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Japanese anime director
Kazuto Nakazawa (中澤 一登, Nakazawa Kazuto, born March 4, 1968) is a Japanese
character designer and
director of numerous
anime series and
video games who also goes by the
pseudonym Takeshi Tsuji (辻 武司, Tsuji Takeshi). His directorial work includes
Parasite Dolls, the anime sequence in
Kill Bill: Volume 1, and the Moondrive segment of
Genius Party Beyond. He has designed characters for many anime, such as
Ashita no Nadja and
Samurai Champloo, for which he also served as
animation director. In addition to his work with anime, he designed the characters of
Tales of Legendia and was the animation director of
Devil Kings. Throughout his career, he has worked also as an
animator, providing key animations to anime such as
The Animatrix's "
Kid's Story" and "
A Detective Story". He has made two appearances at
anime conventions in the
United States: at
Otakon in 1999 and 2006. He also animated the
Joe Hahn-directed
music video for the
Linkin Park song "
Breaking the Habit."
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Filmography
TV series
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El-Hazard (1995) – character designer, chief animation director
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Tenchi in Tokyo (1997) – character designer, chief animation director
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Black Heaven (1999) – character designer
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Final Fantasy: Unlimited (2001) – character designer
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Ashita no Nadja (2003) – character designer
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Samurai Champloo (2004) – character designer, chief animation director
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Yurururu ~Nichijou Hen~ (2007) – director
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House of Five Leaves (2010) – character designer, chief animation director
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Terror in Resonance (2014) – character designer, chief animation director
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Days (2016) – character designer
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B: The Beginning (2018) - creator, director, character designer, key animation supervisor
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Fena: Pirate Princess (2021) – creator, director, original character designer
Films
OVAs/ONAs
Video games
- Le Roman de la Reine (1998) – character designer
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Tales of Legendia (2005) – character designer
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Asura's Wrath (2012) – director & main character designer (ep 15.5)
Music videos
Bibliography
- El Hazard: The Magnificent World Setting Collection (神秘の世界エルハザード 設定資料集). AIC, 1996.
ISBN
978-4900817081
- El-Hazard: The Wanderers Setting Collection (神秘の世界エルハザード TVシリーズ 設定資料集). AIC, 1997.
ISBN
978-4900817128
- Tenchi in Tokyo Setting Collection (新 天地無用! 設定資料集). AIC, 1998.
ISBN
978-4900817166
- Roman Album: Samurai Champloo. Dark Horse, 2007.
ISBN
978-1593076429
- Top Creators Teach How to Characters (トップクリエイターが教えるキャラクターの創り方『サムライチャンプルー』『エルゴプラクシー』にみるアニメーション制作現場). MC Press, 2007.
ISBN
978-4901972949
- B: The Beginning Artworks (B: The Beginning アートワークス). PIE International, 2019.
ISBN
978-4756251848
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