Rintaro

Template:Nihongo is the pseudonym of Template:Nihongo, a well-known director of anime. He works frequently with the animation studio Madhouse (which he co-founded), though he is a freelance director not employed directly by any one studio. He began working in the animation industry—at age 17—as an in-between animator on the 1958 film Hakujaden. His works have won and been nominated for multiple awards, including a nomination for Best Film (Metropolis) at the 2001 Festival de Cine de Sitges.

Rintaro is a fan of science fiction, and has been influenced by American westerns, gangster films, film noir, and French films. Additionally, he was influenced by Osamu Tezuka, and worked with him on Kimba the White Lion and Astro Boy. He said that when he was making Metropolis, which was based on Tezuka's manga of the same name, he "wanted to communicate Tezuka's spirit". Rintaro personally introduced the film at the Big Apple Anime Fest in 2001, where it was screened before its theatrical release by TriStar Pictures.

Rintaro has also worked under the name Kuruma Hino, in addition to his best known pseudonym and his birth name. His pseudonym is sometimes miswritten as Rin Taro or Taro Rin. He is a founding member of the Japanese Animation Creators Association (JAniCA) labor group.

Biography

Rintaro was born in Tokyo. His first job in the animation industry was as an in-between animator on the 1958 film Hakujaden, which he worked on while working at Toei Animation. After working on two additional films there, he began working for Mushi Productions, the studio run by Osamu Tezuka. His first directing job was the fourth episode of the 1963 series Astro Boy. After leaving Mushi in 1971 to become a freelancer, he worked on many TV series and films, and established himself as one of the most respected and well-known anime directors in Japan.

In recent years, Rintaro has lectured at Kyoto Seika University.

In 2023, a short film directed by Rintaro, Yamanaka Sadao ni Sasageru Manga Eiga 'Nezumikozō JirokichiTemplate:', premiered at the 1st Niigata International Animation Film Festival.

Rintaro's brother, Masayuki Hayashi, is himself an anime director and animator with credits including Wandering Sun, Kimba the White Lion, Combattler V and several Tatsunoko productions including Kerokko Demetan, Dash Kappei, The Littl' Bits, and Okawari Boy Starzan S. Some sources, including The Anime Encyclopedia, erroneously claim that "Masayuki Hayashi" and "Rintaro" are one and the same.

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Director	Producer	Writer	Notes
1964	Mighty Atom, the Brave in Space	Template:Yes	Template:No	Template:Yes	As Shigeyuki Hayashi
1979	Galaxy Express 999	Template:Yes	Template:No	Template:No
1981	Adieu Galaxy Express 999	Template:Yes	Template:No	Template:No
1983	Harmagedon	Template:Yes	Template:No	Template:No
1985	The Dagger of Kamui	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:No
1986	Phoenix: Karma Chapter	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:No
	Toki no Tabibito: Time Stranger	Template:No	Template:Yes	Template:No
1996	X	Template:Yes	Template:No	Template:Yes
2000	Reign: The Conqueror	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:No	Co-directed with Yoshinori Kanemori
2001	Metropolis	Template:Yes	Template:No	Template:No
2009	Yona Yona Penguin	Template:Yes	Template:No	Template:No

Short films

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Notes
1978	Mystery of the Arcadia	Template:Yes	Template:No
1987	Labyrinth Labyrinthos	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Segment of Neo Tokyo
2023	Yamanaka Sadao ni Sasageru Manga Eiga 'Nezumikozō JirokichiTemplate:'	Template:Yes	Template:No

Original Video Animation

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Notes
1987	Take the X Train	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
1988	Bride of Deimos	Template:Yes	Template:No
	Matasaburo of the Winds	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
	Peacock King	Template:Yes	Template:No
1991	Doomed Megalopolis	Template:No	Template:Yes	Episode 4: "The Battle for Tokyo"; Also chief director
1992	Download: Devil's Circuit	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
1993	X² - Double X	Template:Yes	Template:No
1994	Spirit Warrior	Template:Yes	Template:No	2 episodes
	Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals	Template:Yes	Template:No	4 episodes
2002	Space Pirate Captain Herlock: The Endless Odyssey	Template:Yes	Template:No	13 episodes

TV series

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Notes
1963	Astro Boy	Template:Yes	Template:No	Episode "Don Tay's Infernal Machine"
1965-1967	Kimba the White Lion	Template:Yes	Template:No	10 episodes
1968	Wanpaku Tanteidan	Template:Yes	Template:No
	Sabu to Ichi Torimono Hikae	Template:Yes	Template:No	6 episodes
1969	Moomin	Template:Yes	Template:No
1972	New Moomin	Template:Yes	Template:No
1974	Hoshi no Ko Chobin	Template:Yes	Template:No
1975	Wanpaku Omukashi Kumu Kumu	Template:Yes	Template:No
1975-1977	Manga Nihon Mukashi Banashi	Template:Yes	Template:No	3 episodes; Co-directed with Mitsuo Kobayashi and Tsuneo Maeda
1976	UFO Warrior Dai Apolon	Template:Yes	Template:No	Episode "Invasion of the Demon Beast Bagladon from the Dark Nebula"
1977	Jetter Mars	Template:Yes	Template:No	27 episodes; Also producer
1977-1978	Arrow Emblem: Hawk of the Grand Prix	Template:Yes	Template:No	26 episodes
1978-1979	Space Pirate Captain Harlock	Template:Yes	Template:No	42 episodes
1980	Ganbare Genki	Template:Yes	Template:No	35 episodes
1982	Tiger Mask II	Template:Yes	Template:No	1 episode
	I Am a Cat	Template:Yes	Template:No	TV movie
1989	The Tezuka Osamu Story: I Am Son Goku	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	TV movie
	The New Adventures of Kimba The White Lion	Template:Yes	Template:No
1989-1990	Dragon Quest	Template:Yes	Template:No	15 episodes
2005	Manga Entertainment: The Art of Anime	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
2011	Wolverine	Template:Yes	Template:No	Episode "Mariko"; Co-directed with Hajime Ootani and Hiroshi Aoyama
2012	Lupin VIII	Template:Yes	Template:No	Pilot episode for a cancelled TV series. Released on home video in 2012.

Books

• Galaxy Express 999 movie Storyboard (映画「銀河鉄道999」絵コンテ帳). Fukkan.com, 2019.

External links

• Template:Anime News Network
• Template:IMDb name
• Template:In lang Rintaro page at Madhouse