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Atsushi Okui (奥井敦 , Okui Atsushi, born in 1963 in Shimane, Japan), also went by the pseudonym おくいあつし, is a Japanese director of photography for animation. He first worked at Asahi Production before moving to Studio Ghibli in 1993. He has since been involved in nearly every major Ghibli feature film and animated short until the production studio was shut down in 2014. He has ...
As The Boy and the Heron swoops into cinemas, Gemma Gracewood explores horror, heron behavior and how to live with Hayao Miyazaki’s longtime cinematographer, Atsushi Okui. Plus: an update from Studio Ghibli on Miyazaki’s daily routine.
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Dec 11, 2023 · The Boy and the Heron (Hayao Miyazaki, 2023) Though not a household name like directors Hayao Miyazaki and the late Isao Takahata, Atsushi Okui has been the cinematographer on almost every Studio Ghibli feature and short since 1992’s Porco Rosso. As the artist responsible for coordinating the process of translating storyboards into moving ...
Dec 5, 2023 · ATSUSHI OKUI: There weren’t any specific directions that Miyazaki-san gave to me for this film in particular. But having gone through his storyboard, there were a few suggestions that I had to ...
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Jan 16, 2024 · Atsushi Okui, for instance, has been the director of photography for films at Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli since 1992. “I’ve worked on a lot of films with Miyazaki, and each time the most important job is creating something that matches what’s inside of his head,” Okui told Gemma Gracewood at Letterboxd.
Dec 12, 2023 · One of the less public-facing key talents at the most publicly scrutinized animation studio in the world, cinematographer Atsushi Okui joined Studio Ghibli in 1993 and has worked on nearly every film from legendary director Hayao Miyazaki since, among them Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, and his first feature in a decade, The Boy and the
Dec 8, 2023 · But the sequence is a result of more than just Miyazaki’s handiwork. “That scene was, of course, not done by one single animator,” The Boy and the Heron cinematographer Atsushi Okui tells ...
