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Tensai Okamura al Chibi Japan Expo nel 2007

Okamura Tensai (岡村天斎^?, Tensai Okamura) (Fukushima, 13 dicembre 1961) è un regista, disegnatore di storyboard e direttore del suono giapponese, principalmente attivo nel campo dell'animazione.

alma_mater Waseda University's department of science and engineering employer Madhouse Currently freelance occupation = Anime director and animator

Tensai Okamura (岡村 天斎^?, Okamura Tensai) born Yutaka Okamura (岡村 豊^?, Okamura Yutaka) on December 13, 1961, in Fukushima Prefecture is a Japanese anime director and animator. Okamura grew up in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. He is a graduate of Waseda University's department of science and engineering. In 1991, he changed his first name to Tensai.

Biografia

During his university days at Waseda University, Okamura was a part of Waseda's manga research society and together with other budding animators, produced his first independent anime there. Upon graduating from university, Okamura joined the animation production studio Madhouse as an animator with the recommendation of a friend. Lensman: Secret of The Lens was the first he worked on as an animator. In 1989, he made his debut as an episode director with YAWARA! a fashionable judo girl! and soon made his full directorial debut in 1995 with Memories. He later left Madhouse and went freelance, working on several projects along the way.

Serie TV

• Galactic Patrol Lensman (1984, in-between animation)
• YAWARA! a fashionable judo girl! (1989, episode overview and storyboards)
• Blue Seed (1994, key animation)
• Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995, episode direction, storyboards and key animation)
• Cowboy Bebop (1998, storyboards)
• Medabots (1999, director, episode direction and storyboards)
• Jinzō Ningen Kikaidā: The Animation (2000, director, episode direction, storyboards)
• Full Metal Panic! (2002, storyboards and episode direction)
• RahXephon (2002, storyboards)
• Wolf's Rain (2003, director, storyboards, episode direction)
• Samurai Champloo (2004, storyboards)
• Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd Gig (2004, storyboards)
• Victorian Romance Emma (2005, storyboards)
• Ouran High School Host Club (2006, storyboards)
• Project Blue Earth SOS (2006, director)
• Darker than Black: Kuro no Keiyakusha (2007, director, original concept, series composition)
• Soul Eater (2008, storyboards, episode direction, second opening theme storyboards and direction)
• Nijū Mensō no Musume (2008, storyboards)
• Real Drive (2008, storyboards)
• Kannagi (2008, storyboards)
• Canaan (2009, storyboards)
• Darker Than Black: Ryūsei no Gemini (2009, director)
• Blue Exorcist (2011, director)
• Hanasaku Iroha (2011, storyboards)
• Guilty Crown (2012, storyboards)
• Tari Tari (2012, storyboards)
• Sword Art Online (2012, storyboards)
• Vividred Operation (2013, script)
• Nagi no Asukara (2013, storyboard)
• World Conquest Zvezda Plot (2014, director, series composition)
• Nanatsu no Taizai (2014, director)
• Kuromukuro (2016, director)

Film

• Lensman: Secret of The Lens (1984, in-between animation)
• The Dagger of Kamui (1985, in-between animation)
• Neo Tokyo (1986, in-between animation)
• Toki no Tabibito -Time Stranger- (1986, in-between animation)
• Wicked City (1987, key animation)
• Legend of the Galactic Heroes: My Conquest is the Sea of Stars (1988, key animation)
• My Neighbor Totoro (1988, key animation)
• City Hunter: Bay City Wars (1990, key animation)
• Urusei Yatsura: Always, My Darling (1991, key animation)
• Hashire Melos! (1992, key animation)
• Ninja Scroll (1993, key animation)
• Ghost in the Shell / Kōkaku Kidōtai (1995, key animation)
• Memories Episode 2: Stink Bomb (1995, director)
• Neon Genesis Evangelion Gekijōban: The End of Evangelion (1997, #25 key animation)
• Spriggan (1998, gun art)
• Jin-Roh (2000, key animation)
• Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door (2001, western scene storyboards, key animation, animation direction coordinator)
• Gekijōban Naruto: Daikatsugeki! Yukihime Ninpōchō Dattebayo!! (2004, director)
• Gekijōban Naruto: Daigekitotsu! Maboroshi no Chiteiiseki Dattebayo (2005, key animation)

OVA

• Junk Boy (1987, key animation)
• The Phoenix -Space- (1987, key animation)
• Demon City Shinjuku (1988, key animation)
• Goku: Midnight Eye (1989, animation direction, key animation)
• Cyber City Oedo 808 (1990, key animation)
• Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory (1991, key animation)
• Darker Than Black: Gaiden (2010, director, writer)

Videogiochi

• Tales of Destiny (1997, opening animation direction)
• Tales of Phantasia (1998, opening animation direction)
• Wild Arms 2: 2nd Ignition (1999, opening animation direction)

Collegamenti esterni

Altri progetti

• Wikimedia Commons

• Wikimedia Commons contiene immagini o altri file su Drafnir/sandbox
• (EN) Scheda su Drafnir/sandbox, Anime News Network.