- Born
- 22 June 1978
- Birthplace
- Yamatotakada, Nara, Japan
- Occupation
- Film director, screenwriter
- Nationality
- Japan.
- Education
- Kyoto University of the Arts and Design.
- Languages
- Japanese.
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Shūhei Morita; born June 22, 1978) is a Japanese anime filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer. He is known for directing the critically successful 2013 film Possessions for which Morita was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, as well as the 2014 anime series Tokyo Ghoul for its first and second seasons.
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Shuhei Morita (born 1978) is an animator, director and screenwriter, of Japanese nationality. The animator was born in Yamatotakada. Shuhei Morita was educated at Kyoto University of the Arts and Design. Languages used include Japanese.
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• Name — Shūhei Morita • Born — 22 June 1978 • Birthplace — Yamatotakada, Nara, Japan • Occupation — Film director, screenwriter
TV productions
TV productions
• Valvrave the Liberator (2013; Storyboard (Ep. 5) • Gatchaman Crowds (2013; CGI Director) • Tokyo Ghoul (2014; Director) • Tokyo Ghoul √A (2015; Director)
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OVA
• Freedom (2006; Director, CG, Storyboard (Ep. 4) • Coicent (2010, Director, Script) • Votoms Finder (2010; CG supervision) • Chō Kidō Gaiku KASHIWA-NO-HA (2015; Director, Supervisor manga adaptation)
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Shuhei Morita is recorded with the occupation film director. Recorded as animator, screenwriter and director.
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1978
Shuhei Morita was born on 22 June 1978.
Films
• Kakurenbo: Hide & Seek (2005; Director, Scenario, Storyboard, Original story, Producer, CG, Editing) • A Farewell to Arms (2013; Unit Director) • Possessions (2013, Director, Screenplay) • Edge of Time (2025; Director, segment "Tsuru no Mai")
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