| Kenji Kamiyama | |
| Native Name: | 神山 健治 |
| Native Name Lang: | ja |
| Birth Date: | 20 March 1966 |
| Birth Place: | Saitama Prefecture, Japan[1] |
| Occupation: | Artist, writer, director, and author |
is a Japanese artist, writer, director, and author.
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 would act as both director and writer of the feature-length anime work, Eien no 831 . The movie was broadcast in January 2022 on Wowow.[5]
| Year | Title | Role | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | DuckTales | backgrounds | ||
| 1988–1989 | Patlabor | |||
| 1990–1991 | The Hakkenden | art director | ||
| 1991 | Burn Up! | |||
| 1993–1995 | The Hakkenden: A New Saga (1993–1995) | |||
| 1994 | Genocyber | |||
| 1999–2000 | scripts for episodes 3, 10 and 21 | |||
| Medabots | storyboards for episodes 19, 34, 41, 48 and episode director for 34, 41, 48 | |||
| 2002 | Mini Pato | director | ||
| 2002–2003 | director, series composition, script, storyboard, chief writer | |||
| 2004–2005 | ||||
| 2007 | director, script | |||
| 2009 | Eden of the East | director, series composition, script, storyboard, chief writer | ||
| 2014 | Mou Hitotsu no Mirai O. | director | ||
| 2019–2023 | Ultraman | co-director with Shinji Aramaki | ||
| 2020–2022 | director | [6] | ||
| 2021 | director, script short The Ninth Jedi | |||
| 2021–2022 | director |
| Year | Title | Role | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Roujin Z | assistant art director | |
| 1998 | Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade | unit director | |
| 2000 | screenplay, planning assistance | ||
| 2006 | director, script, storyboard | ||
| 2007 | segment director "Dandelion: Mabu of the Dining Hall" | ||
| 2009 | Eden of the East: The King of Eden | director, screenplay | |
| 2010 | Eden of the East: Paradise Lost | ||
| 2012 | director, script | ||
| 2016 | Cyborg 009: Call of Justice | chief director | |
| 2017 | Napping Princess | director, screenplay | |
| 2022 | Eien no 831 | director | |
| 2023 | Engage Wars: Heartful Force | ||
| 2024 | [7] |