Kenji Kodama

Kenji Kodama
こだま 兼嗣
Kenji Kodama at Japan Expo 2010
Born	(1949-12-13) December 13, 1949 Hokkaido, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Other names	Seiji Miyamoto
Occupation	Anime director
Known for	Case Closed City Hunter Lupin III Part III
Spouse	Sachiko Kamimura

Kenji Kodama (こだま 兼嗣, Kodama Kenji, December 13, 1949) is a Japanese anime director, and storyboard artist. He is best known for being one of the main directors on the long-running anime Case Closed, as well as the City Hunter series and Lupin III Part III. Kodama is also a member of the Japanese Animation Creators Association.

Background

Kodama is married to Sachiko Kamimura, a prominent animator in the same field.

Kodama has also worked as a storyboard artist in the 1970s and 1980s under the name Seiji Miyamoto.

Filmography

Anime

List of production work in anime

Year	Title	Crew role	Notes	Source
1984–85	Lupin III Part III	Production, Storyboards
1984–85	Cat's Eye	Chief director, director, storyboard	2nd TV series
1986	Robotan	Production	2nd TV series
1986–87	Bug tte Honey	Director, Continuity
1987–88	City Hunter	Chief director, director, storyboards
1988	City Hunter 2	Chief director, director, storyboards
1989	City Hunter: .357 Magnum	Director	film
1989–90	City Hunter 3	Director
1990	The Rose of Versailles	Director	1990 film
1990	City Hunter: Bay City Wars	Director	OVA
1990	City Hunter: Million Dollar Conspiracy	Director	OVA
1991	Reporter Blues	Director
1991–92	I and Myself: The Two Lottes	Director
1992–93	My Patrasche	Director
1996	City Hunter: The Secret Service	Director, Screenplay	TV special
1996–present	Case Closed	Director, General Director
1997	Case Closed: The Time Bombed Skyscraper	Director, Screenplay	film
1998	Case Closed: The Fourteenth Target	Director	film
1999	Case Closed: The Last Wizard of the Century	Director	film
2000	Case Closed: Captured in Her Eyes	Director	film
2001	Case Closed: Countdown to Heaven	Director	film
2002	Case Closed: The Phantom of Baker Street	Director	film
2003	Case Closed: Crossroad in the Ancient Capital	Director	film
2006	Kekkaishi	Director
2008	Tales of the Abyss	Director	Also OVA fan disc
	Black Jack	Storyboard
	Kamichu!	Storyboard

References

Book references

• Clements, Jonathan; McCarthy, Helen (2014). The Anime Encyclopedia, 3rd Revised Edition: A Century of Japanese Animation. Stone Bridge Press. 1200. ISBN 9781611729092.

External links

• Kenji Kodama at Anime News Network's encyclopedia