Kenji Kamiyama Explained

Kenji Kamiyama
Native Name:	神山 健治
Native Name Lang:	ja
Birth Date:	20 March 1966
Birth Place:	Saitama Prefecture, Japan^[1]
Occupation:	Anime television and film director, artist and screenwriter

is a Japanese anime director.

Career

Kamiyama has worked regularly with the anime studio and production enterprise Production I.G, producing works including Jin-Roh, Patlabor, , and directing the anime television series, which was followed on into a second season, and a TV movie, .

After working as a background artist for productions such as Akira and Kiki's Delivery Service, Kamiyama joined Team Oshii at Production I.G, contributing the screenplay of Blood: The Last Vampire and working as an animation director for Jin-Roh. In 2002, Kamiyama made his directorial debut with MiniPato, followed by Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG. In 2007, after almost six years of working on the Stand Alone Complex world, he directed the TV series Guardian of the Sacred Spirit and Eden of the East.

Kamiyama and Shinji Aramaki directed , an anime for Adult Swim and Crunchyroll, which was released in 2021 and 2022.^{[2] [3] [4]}

On August 2, 2021, it was announced that Kamiyama, both director and writer of the feature-length anime work, Eien no 831 (The Eternal 831) which was broadcast in January 2022 on Wowow.^[5]

Filmography

• DuckTales (1987), backgrounds
• Patlabor (1988–1989), backgrounds
• Burn Up! (1991), art director
• Hakkenden: Legend of the Dog Warriors (1990–1991, 1993–1995), art director
• Roujin Z (1991), assistant art director
• Genocyber (1994), art director
• Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (1998), unit director
• (1999–2000), scripts for episodes 3, 10 and 21
• Medabots (1999–2000), storyboards for episodes 19, 34, 41, 48 and episode director for 34, 41, 48
• Popolocrois Story II (2000), storyboards
• (2000), screenplay, planning assistance
• Mini Pato (2002), director
• (2002–2003), director, series composition, script, storyboard, chief writer
• (2004–2005), director, series composition, script, storyboard, chief writer
• (2006), director, script, storyboard
• (2007), segment director
• (2007), director, script
• Eden of the East (2009), director, series composition, script, storyboard, chief writer
• Eden of the East: Air Communication (2009), director, screenplay
• Eden of the East: The King of Eden (2009), director, screenplay
• Eden of the East: Paradise Lost (2010), director, screenplay
• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society 3D (2011), director, script, storyboard
• (2012), director, script
• Mou Hitotsu no Mirai o. (2014), director
• Cyborg 009 Call of Justice (2016), chief director
• Napping Princess (2017), director, screenplay
• Ultraman (2019–2023), co-director with Shinji Aramaki
• (2020–2022), co-director with Shinji Aramaki^[6]
• (2021) ("The Ninth Jedi")
• (2021–2022), co-director with Shinji Aramaki
• Eien no 831 (2022), director^[5]
• (2024), director^[7]

External links

• Interview with Kenji Kamiyama

Notes and References

1. Web site: 神山監督、2020年の日本を予測する!!. 2017-07-21.
2. Otterson . Joe . November 29, 2018 . Blade Runner Anime Series . . November 29, 2018 .
3. News: Gurwin . Gabe . November 29, 2018 . BLADE RUNNER ANIME SERIES COMING TO CARTOON NETWORK, CRUNCHYROLL . . November 29, 2018 .
4. News: Yoo . Noah . November 29, 2018 . Adult Swim Announces New "Blade Runner" Anime Series . . November 29, 2018.
5. Web site: Loo. Egan. Kenji Kamiyama's Original Anime Feature Eien no 831 to Premiere Next January. August 3, 2021. August 3, 2021. Anime News Network. en.
6. Web site: Pineda. Rafael Antonio. New Ghost in the Shell Anime Will Have 2 Seasons. Anime News Network. August 2, 2018. November 29, 2018.
7. Web site: Pineda. Rafael Antonio. Kenji Kamiyama's The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim Film Opens in April 2024. Anime News Network. February 14, 2022. February 14, 2022.