Koji Morimoto is a Japanese anime director. Some of his works include being an animator in the Akira film; shorts in Robot Carnival, Short Peace, and The Animatrix; and key animation in anime such as Kiki’s Delivery Service, City Hunter, and Fist of the North Star. He is the co-founder of Studio 4°C.
Koji Morimoto Biography / Wiki
| Name | Koji Morimoto |
| Also Know | 森本晃å¸, Kôji Morimoto, Koji Morimoto, Kohji Morimoto, Kouji Morimoto |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | Wakayama, Japan |
| Date of Birth | December 26, 1959 |
| Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 63 |
| Deathday |
Koji Morimoto Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Memories of Memories | Self | 2004-02-24 | Memories (1995) making-of featurette, includes introductions to the creative genius behind the shows and looks at Otomo’s previous works, such as Ak… |
Koji Morimoto Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Beyond | Director | 2003-06-03 | While looking for her cat, a young woman and some kids find an abandoned building where strange things happen and the rules of physics don’t always ap… |
| Memories | Director | 1995-12-23 | In this anime anthology, a salvage ship crew happens upon a haunted vessel in “Magnetic Rose”; a cold tablet turns a lab worker into a biological weap… |
| Digital Juice | Director | 2002-01-25 | A series of short animations that show different worlds and different characters. These episodes are designed to take the viewer into a psychological … |
| Noiseman Sound Insect | Director | 1997-11-22 | The film is set in the distant future in a city called Cahmpon. A scientist creates a synthetic life-form called Noiseman, which erases music from the… |
| Eternal Family | Director | 1997-04-01 | Six men and women who are completely underground to one another have been given false memories and are living together as a family in a capsule hall. … |
| The Animatrix | Director | 2003-05-09 | Straight from the creators of the groundbreaking Matrix trilogy, this collection of short animated films from the world’s leading anime directors fuse… |
| Genius Party Beyond | Director | 2008-10-11 | Five stories, five maestros, five styles and one common denominator: maximum creativity. Studio 4°C, the coolest label on the planet, invites us for … |
| Fly! Peek the Whale | Director | 1991-05-22 | As a little boy Kei saw his fisherman father lost at sea only seconds after catching his parting gift of a pan flute carved from whalebone. A few year… |
| Dimensional Loop | Director | 2001-06-15 | The story of an apparitious extraterrestrial and a vertically mobile prepubescent…. |
| Robot Carnival | Director | 1987-07-21 | An anthology of various tales told in various styles with robots being the one common element among them…. |
| Open the Door | Director | 1995-06-05 | It’s bedtime and Nonoko is about to go to sleep. But the play of light and shadow on those objects on the wall, look almost like – a person…. |
| Street Fighter IV: The Ties That Bind | Director | 2009-02-12 | After the fall of Shadaloo, things went quiet and everyone continued with their daily routine. However a new evil is lurking on the horizon and the fi… |
| Jack and the Beanstalk | Director | 1989-01-01 | A little-known adaptation of “Jack and the Beanstalk,” directed by Koji Morimoto and produced at Studio 4°C in 1989 for the collection “Anime Video A… |
| Extra | Director | 1996-01-01 | Originally a music video for the song Extra by Ken Ishii, but it was later adapted into a 20 minute OVA. Depicts an extremely violent future world whe… |
| Tekkonkinkreet Pilot | Director | 1999-01-01 | Softimage’s Michael Arias started the project as a short CG exercise, which then came to the attention of Morimoto, who then agreed to work on the pro… |
| Sturgill Simpson Presents Sound & Fury | Director | 2019-09-27 | In this anime visual album, a mysterious driver heads deep into a postapocalyptic hellscape toward a ferocious showdown with two monstrous opponents…. |
| Hustle!! Tokitama-kun | Director | 1998-01-01 | Director’s description: “I want to show you a world that you have never seen.” I think this is something that all computer graphics producers strive f… |
| Kawaguchi Kaiji’s 9 Love Stories | Director | 1993-04-02 | An OVA based on the work of Kawaguchi Kaiji consisting of nine independent stories, each animated by a different director. With Beatles music involved… |
| FLUXIMATION | Director | 2005-09-20 | A compilation of 14 short videos made by Studio 4°C’s directors and artists…. |
| Attraction | Director | 2010-11-16 | Attraction is a revolutionary interactive anime film by Koji Morimoto of Tokyo-based production studio 4°C and was requested by INPES (Institut natio… |
| CONNECTED… | Director | 2020-12-06 | A collaboration of Mamoru Oshii, Koji Morimoto, and KENWOOD. This short animation is inspired by “Smart Headsets” (earphones with AI assistant) that d… |
| Director | Haruto Tsukishiro wakes up in a dream world dominated by strange and powerful entities called Witches. To survive, he gets the assistance of research … | ||
| Director | Ekoda-chan is from the countryside, living alone in the city. She’s a temp worker and a strong, carefree soul, with no solid plan for the future, who … | ||
| Director | An anthology of various tales with robots being the one common element among them. It consists of nine shorts by different well-known directors, many … | ||
| Director | “Memories” is made up of three separate science-fiction stories. In the first, “Magnetic Rose,” four space travelers are drawn into an abandoned space… | ||
| Director | Five stories, five maestros, five styles and one common denominator: maximum creativity. Studio 4°C, the coolest label on the planet, invites us for … | ||
Koji Morimoto Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Producer | Behind a gravity curtain floats Kikaijima, a colossal island quarantined since the last world war. It’s a lawless prison junkyard of robot machine s… | ||
| Co-Producer | Dr. Hell has resurrected an ancient army of mechanical monsters to conquer the world, but first he has to destroy the photon power lab and the one thi… | ||
| Co-Producer | Developed from Japanium ore is the super energy, Photon Power. Seeking this energy is Dr. Hell, a madman craving world domination who along with his s… | ||
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Animatrix | Writer | 2003-05-09 | Straight from the creators of the groundbreaking Matrix trilogy, this collection of short animated films from the world’s leading anime directors fuse… |
| Fly! Peek the Whale | Writer | 1991-05-22 | As a little boy Kei saw his fisherman father lost at sea only seconds after catching his parting gift of a pan flute carved from whalebone. A few year… |
| Beyond | Writer | 2003-06-03 | While looking for her cat, a young woman and some kids find an abandoned building where strange things happen and the rules of physics don’t always ap… |
| Open the Door | Writer | 1995-06-05 | It’s bedtime and Nonoko is about to go to sleep. But the play of light and shadow on those objects on the wall, look almost like – a person…. |
| Eternal Family | Screenplay | 1997-04-01 | Six men and women who are completely underground to one another have been given false memories and are living together as a family in a capsule hall. … |
| Robot Carnival | Writer | 1987-07-21 | An anthology of various tales told in various styles with robots being the one common element among them…. |
| Screenplay | Haruto Tsukishiro wakes up in a dream world dominated by strange and powerful entities called Witches. To survive, he gets the assistance of research … | ||
| Writer | Five stories, five maestros, five styles and one common denominator: maximum creativity. Studio 4°C, the coolest label on the planet, invites us for … | ||
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Tekkonkinkreet | Storyboard Artist | 2006-10-21 | Two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggle to survive on the mean streets of Treasure Town. When a megacorporation threatens to tear down the to… |
| Dirty Pair: Project Eden | Opening Title Sequence | 1987-03-14 | Sent to the planet Agerna to investigate a feud between two opposing factions, Kei and Yuri must find out why strange creatures are attacking vezorium… |
| Robot Carnival | Animation | 1987-07-21 | An anthology of various tales told in various styles with robots being the one common element among them…. |
| Eternal Family | Character Designer | 1997-04-01 | Six men and women who are completely underground to one another have been given false memories and are living together as a family in a capsule hall. … |
| Robot Carnival | Character Designer | 1987-07-21 | An anthology of various tales told in various styles with robots being the one common element among them…. |
| Genius Party Beyond | Character Designer | 2008-10-11 | Five stories, five maestros, five styles and one common denominator: maximum creativity. Studio 4°C, the coolest label on the planet, invites us for … |
| Genius Party Beyond | Animation Director | 2008-10-11 | Five stories, five maestros, five styles and one common denominator: maximum creativity. Studio 4°C, the coolest label on the planet, invites us for … |
| Beyond | Character Designer | 2003-06-03 | While looking for her cat, a young woman and some kids find an abandoned building where strange things happen and the rules of physics don’t always ap… |
| Comedy | Animation | 2002-05-02 | During Ireland’s War of Independence, a five-year-old girl sets out to save her village from the English army by trying to enlist the help of the rumo… |
| Makoto-chan | Animation | 1980-07-26 | The series follows the odd life of kindergartener Makoto Sawada and his family. Makoto gets into all sorts of toilet and adult humor. He sometimes dre… |
| Open the Door | Animation Director | 1995-06-05 | It’s bedtime and Nonoko is about to go to sleep. But the play of light and shadow on those objects on the wall, look almost like – a person…. |
| Extra | Character Designer | 1996-01-01 | Originally a music video for the song Extra by Ken Ishii, but it was later adapted into a 20 minute OVA. Depicts an extremely violent future world whe… |
| Mind Game | Animation Director | 2004-08-07 | The film follows Nishi, a loser who has a crush on his childhood girlfriend. After an encounter with the Japanese mafia, the film follows Nishi as he … |
| Noiseman Sound Insect | Character Designer | 1997-11-22 | The film is set in the distant future in a city called Cahmpon. A scientist creates a synthetic life-form called Noiseman, which erases music from the… |
| Noiseman Sound Insect | Animation Supervisor | 1997-11-22 | The film is set in the distant future in a city called Cahmpon. A scientist creates a synthetic life-form called Noiseman, which erases music from the… |
| Hustle!! Tokitama-kun | Character Designer | 1998-01-01 | Director’s description: “I want to show you a world that you have never seen.” I think this is something that all computer graphics producers strive f… |
| Attraction | Key Animation | 2010-11-16 | Attraction is a revolutionary interactive anime film by Koji Morimoto of Tokyo-based production studio 4°C and was requested by INPES (Institut natio… |
| Spriggan | Key Animation | 1998-09-05 | An elite superhuman agent must stop a foreign military unit from seizing control of an ancient artifact that holds the key to ultimate power…. |
| Roujin Z | Key Animation | 1991-09-14 | Mr. Takazawa, an elderly invalid who is cared for at his home by Haruko, a young nursing student, is chosen by the Japanese Ministry of Public Welfare… |
| The Phoenix: Karma Chapter | Key Animation | 1986-12-20 | The story of two men – sculptor genius Akanemaru, and former bandit Gao. Discover how the lives of the two men cross repeatedly throughout their lives… |
| The Dagger of Kamui | Key Animation | 1985-01-01 | A young boy named Jiro finds his mother and sister murdered in his home. Falsely accused of the crime, he flees from his village and meets a priest na… |
| Bobby’s Girl | Key Animation | 1985-03-09 | Bobby is an underachieving high school kid with a deep love for motorcycles. His most recent achievement seems to have been getting photos of himself … |
| Kiki’s Delivery Service | Key Animation | 1989-07-29 | A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air co… |
| Golgo 13: The Professional | Key Animation | 1983-05-28 | Indestructible to his enemies and irresistible to women, the professional assassin codenamed Golgo 13 is shrouded in mystery and anonymity. If you’re … |
| Macross: Do You Remember Love? | Key Animation | 1984-07-21 | It is A.D. 2009 and the human race is caught in a war between giant humanoids, male Zentrans and female Meltrans. Returning from the edge of our solar… |
| Space Adventure Cobra: The Movie | Animation | 1982-07-03 | Cobra, a notorious space pirate, is enlisted by bounty hunter Jane to rescue her sister from the strange being known as Crystal Bowie, but then finds … |
| Harmagedon | Key Animation | 1983-03-12 | From the depths of space he is coming… Ancient beyond understanding, his power is immeasurable. He has destroyed half the universe and is on his way… |
| Tomorrow’s Joe 2 | Key Animation | 1981-07-18 | It has been six months since the tragic accident in Joe and Rikiishi’s fight. Joe believes he has overcomed Rikiishi’s death and decides to make a com… |
| Animation Director | Haruto Tsukishiro wakes up in a dream world dominated by strange and powerful entities called Witches. To survive, he gets the assistance of research … | ||
| Character Designer | An anthology of four animated shorts: Global Astroliner Gou, Glass Eye, Kung-Fu Love, and Joe and Marilyn…. | ||
| Key Animation | Haruto Tsukishiro wakes up in a dream world dominated by strange and powerful entities called Witches. To survive, he gets the assistance of research … | ||
| Storyboard Artist | Haruto Tsukishiro wakes up in a dream world dominated by strange and powerful entities called Witches. To survive, he gets the assistance of research … | ||
| Key Animation | Five stories, five maestros, five styles and one common denominator: maximum creativity. Studio 4°C, the coolest label on the planet, invites us for … | ||
| Key Animation | Cobra lived an adventurous life until his enemies began to hunt him down. He surgically altered his face and erased his own memory in order to hide fr… | ||
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