Kenji Kamiyama

Kenji Kamiyama
神山 健治
Born	(1966-03-20) March 20, 1966 (age 58) Saitama Prefecture, Japan[1]
Occupation(s)	Anime television and film director, artist and screenwriter
Website	www.ph9.jp

Kenji Kamiyama (神山 健治, Kamiyama Kenji, born on March 20, 1966) is a Japanese anime director.

Career

Kamiyama has worked regularly with the anime studio and production enterprise

Kamiyama and Shinji Aramaki directed Blade Runner: Black Lotus, an anime for Adult Swim and Crunchyroll, which was released in 2021 and 2022.^[2][3][4]

On August 2, 2021, it was announced that Kamiyama, both director and writer of the feature-length anime work, Eien no 831 (The Eternal 831) which was broadcast in January 2022 on Wowow.^[5]

Filmography

• DuckTales (1987), backgrounds^[6]
• Patlabor (1988–1989), backgrounds^[6]
• Burn Up! (1991), art director
• Hakkenden: Legend of the Dog Warriors (1990–1991, 1993–1995), art director
• Roujin Z (1991), assistant art director
• Genocyber (1994), art director
• Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
  (1998), unit director
• Wild Arms: Twilight Venom (1999–2000), scripts for episodes 3, 10 and 21
• Medabots (1999–2000), storyboards for episodes 19, 34, 41, 48 and episode director for 34, 41, 48
• Popolocrois Story II
  (2000), storyboards
• Blood: The Last Vampire (2000), screenplay, planning assistance
• Mini Pato (2002), director
• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002–2003), director,^[6] series composition, script, storyboard, chief writer
• Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG (2004–2005), director,^[6]
  series composition, script, storyboard, chief writer
• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society (2006), director,^[6] script, storyboard
• Eat and Run: 6 Beautiful Grifters (2007), segment director^[6]
• Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit (2007),^[6] director, script
• Eden of the East (2009), director, series composition, script, storyboard, chief writer
• Eden of the East: Air Communication (2009), director, screenplay
• Eden of the East: The King of Eden (2009), director, screenplay
• Eden of the East: Paradise Lost (2010), director, screenplay
• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society 3D (2011), director, script, storyboard
• 009 Re:Cyborg (2012), director, script
• Mou Hitotsu no Mirai o. (2014), director
• Cyborg 009 Call of Justice (2016), chief director
• Napping Princess (2017), director, screenplay
• Ultraman (2019–2023), co-director with Shinji Aramaki
• Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 (2020–2022), co-director with Shinji Aramaki^[7]
• Star Wars: Visions (2021) ("The Ninth Jedi")
• Blade Runner: Black Lotus (2021–2022), co-director with Shinji Aramaki
• Eien no 831 (2022), director^[5]
• The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (2024), director^[8]

References

External links

• Interview with Kenji Kamiyama
• Kenji Kamiyama at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Kenji Kamiyama at
  IMDb