Hiroyuki Morita

Hiroyuki Morita (森田 宏幸, Morita Hiroyuki, born June 26, 1964 in Fukuoka, Japan) is a Japanese animator and director knwon for the 2002 feature film The Cat Returns for Studio Ghibli and the anime adaptation of the Bokurano manga by Mohiro Kitoh.

Morita started his career as an animation check assistant on Akira, he later moved on to key animation on Lupin III.

He also served as a sequence director on Tenchi Forever! as well as key animator on My Neighbors the Yamadas and in-between animation on Kiki's Delivery Service.

Filmography

• Lupin III: Bye Bye Liberty Crisis (1989) - key animator
• Roujin Z (1991) - key animator
• Tobé! Kujira no Peek (1991) - key animator
• Hashire Melos! (1992) - key animator
• Junkers Come Here (1994) - key animator
• Tenchi the Movie: Tenchi Muyo in Love (1996) - key animator
• Spriggan (1998) - key animator
• Tenchi Forever! (1999) - unit director / key animator / storyboards / design cooperation
• My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999) - key animator
• Texhnolyze (2003) - key animator
• The Cat Returns (2002) - director / storyboards
• Koro's Big Day Out (2002) - key animator
• Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004) - key animator
• Tales from Earthsea (2006) - key animator
• Bokurano: Ours (2007) - director / storyboards
• Afro Samurai: Resurrection (2009) - key animator
• Doraemon: Nobita's Great Battle of the Mermaid King (2010) - key animator
• Doraemon: Nobita and the New Steel Troops: ~Angel Wings~ (2011) - key animator
• Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos (2011) - key animator

External links

• Hiroyuki Morita at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
• Hiroyuki Morita at the Internet Movie Database