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Toshihiko Masuda profile
Director

Toshihiko Masuda

Visual Effects

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Directed movies: 4Directed series: 4All crew credits: 158

TMDB ID: 34928

IMDb ID: nm0557926

Known for: Visual Effects

Born: April 14, 1960

Age: 65

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1971 - 2025

Years active: 55

Average TMDB rating: 7.5

Wikidata: Q17222481

Also known as

Toshihiku Masuda • 増田俊彦 • 増田としひこ • 増田 敏彦

Frequent jobs

Animation Director (4)Director (4)Key Animation (123)Storyboard Artist (24)Character Designer (2)Writer (1)

Biography

Born in 1960, Toshihiko Masuda was one of the major directors at Telecom Animation Film. He joined Telecom in 1980 as a in-between animator and became a director in 1983, taking over Hayao Miyazaki's unit after he left to go work at Topcraft to do Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. Masuda is known for his wacky and fluid animation, and is the one who set the style in Telecom's western productions in the '80s and '90s. He now works as a freelance animator and storyboard artist working on a plethora of different anime projects.

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