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CREDITS

Executive Producer  Tsunehiko Kadokawa
Producers  Kazuo Yokoyama, Masanori Maruyama, Kazuhiko Ikeguchi
Director  Rintaro
Script  Asami Watanabe, Nanase Ohkawa, Rintaro
Director of Photography  Jin Yamaguchi
Project Developer  Takeshi Tamiya, Nanase Ohkawa
Based on the Original Story by  Clamp, Satsuki Igarashi, Mokona Apapa, Nanase Ohkawa, Mikku "Mick" Nekoi
Character Design & Director of Original Drawings  Nobuteru Yuki
Art Director  Shuichi Hirata
Assistant Art Director  Hisashi Ikeda
Music  Harumitsu Shimizu (Santora: Victoria Entertainment)
Music Producer  Shiroh Sasaki
Theme Music Director  Yoshiki
Editors  Harutoshi Ogata, Yukiko Itoh, Satoshi Terauchi
FX Editor  Shizuo Kurahashi

The Director

Rintaro was born Shigeyuki Hayashi in 1941. He began his career at the age of 17 in animation with Toei Animation working on the very first Japanese animated feature film, White Snake Legend. In the early sixties, he went to work for Osamu Tezuka's Mushi Productions where he directed episodes of the television series Astro Boy and Kimba The White Lion.

While with Tezuka, he adopted the pseudonym of Rintaro. When Mushi went bankrupt, Rintaro returned to Toei Studios working exclusively in television. Since 1971 he has been a freelancer, but has worked extensively with Group Tac and Madhouse. During the seventies he cemented his position as one of the best television anime directors and in 1979, he directed his first animated feature film, Galaxy Express 999.

X represents the first time Rintaro employed computer animation. Having completed X, Rintaro is now in production on Metropolis, which is written by Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira) and based on a story by Osamu Tezuka (Black Jack) with backgrounds by the acclaimed animator Shuichi Hirata (Ghost in the Shell, Patlabor)

Filmography

X (1996)

Meikyû monogatari (1987)(aka Neo-Tokyo)

Hi no tori: Hôô hen (1986)

Kamui no ken (1985) (aka Dagger of Kamui and Revenge of the Ninja Warrior)

Genma taisen (1982) (aka Harmageddon: The Great Battle with Genma)

Sayonara ginga tetsudô Three-Nine: Andromeda shûchakueki (1981) (aka Adieu, Galaxy Express 999)

Ginga tetsudô Three-Nine (1979) (aka Galaxy Express and Galaxy Express 999)











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