Pc about list en

---

1967

1982

age15

*number of theaters=at time of release

*age at the end of the year

D i r e c t o r   M a m o r u   H o s o d a’s   T i m e l i n e

1979

age12

Declares his aspiration to become an ani-

mation director when graduating from 

elementary school.

Enters middle school. Hoping to become an 

artist, gets immersed in landscape draw-

ing.

age36

Born in Toyoma prefecture.

2003

Art direction for the opening and ending seg-

ments of Nadja and several whole episodes.

Directs SUPERFLAT MONOGRAM by Takashi 

Murakami.

Directs The Creatures from Planet 66—Rop-

pongi Hills Story.

age38

2006

Directs  The Girl Who Leapt Through Time 

(released in July).

The first animation adaptation of Yasutaka 

Tsutsui’s classic young adult novel. The film 

was initially released to only six theaters but 

became a long-run hit, drawing 186,000 ad-

missions. It was also invited to numerous film 

festivals around the world, increasing recog-

nition both domestic and abroad.

age41

2009

Directs Summer Wars (released in August).

His first direction of his original story about a 

coming-to-age love, a big family in the coun-

tryside, and the Internet. An embodiment of 

his aspiration and passion. The film was 

released to 127 theaters, an astonishing 

increase in number, drawing 1.23 million 

admissions.

age43

2011

Establishes animation studio Studio Chizu 

with Producer Yuichiro Saito in April. The 

word “chizu,” which means “map” in Japa-

nese, manifests their wish to navigate 

uncharted waters in the world of animation 

films.

age44

2012

Directs Wolf Children (released in July).

Writes the screenplay and the novel based 

on his original story. Released to 333 the-

aters drawing 3.44 million admissions. The 

universal theme of “a mother raising her 

children” and its stimulating contents were 

widely received, and the film becomes a big 

box office hit. It also captures the attention of 

Gaumont, the world’s oldest film distribution 

company still in business today.

age47

2015

Directs  The Boy and The Beast (released in 

July).

An entertainment tour de force for which he 

wrote the screenplay and the novel based on 

his original story. It draws 4.59 million ad-

missions in 355 theaters and is number one 

at the Japanese box office during its opening 

weekend in 2015. Distributed in 49 countries 

and districts, including France by Gaumont.

Independently produces a paper anima-

tion approximately 2.5 minutes long and 

presents it at his middle school festival.

1983

age16

Submits abovementioned animation to a 

promotion event for Kadokawa film Shonen 

Keniya (released in 1984, directed by 

Nobuhiko Obayashi) and it gets accepted. 

Encouraged to move to Tokyo but decides 

to put academics first.

1986

age18

E n t e r s   t h e   K a n a z a w a   C o l l e g e   o f   A r t ,  

Department of Fine Art, and majors in oil 

painting.

1991

age23

After graduating college, joins Toei Doga 

(now Toei Animation) as an animator.

1995

age28

Passes the first in-house examination for 

the art directing division and starts his 

career as a director.

1999

age32

Directs  Digimon Adventure for theater 

release. 

Also directs several full-CG, 3D-applica-

ble short films (for amusement parks, etc.) 

and gets his first experience in digital art.

2000

age33

Directs Digimon Adventure: Our War Game!.

Appointed by modern artist Takashi Muraka-

mi, who watched the film, to direct the 

subsequent two short films.

Leaves Toei Animation and joins Studio 

Ghibli.

2002

age34

Rejoins Toei Animation in April.

Art direction for MAGICAL DO RE MI 4 epi-

sodes 40 and 49.

His abovementioned art direction catches 

the attention of Producer Masao Maruyama, 

then with MADHOUSE (currently the rep-

resentative director of Studio M2), who 

paves the path for The Girl Who Leapt 

Through Time.