is a Japanese

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and

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director. He is also a founding member of the Japan Animation Creators Association (JAniCA) labor group. Nakamura's 2002 film ''

A Tree of Palme is a 2002 Japanese anime film, written and directed by Takashi Nakamura. It was an official selection of the 2002 Berlin Film Festival. Story ''A Tree of Palme'' can be seen as a distant allusion of the 1883 novel ''The Adventures of Pinocchi ...

'' was an official selection of the

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. He also worked on '' Golden Warrior Gold Lightan'', with his first student

Koji Morimoto Koji, Kōji, Kohji or Kouji may refer to: *Kōji (given name), a masculine Japanese given name *Kōji (Heian period) (康治), Japanese era, 1142–1144 *Kōji (Muromachi period) (弘治), Japanese era, 1555–1558 *Koji orange, a Japanese citrus ...

Works

* ''

Yatterman is a Japanese anime television series broadcast from January 1, 1977 to January 27, 1979, comprising 108 episodes. It is the second and longest show in the ''Time Bokan'' series by Tatsunoko Productions. The series succeeded ''Time Bokan'' a ...

'' (1977): animation director and key animation * '' Ōgon Senshi Gold Lightan'' (1981): animation director and key animation * ''

Genma Taisen is a Japanese science fiction manga and novel franchise that began in 1967. It was a collaboration in ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' by science fiction writer Kazumasa Hirai and manga artist Shotaro Ishinomori. It was adapted into a 1983 ...

'' (1983): key animation * ''

Mirai Keisatsu Urashiman is a Japanese manga series written by Hirohisa Soda, illustrated by Noboru Akashi and Haruka Inui and published by Akita Shoten in Weekly Shonen Champion. It was adapted into an anime television series produced by Tatsunoko Production that ...

'' (1983): character designs, animation director, key animation, storyboards * '' Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind'' (1984): key animation * '' Meikyū Monogatari'' (1987): animation director * ''

Robot Carnival is a Japanese anthology original video animation (OVA) and anime film released in 1987. The film consists of nine shorts by different well-known directors, many of whom started out as animators with little to no directing experience. Each has ...

'' (1987): director, script, character designs, animation * '' AKIRA'' (1988): animation director, character designs * '' Peter Pan no Bōken'' (1989): character designs, scene artist, storyboards * ''

Catnapped! , known outside Japan as ''Catnapped!'', is a 1995 Japanese anime fantasy comedy film, directed, created and written by Takashi Nakamura, who was also its character designer. The animation was produced by Triangle Staff. The theme song of the film ...

'' (1995): director, original creator, script, character design, animation director * ''

Sonic the Hedgehog (OVA) or ''Sonic the Hedgehog the Movie'', is a 1996 Japanese two-part original video animation (OVA) based on the ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' video games by Sega. Produced by Pierrot and directed by Kazutaka Ikegami, the first episode was released in J ...

'' (1996): colour background painter * ''

'' (2002): director, original creator, script * ''

Tetsujin 28-go , known as simply ''Tetsujin 28'' in international releases, is a 1956 manga written and illustrated by Mitsuteru Yokoyama, who would also create '' Giant Robo''. The series centers on the adventures of a young boy named Shotaro Kaneda, ...

'' (2004): character designs and storyboards * ''

Fantastic Children is a Japanese anime television series created by Takashi Nakamura and produced by Nippon Animation. It first aired in Japan across TV Tokyo between October 4, 2004 and March 28, 2005, totaling 26 episodes. There was an extended ending specia ...

'' (2004): director, original creator, script, character designs * ''

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'' (2015): director (with

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) * '' Ballmastrz: Rubicon'' (2023): animation director

Books

* ''Yume no Naka e'' (夢の中へ). Tokuma Motion Book , 1985. * ''Catnapped! Storyboard'' (とつぜん!ネコの国バニパルウィット絵コンテ). Triangle Staff. * ''Twilight'' (TWILIGHT). Anime Style , 2006. * ''King Abyss'' (キングアビス). Jive , 2009. * ''King Abyss: Adama hen'' (キングアビスアダマ篇). PIE International , 2014. Vol.1: Vol.2:

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