Yoshinobu Nishizaki (December 18 1934 - November 7, 2010) was a Japanese film director best known as one of the two co-creators of Space Battleship Yamato. He was born in 1934 and graduated from Nihon University Art Department.
Nishizaki, whose birth name was Hirofumi Nishizaki, established a company to produce music and visual works in 1972, and he then produced the Space Battleship Yamato television anime series in 1974. That space opera story launched a franchise that continued with several television series and a string of hit films.
Just last year, Nishizaki produced Space Battleship Yamato Resurrection (Uchuu Senkan Yamato Fukkatsu-hen), the first film in 26 years from the long-running franchise.
Nishizaki is also credited as a creator on the live-action Space Battleship Yamato, which just had private screenings in Tokyo and California this past week and will open in Japan next month. Nishizaki also planned the Maeterlinck's Blue Bird and Uchu Kubo Blue Noah television series, co-created Odin - Starlight Mutiny, and was a producer on Umi no Triton and Urotsukidoji.
(source: Anime News Network, Wikipedia)
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