Nizou Yamamoto
Personal Info
Known For Art
Gender Male
Birthday 1953-06-27
Deathday 2023-08-19 (70 years old)
Place of Birth Fukue, Nagasaki, Japan [now Goto, Nagasaki, Japan]
Also Known As Ямамото Нидзо, Nizô Yamamoto, Nizo Yamamoto
Nizou Yamamoto
Biography
Nizou Yamamoto (山本 二三, Yamamoto Nizō) was born on 27 June 1953 in Fukue-shi (a town within Gotou City [Gotou-shi]), in Nagasaki Prefecture, and was one of the most well-known anime art directors and background artists in Japan. He was especially famous for his work on several of the Studio Ghibli films directed or produced by Hayao Miyazaki or Isao Takahata including Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986), Grave of the Fireflies (1988), Only Yesterday (1991), Whisper of the Heart (1995), Princess Mononoke (1997), and Spirited Away (2001).
Known For
Art
as Art Direction
as Painter
as Background Designer
as Background Designer
as Storyboard Artist
as Art Direction
as Art Direction
as Art Direction
as Background Designer
as Background Designer
as Art Direction
as Art Direction
as Background Designer
as Art Direction
as Art Direction
as Background Designer
as Art Direction
as Art Direction
as Art Designer
as Background Designer
as Art Direction
as Background Designer
as Art Direction
as Art Direction
as Art Direction
as Background Designer
as Art Direction
as Art Direction
as Background Designer
as Art Direction
as Art Designer
Director
as Director