Kazunori Ito
Encyclopedia
is a Japanese
anime
screenwriter
and artist who is well known for his work in the .hack Franchise
and his writing for the Ghost in the Shell movie
. Itō also provided the art for .hack//Another Birth
. He is a member of the artist group known as Headgear
.
Japanese people
The are an ethnic group originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries...
anime
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
and artist who is well known for his work in the .hack Franchise
.hack
.hack is a Japanese multimedia franchise that encompasses two projects; Project .hack and .hack Conglomerate. Both projects were primarily created/developed by CyberConnect2, and published by Bandai...
and his writing for the Ghost in the Shell movie
Ghost in the Shell (film)
"See You Everyday" is different from the rest of the soundtrack, being a pop song sung in Cantonese by Fang Ka Wing. It can be faintly heard playing in the marketplace scene, when Batou is hunting the ghost-hacked puppet....
. Itō also provided the art for .hack//Another Birth
.hack//Another Birth
is a novelization of .hack, the video game series for the PlayStation 2. Whereas .hack is told from Kite's perspective, Another Birth is told from BlackRose's perspective.-Plot:...
. He is a member of the artist group known as Headgear
Headgear (artist group)
Headgear is a group consisting of 5 writers and artists who work in the Japanese anime/manga field. The group was set up so that all the creators could retain full copyright to their work, achieve greater publicity for their work and sell their manga to anime sponsors for film production. The...
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Filmography
| Year | Anime | Job |
|---|---|---|
| 1980s | ||
| 1983 | Magical Angel Creamy Mami Magical Angel Creamy Mami is a magical girl anime series by Studio Pierrot from 1983. It went on to have five OVA adaptions and featured in other Studio Pierrot special presentations. A three volume manga was released during the original TV run, with the story written by Kazunori Itō and art by Yuuko Kitagawa... |
screenplay |
| 1985 | Dirty Pair Dirty Pair is a series of sci-fi comedy light novels written by Haruka Takachiho and illustrated by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko that was later adapted into anime and manga versions.... |
screenplay |
| 1985 | Original Dirty Pair #5: Affair of Nolandia | screenplay |
| 1986 | Urusei Yatsura Urusei Yatsura is a comedic manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi that premiered in Weekly Shōnen Sunday in 1978 and ran until its conclusion in 1987. Its 374 individual chapters were collected and published in 34 tankōbon volumes. The series tells the story of Ataru Moroboshi, and the alien... : Ryoko's September Tea Party |
screenplay |
| Maison Ikkoku Maison Ikkoku is a Japanese seinen manga written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi and serialized in the manga magazine Big Comic Spirits from 1980 through 1987. Maison Ikkoku is a bitter-sweet comedic romance involving a group of madcap people who live in a boarding house in 1980s Tokyo... |
screenplay | |
| 1987 | The Red Spectacles The Red Spectacles is a 1987 absurdist, surrealist Japanese film directed by Mamoru Oshii, co-written with Kazunori Ito, and starring Shigeru Chiba and Mako Hyodo.This is the first film of the Kerberos saga and last episode in Oshii's Orwellian Watchdog of Hell feature trilogy.-Chronicles:Kerberos saga historical... |
screenplay |
| 1989 | Patlabor: The Movie | screenplay |
| 1990s | ||
| 1993 | Patlabor: The Movie 2 Patlabor: The Movie 2 is a 1993 Japanese anime film directed by Mamoru Oshii, who also directed Patlabor: The Movie. The movie has taken some liberties from being a mecha-themed movie in theme to a political-themed one with domestic and international issues that the Japanese government had faced during the 20th century... |
screenplay |
| 1993 | Necronomicon | screenplay (part 2) |
| 1995 | Ghost in the Shell (movie) Ghost in the Shell (film) "See You Everyday" is different from the rest of the soundtrack, being a pop song sung in Cantonese by Fang Ka Wing. It can be faintly heard playing in the marketplace scene, when Batou is hunting the ghost-hacked puppet.... |
screenplay |
| 1995 | Gamera: Guardian of the Universe Gamera: Guardian of the Universe , is a 1995 Kaiju film directed by Shusuke Kaneko. It is a reboot of the Gamera film franchise. It is the ninth entry in the Gamera film series and first in Shusuke Kaneko's Gamera trilogy. It was followed by Attack of The Legion and Revenge of Iris.... |
screenplay |
| 1996 | Rudra no Hihō | screenplay co-writer |
| 1996 | Gamera 2: Attack of Legion Gamera 2: Attack of Legion is a 1996 Kaiju film directed by Shusuke Kaneko. It is a sequel to Gamera: Guardian of the Universe and the tenth Gamera film in the series.-Plot:... |
screenplay |
| 1999 | Gamera 3: Awakening of Irys Gamera 3: Awakening of Irys is a 1999 Kaiju film. It is the third and last film in the Gamera Heisei series, and the last to be distributed by Toho. It was released in the United States on DVD in 2003 under the title Gamera: Revenge of Iris.-Plot:... |
script |
| 2000s | ||
| 2001 | Avalon Avalon (2001 film) is a 2001 science-fiction film by Japanese filmmaker Mamoru Oshii. The name of the film originates from the island Avalon in the legend of King Arthur.-Overview:... |
screenplay |
| 2001 | Pistol Opera Pistol Opera is a 2001 Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki and starring Makiko Esumi. As one of Seijun's last fims, it is related to Suzuki's 1967 Branded to Kill, either as a remake or sequel... |
screenplay |
| 2002 | .hack//Sign .hack//SIGN .hack//Sign is an anime television series directed by Kōichi Mashimo and produced by studio Bee Train and Bandai Visual, that makes up one of the four original storylines of the .hack franchise... |
screenplay, series planner, soundtrack supervisor |
| .hack OVAs: .hack//Intermezzo, .hack//Unison, .hack//Gift | screenplay | |
| .hack//Liminality .hack//Liminality .hack//Liminality is the OVA series directly related to the .hack video game series for the PlayStation 2, with the perspective of Liminality focused on the real world as opposed to the games' MMORPG The World. Liminality was separated into four volumes; each volume was released with its... |
screenplay | |
| 2002 | .hack//Infection | story/script |
| 2002 | .hack//Mutation | story/script |
| 2002 | .hack//Outbreak | story/script |
| 2003 | .hack//Liminality .hack//Liminality .hack//Liminality is the OVA series directly related to the .hack video game series for the PlayStation 2, with the perspective of Liminality focused on the real world as opposed to the games' MMORPG The World. Liminality was separated into four volumes; each volume was released with its... |
screenplay |
| .hack//Legend of the Twilight .hack//Legend of the Twilight is a science fiction manga series written by Tatsuya Hamazaki and drawn by Rei Izumi. The twenty-two chapters of .hack//Legend of the Twilight appeared as a serial in the Japanese magazine Comptiq, and published in three tankōbon by Kadokawa Shoten from July 2002 to April 2004... |
characters | |
| .hack//Quarantine | story/script | |
| 2004 | .hack//Liminality .hack//Liminality .hack//Liminality is the OVA series directly related to the .hack video game series for the PlayStation 2, with the perspective of Liminality focused on the real world as opposed to the games' MMORPG The World. Liminality was separated into four volumes; each volume was released with its... |
screenplay |
| 2005 | Absolute Boy Absolute Boy is a 26-episode Japanese anime television series, produced by Ajia-do Animation Works and Bandai Visual, which first aired on NHK between May 21, 2005 and November 19, 2005... |
screenplay |
| 2005 | Digital Monster X-Evolution Digital Monster X-Evolution is the eighth Digimon film, and the first to air originally on Japanese television. It aired on January 3, 2005, at 7:15 a.m. UTC+9/JST on the Fuji TV network.... |
screenplay |
| 2006 | .hack//G.U. Vol.1//Rebirth | scenario supervisor |
| .hack//Roots .hack//Roots is a 26-episode anime series, animated by studio Bee Train, that sets as a prologue for the .hack//G.U. video games. It is the first .hack TV series broadcast in HDTV . It is set seven years after the events of the first two anime series and games... |
script supervisor | |
| .hack//G.U. Vol.2//Reminisce | scenario supervision | |
| .hack//G.U. Vol.3//Redemption (USA) | scenario supervision | |
External links
- Kazunori Ito official website - JapaneseJapanese languageis a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...