HOSODA Mamoru
Twitter Hosoda initially felt inspired to take up animation as a career after seeing The Castle of Cagliostro, the first film directed by Hayao Miyazaki. He majored in oil painting at the Kanazawa College of Art in Ishikawa Prefecture. After graduation, Hosoda was able to land an animation job at Toei Animation, after submitting a short film that he had animated in his spare time. He initially applied at Studio Ghibli; though he did not get the job, he received a rejection letter of praise from Hayao Miyazaki himself. During his time at Toei, Hosoda worked his way up, garnering public attention in the early 2000s with the first two films in the Digimon series. It was his first co-directed film, Digimon: The Movie, which attracted the eye of Ghibli head producer Toshio Suzuki. Studio Ghibli announced that Hosoda was to direct the film Howl's Moving Castle in September 2001. This was scheduled for a summer 2003 release. However, production on the film became strained due to creative differences. According to Hosoda, he "was told to make the movie similar to how Miyazaki would have made it, but he wanted to make his own film the way he wanted to make it". In the end, Hosoda left in the summer of 2002 during the early production stages, after failing to come up with a concept acceptable to Studio Ghibli bosses. Proceeding his departure from Ghibli, Hosoda returned to Toei and…
HOSODA Mamoru is credited as an author on 4 readable works in this catalogue, with publication years from 2009 to 2015.
Common themes in this collection include Drama, Male Protagonist, Romance, Seinen, Action, Artificial Intelligence.
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