Yoshiaki Kawajiri

Quick Facts

Full Name	Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	Nov 18, 1950(1950-11-18)
Age	74
Birthplace	Yokohama
Country	Japan
Birth City	Kanagawa Prefecture
Horoscope	Scorpio

Yoshiaki Kawajiri Biography

Yoshiaki Kawajiri is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on November 18, 1950 in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

Yoshiaki Kawajiri (川尻 善昭 , Kawajiri Yoshiaki, born November 18, 1950) is a writer and director of Japanese animation. He is the creator of titles such as Wicked City, Ninja Scroll, and Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust.

Wicked City received critical and commercial success when released in 1987, giving Kawajiri more creative freedom. He began scripting and designing his own film set in feudal Japan. The result, Ninja Scroll, about the Japanese folk hero Jubei Yagyu, was soon released. After the Western release in 1996, Kawajiri’s status as a director received international recognition. He was asked in 2002 to direct a segment, titled Program, of The Animatrix, considered a showcase of the best directors of Japanese animation. Before The Animatrix, he also directed Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, which was based on a novel by Hideyuki Kikuchi.

Yoshiaki Kawajiri Net Worth

Yoshiaki Kawajiri is one of the richest Film Director from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Yoshiaki Kawajiri 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Kawajiri was born on November 18, 1950 and grew up in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. After he graduated from high school in 1968, he worked as an animator at Mushi Production Animation until it closed in 1972. He then joined Madhouse as one of the four co-founders, and in the 1970s was promoted to animation director. He finally debuted as a film director with 1984’s Lensman: Secret of The Lens, directing jointly with the more experienced Kazuyuki Hirokawa (Kawajiri also did the character design along with Kazuo Tomizawa). Gaining an interest in darker animation, he next directed The Running Man. Afterwards, he was instructed to make a 35-minute short based on Hideyuki Kikuchi’s novels, which was released as Wicked City. After completing it, however, his producers were so impressed that he was asked to make it a feature-length film. Kawajiri enjoyed the dark tone, and agreed to manage and complete the film within a year. That same year he began to work for the Original Video Animation market debuting with “The Phoenix”. From 1987 he also wrote his own scripts.

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Andreas Ranked on the list of most popular Film Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Yoshiaki Kawajiri celebrates birthday on November 18 of every year.