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Yuichiro Saito is a Japanese film producer. He is the founder and current president of Studio Chizu. Saito studied in the US. In 1999, he joined the animation studio Madhouse, where he participated in several animation projects led by Masao Maruyama. In 2004, Saito met Mamoru Hosada, eight years before they founded Studio Chizu. They worked together in the opening of Shinichiro Watanabe’s Samurai Champloo (2004). Wikipedia