Mamoru Hosoda

Hosoda Mamoru (Japanese: Hosoda Mamoru/ Protect, Romanized: Hosoda Mamoru, September 19, 1967 -) is an animation director born in Kami-machi, Naka Shinkawa-gun, Toyama Prefecture, Japan. He is also a member of the Japan Animation Producers Association. Graduated from Kanazawa University of Arts and Crafts. In his early days, he worked as an animator at Toei Animation and was promoted to director. He once participated in the production of the Studio Ghibli animated film "Howl's Moving Castle", and later left Ghibli and returned to Toei Animation. In 2005, Mamoru Hosoda joined MADHOUSE. In 2007, he released an adaptation of Tsutsui Yasutaka's science fiction novel "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" and his first feature-length animated film "Jump!" "Time and Space Girls" became famous in Japan and overseas. After that, he began to produce his own original story works, and published "Summer Wars" in 2009. In 2011, he left MADHOUSE to found Map Studio, and published important masterpieces such as "Wolf's Children Rain and Snow" in 2012 and "Monster's Children" in 2015. The animated film "Future Future" directed by him in 2018 was nominated for the Best Animated Film Award at the 91st Academy Awards, becoming the first Japanese animated feature film nominated outside the Studio Ghibli team. The 2021 animated film "The Dragon and the Freckled Princess" has also received widespread response from the international film community and was shortlisted for five awards at the 49th Annie Awards. A new generation of animators known as the "new generation of Japanese animation masters". Mamoru Hosoda's works have a fantasy or science fiction style, often depicting emotional descriptions including family love.