Akihiko Yamashita

Akihiko Yamashita is an animator whose career includes character design, animation direction, storyboarding, and directing. He worked on Giant Robo the Animation, contributed key animation to Spirited Away, and became an animation director on Studio Ghibli films including Howl’s Moving Castle. He later directed “The Invisible Man” for Modest Heroes, which received a Japan Media Arts Festival Newcomer's Award.