Skip to content
EntityQ720771· pop 29· linked from 199 articles

Mamoru Hosoda

Sign in to save

Also known as Hosoda Mamoru

Japanese anime director

Person · Open Library

Works
41

Top works

  • Scarlet
  • The Boy and the Beast Paperback - Loot Crate Edition
  • Wolf Children
  • Wicze dzieci 3
  • Wilcze dzieci 2

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
Belgium

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
41
Total plays
317

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Mamoru+Hosoda">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Mamoru Hosoda

Key facts

Born
( 1967-09-19 ) September 19, 1967 (age 58) , Kamiichi , Toyama , Japan
Other names
Hashimoto, Katsuyo ( 橋本 カツヨ ) Sodama, Moruho ( 遡玉 洩穂 ) Shirai, Chiaki ( 白井 千秋 )
Alma mater
Kanazawa College of Art
Occupations
Animator film director screenwriter storyboard artist novelist
Years active
1991–present
Employers
Toei Animation (1991–2005) Studio Chizu (2011–present)
Notable work
Digimon Adventure (1999) Digimon Adventure: Our War Game! (2000) The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) Summer Wars (2009) Wolf Children (2012) The Boy and the Beast (2015) Mirai (2018) Belle (2021) Scarlet (2025)

via Wikipedia infobox

~10 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Mamoru Hosoda (細田 守, Hosoda Mamoru; born September 19, 1967) is a Japanese filmmaker and animator. He is known for the short films that made up Digimon: The Movie (2000), The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) and Summer Wars (2009). He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Animated Feature Film at the 91st Academy Awards for his seventh film Mirai (2018).

Life and career

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mamoru Hosoda” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.