Isao Takahata

Isao Takahata was born on 29 October 1935 in Ujiyamada, now Ise, the youngest of seven children. In June 1945, he escaped an American air raid on Okayama. A graduate in French literature from the University of Tokyo in 1959, he came to animation after seeing a French animated film and joined Tōei the same year as an assistant director. There he met a younger colleague with whom he worked for a long time, and he founded a studio in 1985. He was not himself a draughtsman. He died of lung cancer in 2018.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaGrave of the Fireflies火垂るの墓Isao Takahata · 1988Cinema