About Hiroyuki Yamaga
Born 1962. Hiroyuki Yamaga is a Japanese film director, director, screenwriter and anime.
is a Japanese anime director and producer, and a founding member of the animation studio Gainax. He is best known for directing the film Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise at age 24, directing Mahoromatic (2001), Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi (2002), and an episode of Gurren Lagann (2007). Yamaga also wrote the screenplay for Gundam 0080 (1989).
He is portrayed by actor Tsuyoshi Muro in the 2014 TV Drama Aoi Honō based on the autobiographical manga by his fellow Osaka University of Arts alumnus Kazuhiko Shimamoto. Yamaga himself cameos in Episode 7 of the series, playing the owner of a restaurant where his fictional counterpart faints.
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Who is Hiroyuki Yamaga?
Japanese anime director and producer
When was Hiroyuki Yamaga born?
Hiroyuki Yamaga was born in 1962 in Niigata.
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Hiroyuki Yamaga is a film director, director, screenwriter and anime.
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Hiroyuki Yamaga is Japanese.
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