List of anime directors

This is a list of notable anime directors. Romanized names are written in Western order (given names before family names), whereas kanji names are written in Japanese order (family names before given names).

Individuals

A

• Masashi Ando (安藤 雅司)^[1]
• Hideaki Anno (庵野 秀明)^[2]
• Ei Aoki (あおき えい)^[3]
• Morio Asaka (浅香 守生)

D

• Osamu Dezaki (出﨑 統)^[4]

H

• Keiichi Hara (原 恵一)
• Mamoru Hosoda (細田 守)^[5]

I

• Kunihiko Ikuhara (幾原 邦彦)^[6]
• Tomoyuki Itamura (板村 智幸)
• Atsuko Ishizuka (いしずかあつこ)

K

• Sunao Katabuchi (片渕 須直)
• Yoshiaki Kawajiri (川尻 善昭)^[7]
• Shōji Kawamori (河森 正治)^[8]
• Osamu Kobayashi (小林 治)^[9]
• Satoshi Kon (今 敏)^[10]

M

• Kōichi Mashimo (真下 耕一)^[11]
• Tsutomu Mizushima (水島 努)
• Hayao Miyazaki (宮崎 駿)^[12]
• Takeshi Mori (もりたけし)^[13]

N

• Shingo Natsume (夏目真悟)^[14]

O

• Mari Okada (岡田 麿里)^[15]
• Shinichi Omata (小俣 真一)
• Shin Oonuma (大沼 心)
• Mamoru Oshii (押井 守)^[16]
• Katsuhiro Otomo (大友 克洋)^[17]

R

• Rintaro (りんたろう)^[18]

S

• Junichi Sato (佐藤 順一)^[19]
• Akiyuki Shinbo (新房 昭之)^[20]
• Makoto Shinkai (新津 誠)

T

• Isao Takahata (高畑 勲)^[21]
• Yoshiyuki Tomino (富野 由悠季)

U

• Hiroko Utsumi (内海紘子)

Y

• Naoko Yamada (山田 尚子)^[22]
• Masaaki Yuasa (湯浅 政明)

See also

• List of Japanese animation studios

References

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