Hiroshi Ikeda (Director)
Hiroshi Ikeda ( jap. 池田宏 , Ikeda Hiroshi * 1934 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese anime - director , who at Animation Toei worked. He was also the department head of the Japanese video game company Nintendo .
Life
Hiroshi Ikeda was employed by Toei at the same time as the well-known Japanese animator Yōichi Kotabe . Together they worked on a number of projects such as the animated film Soratobu Yūreisen (1969), which Ikeda was director and for which Kotabe was involved as animation director.
Ikeda later worked for Nintendo. He was the first head of the development department Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development (then R & D4), founded around 1984 , whose chief producer, Shigeru Miyamoto , was the developer of games like Donkey Kong . Ikeda put together a small team for Miyamoto, with whom he developed the first games, including successful titles such as Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda . Ikeda also hired his former colleague Kotabe, who was henceforth an illustrator at R & D4. Miyamoto later took over the management of the department and Ikeda, who worked behind the scenes at Nintendo, left the company.
Ikeda was also president of the Mario Co. joint venture company co-founded by Nintendo in 1991 and of the Manegi studio, founded in 1998, a company founded by Nintendo and Hudson Soft .
Filmography
- 1963: Mogura no Motoro ( も ぐ ら の モ ト ロ )
- 1963: Okami Shōnen Ken ( 狼 少年 ケ ン )
- 1965–1999: Hustle Punch ( ハ ッ ス ル パ ン チ ), also screenplay
- 1966–1968: Mahō Tsukai Sally ( 魔法 使 い サ リ ー )
- 1967: The King Kong Show
- Soratobu Yūreisen (空 飛 ぶ ゆ う れ い 船 ; 1969), director, screenplay
- Himitsu no Akko-chan (ひ み つ の ア ッ コ ち ゃ ん ; 1969–1970), episode director
- Treasure Island ( Dōbutsu Takarajima; ど う ぶ つ 宝島 ; 1971), episode director, screenplay
- Sarutobi Etchan (1971–1972), episode director
- Mahō Tsukai Chappy (1972), episode director
Web links
- Hiroshi Ikeda in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy: The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917, 2006, ISBN 1-933330-10-4 , p. 296
- ↑ a b Iwata Asks: Nintendo DSi; Volume 8: Yoichi Kotabe; 3. An Invitation from Nintendo. In: Nintendo. Retrieved July 7, 2014 .
- ↑ Inside Nintendo 10: The History of EAD (1). In: Nintendo-Online. March 23, 2013, accessed July 7, 2014 .
- ^ Developer's Profile. In: inside-games.jp. IRI Commerce and Technology, Inc., October 23, 2003, archived from the original on December 15, 2008 ; Retrieved December 26, 2014 (Japanese).
- ↑ Yutaka Ohbuchi: Nintendo and Hudson Join Forces. In: GameSpot. June 16, 1998, accessed July 7, 2014 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ikeda, Hiroshi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 池田 宏 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | japanese anime director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tokyo prefecture |