Kenji Kamiyama

Kenji Kamiyama
Born	(1966-03-20) March 20, 1966 Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Occupation(s)	Anime television and film director, artist and screenwriter.

Kenji Kamiyama (神山健治, Kamiyama Kenji), born on March 20, 1966 in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese anime director. He has worked regularly with the anime studio and production enterprise, Production I.G, such as his work on Jin-Roh, Patlabor, Blood: The Last Vampire, and for whom he has directed the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex anime television series, which was followed on into a second season, Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG and a TV movie, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society.

After working as a background artist for productions such as Akira and Kiki's Delivery Service, he joined Team Oshii at Production I.G, contributing the screenplay of Blood: The Last Vampire and working as animation director for Jin-Roh. In 2002 he made his directorial debut with MiniPato, followed by Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG. In 2007, after almost 6 years of work on the Stand Alone Complex world, he directed the TV series Guardian of the Sacred Spirit and Higashi no Eden (TV series & two movies).

Filmography

• Burn Up! (1991) (Art director)
• Hakkenden: Legend of the Dog Warriors (1990-1991, 1993-1995) Art director
• Roujin Z (1991) (Assistant Art Director)
• Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (1998) (Animation director)
• Wild ARMS: Twilight Venom (1999-2000) (scripts for episodes 3, 10 and 21)
• 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, Series Composition, Script, Storyboard, Chief Writer)
• Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG (2004-2005) (Director, Series Composition, Script, Storyboard, Chief Writer)
• Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. Solid State Society (2006) (Director, Script, Storyboard)
• Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit (2007) (Director, Script)
• Eden of the East (TV Series) (2009) (Director, Series Composition, Script, Storyboard, Chief Writer)
• Eden of the East - Air Communication (Film) (2009) (Director)
• Eden of the East - The King of Eden (Film) (2009) (Director, screenplay)
• Eden of the East - Paradise Lost (Film) (2010) (Director, screenplay)
• Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. Solid State Society - 3D (2011) (Director, Script, Storyboard)

External links

• Kenji Kamiyama on Eden of the East, Catcher in the Rye, and things to do with ten billion yen.
• Interview with Kenji Kamiyama