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Yutaka Izubuchi is a Director, Scriptwriter, Storyboard Artist, Costume Design and Mechanical Designer Japonais born on 8 december 1958 at Tokyo (Japon)

Yutaka Izubuchi

Yutaka Izubuchi
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Nationality Japon
Birth 8 december 1958 (65 years) at Tokyo (Japon)

Yutaka Izubuchi (出渕 裕, Izubuchi Yutaka, born August 12, 1958 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese anime designer and director. Izubuchi is credited for designing costumes, characters and creatures, but most of his designs are mechanical (both robots and other vehicles). He created and directed the RahXephon series and also created a manga story called Rune Masquer.

Among Izubuchi's design credits are the mecha from Panzer World Galient as well as some Gundam and Patlabor shows. He also created the Protect-Gear armor used in the Kerberos saga (Jin-Roh, etc.).

The ADV Films promotional materials for RahXephon and some reviews note that Gasaraki is an Izubuchi credit, but although he did mecha design on that show he was not responsible for writing or directing.

Izubuchi designed the costume for one of the characters of the Cutie Honey live action movie (2004), directed by Hideaki Anno of Neon Genesis Evangelion fame; earlier, Anno and Izubuchi (called "Bu-chan" by Anno) both had their mecha designs appear on Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (1988).

Izubuchi did some additional design work for Tomoki Kyoda's Eureka Seven. Kyoda was an assistant director and episode director on RahXephon and directed its theatrical adaptation.

Izubuchi's work also extends to tokusatsu, doing monster designs for Kagaku Sentai Dynaman, Choudenshi Bioman, Dengeki Sentai Changeman, and Choushinsei Flashman.

As of 2006, Izubuchi said that the design work he was most proud of was on WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3.

Izubuchi is the creative producer of Tetsuwan Birdy: Decode (2008).

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Filmography of Yutaka Izubuchi (9 films)

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Director

Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Odyssey of the Celestial Ark, 1h51
Directed by Yutaka Izubuchi
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Action, Animation
Themes Space opera
Actors Daisuke Ono, Kenichi Suzumura, Eriko Nakamura, Aya Hisakawa, Hōchū Ōtsuka, Junichi Suwabe
Rating70% 3.5200153.5200153.5200153.5200153.520015
Un nouvel ennemi menace l’humanité, asservissant ou détruisant toutes les planètes se trouvant sur sa route. L’histoire raconte le combat mené par l’équipage du Yamato pour empêcher le vaisseau spatial Gatlantis d’envahir la Terre. Cerné par les flottes du Gatlantis, le Yamato arrive toutefois à s’échapper et atteint une étrange planète…
RahXephon: Pluralitas Concentio, 1h55
Directed by Yutaka Izubuchi
Genres Science fiction, Animation
Themes Films about religion, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Hiro Shimono, Aya Hisakawa, Hirofumi Nojima, Jouji Nakata, Mitsuru Miyamoto, Yumi Kakazu
Rating60% 3.0449653.0449653.0449653.0449653.044965
Ayato Kamina and his classmate, Haruka "Reika Mishima", are in middle school and are a young couple, still dealing with some awkwardness. However, the sudden appearance of visitors from an alternate dimension, the "Mu", tears the two apart. All of Tokyo is enveloped in the giant hemispherical Absolute Barrier, which looks very similar to Jupiter, and they become separated into the world inside and the world outside.

Scriptwriter

Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Odyssey of the Celestial Ark, 1h51
Directed by Yutaka Izubuchi
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Action, Animation
Themes Space opera
Actors Daisuke Ono, Kenichi Suzumura, Eriko Nakamura, Aya Hisakawa, Hōchū Ōtsuka, Junichi Suwabe
Roles Writer
Rating70% 3.5200153.5200153.5200153.5200153.520015
Un nouvel ennemi menace l’humanité, asservissant ou détruisant toutes les planètes se trouvant sur sa route. L’histoire raconte le combat mené par l’équipage du Yamato pour empêcher le vaisseau spatial Gatlantis d’envahir la Terre. Cerné par les flottes du Gatlantis, le Yamato arrive toutefois à s’échapper et atteint une étrange planète…
RahXephon: Pluralitas Concentio, 1h55
Directed by Yutaka Izubuchi
Genres Science fiction, Animation
Themes Films about religion, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Hiro Shimono, Aya Hisakawa, Hirofumi Nojima, Jouji Nakata, Mitsuru Miyamoto, Yumi Kakazu
Roles Original Film Writer
Rating60% 3.0449653.0449653.0449653.0449653.044965
Ayato Kamina and his classmate, Haruka "Reika Mishima", are in middle school and are a young couple, still dealing with some awkwardness. However, the sudden appearance of visitors from an alternate dimension, the "Mu", tears the two apart. All of Tokyo is enveloped in the giant hemispherical Absolute Barrier, which looks very similar to Jupiter, and they become separated into the world inside and the world outside.
WXIII: Patlabor The Movie 3, 1h34
Directed by Fumihiko Takayama
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Animation
Themes Films about computing, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films set in the future, Cyberpunk films
Actors Hiroaki Hirata, Atsuko Tanaka, Masaru Ikeda, Takanobu Hozumi, Junpei Morita, Miina Tominaga
Roles Original Film Writer
Rating65% 3.2955653.2955653.2955653.2955653.295565
In 2000, a series of unknown attacks on Labors have led to two police detectives, Shinichiro Hata and Takeshi Kusumi, being assigned to investigate these string of events, assisted by members of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's SV2 unit.
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, 1h55
Directed by Tensai Okamura, Shin'ichirō Watanabe, Hiroyuki Okiura
Origin Japon
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Action, Animation, Western
Themes Space adventure films, Medical-themed films, Sports films, Films about terrorism, Mars in film, Films set in the future, Martial arts films, Films about viral outbreaks, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Space opera
Actors Kōichi Yamadera, Unshō Ishizuka, Steven Blum, Aoi Tada, Wendee Lee, Megumi Hayashibara
Roles Storyboard
Rating77% 3.8989053.8989053.8989053.8989053.898905
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie is set on Mars in the year 2071, forty-nine years after Earth was mostly abandoned after a catastrophe. Humanity has settled on other planets and moons in the solar system. The film's protagonists are legalized bounty hunters who travel together on the spaceship Bebop. They are Spike Spiegel, a former associate of the Red Dragon crime syndicate; Jet Black, a former police officer and owner of the Bebop; Faye Valentine, a woman who was once a fugitive from bounty hunters; Edward Wong (Ed for short), a girl with genius computer skills; and Ein, an artificial dog with human level intelligence.
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II, 1h48
Directed by Takao Okawara
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, La fin du monde, Kaiju films, Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, La préhistoire, Transport films, Animaux préhistoriques, Giant monster films, Godzilla films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Robot films, Disaster films
Actors Megumi Odaka, Masahiro Takashima, Shelley Sweeney, Akira Nakao, Kenji Sahara, Shinobu Nakayama
Roles Story
Rating65% 3.2607553.2607553.2607553.2607553.260755
In 1992, the United Nations establishes the United Nations Godzilla Countermeasures Center (UNGCC) to stop Godzilla. The remains of Mecha-King Ghidorah are salvaged from the ocean and used to create two anti-Godzilla machines. The first is a flying gunship called Garuda. The second and more powerful machine, modeled after Godzilla itself, is called Mechagodzilla.
Patlabor 2: The Movie, 1h53
Directed by Mamoru Oshii, Mizuho Nishikubo
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Animation
Themes Films about computing, Seafaring films, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Films set in the future, Political films, Cyberpunk films
Actors Ryūsuke Ōbayashi, Miina Tominaga, Toshio Furukawa, Shigeru Chiba, Yoshiko Sakakibara, Tomomichi Nishimura
Roles Original Film Writer
Rating74% 3.7437353.7437353.7437353.7437353.743735
Three years after the events of the first movie, Noa Izumi and Asuma Shinohara are now testing new Labors at a facility run by the Metropolitan Police. Isao Ota is a police academy Labor instructor. Mikiyasu Shinshi has since been reassigned as the Tokyo Metropolitan Police's head of General Affairs. Seitaro Sakaki has retired with Shigeo Shiba taking over his position as head of the labor maintenance team with Hiromi Yamazaki, Kiichi Goto and Shinobu Nagumo remaining with the unit as Kanuka Clancy had permanently returned to New York. Most of them had been replaced by fresh labor pilots.
Patlabor: The Movie, 1h38
Directed by Mamoru Oshii, Koji Sawai
Genres Science fiction, Action, Animation
Themes Films about computing, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films set in the future, Cyberpunk films
Actors Shigeru Chiba, Miina Tominaga, Ryūsuke Ōbayashi, Toshio Furukawa, Yoshiko Sakakibara, Yō Inoue
Roles Original Film Writer
Rating69% 3.497313.497313.497313.497313.49731
Set in 1999, Tokyo is undergoing a huge re-development program: old suburbs are being demolished and man-made islands are being constructed in Tokyo Bay under the Babylon Project. Dominating the scene is the "Ark," a huge man-made island that serves at the Project's nerve center and chief Labor manufacturing facility.

Art

Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Odyssey of the Celestial Ark, 1h51
Directed by Yutaka Izubuchi
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Action, Animation
Themes Space opera
Actors Daisuke Ono, Kenichi Suzumura, Eriko Nakamura, Aya Hisakawa, Hōchū Ōtsuka, Junichi Suwabe
Roles Storyboard Artist
Rating70% 3.5200153.5200153.5200153.5200153.520015
Un nouvel ennemi menace l’humanité, asservissant ou détruisant toutes les planètes se trouvant sur sa route. L’histoire raconte le combat mené par l’équipage du Yamato pour empêcher le vaisseau spatial Gatlantis d’envahir la Terre. Cerné par les flottes du Gatlantis, le Yamato arrive toutefois à s’échapper et atteint une étrange planète…
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, 1h55
Directed by Tensai Okamura, Shin'ichirō Watanabe, Hiroyuki Okiura
Origin Japon
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Action, Animation, Western
Themes Space adventure films, Medical-themed films, Sports films, Films about terrorism, Mars in film, Films set in the future, Martial arts films, Films about viral outbreaks, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Space opera
Actors Kōichi Yamadera, Unshō Ishizuka, Steven Blum, Aoi Tada, Wendee Lee, Megumi Hayashibara
Roles Storyboard Artist
Rating77% 3.8989053.8989053.8989053.8989053.898905
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie is set on Mars in the year 2071, forty-nine years after Earth was mostly abandoned after a catastrophe. Humanity has settled on other planets and moons in the solar system. The film's protagonists are legalized bounty hunters who travel together on the spaceship Bebop. They are Spike Spiegel, a former associate of the Red Dragon crime syndicate; Jet Black, a former police officer and owner of the Bebop; Faye Valentine, a woman who was once a fugitive from bounty hunters; Edward Wong (Ed for short), a girl with genius computer skills; and Ein, an artificial dog with human level intelligence.

Costume and makup

Cutie Honey, 1h34
Directed by Hideaki Anno, Shingo Araki
Origin Japon
Genres Martial arts, Comedy, Action, Martial arts
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films
Actors Eriko Sato, Jun Murakami, Mayumi Shintani, Ryō Kase, Kyūsaku Shimada, Suzuki Matsuo
Roles Costume Design
Rating62% 3.100523.100523.100523.100523.10052
Honey Kisaragi, modeste employée de bureau très naïve, est en fait une gynoïde capable de se transformer en Cutie Honey, la Guerrière de l'Amour. Quand Sister Jill et son organisation criminelle Panther Claws apparaît, Cutie Honey s'oppose à elle. Elle sera aidée par une inspectrice, et un mystérieux journaliste.

Visual effects

WXIII: Patlabor The Movie 3, 1h34
Directed by Fumihiko Takayama
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Animation
Themes Films about computing, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films set in the future, Cyberpunk films
Actors Hiroaki Hirata, Atsuko Tanaka, Masaru Ikeda, Takanobu Hozumi, Junpei Morita, Miina Tominaga
Roles Mechanical Designer
Rating65% 3.2955653.2955653.2955653.2955653.295565
In 2000, a series of unknown attacks on Labors have led to two police detectives, Shinichiro Hata and Takeshi Kusumi, being assigned to investigate these string of events, assisted by members of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's SV2 unit.
Patlabor 2: The Movie, 1h53
Directed by Mamoru Oshii, Mizuho Nishikubo
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Animation
Themes Films about computing, Seafaring films, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Films set in the future, Political films, Cyberpunk films
Actors Ryūsuke Ōbayashi, Miina Tominaga, Toshio Furukawa, Shigeru Chiba, Yoshiko Sakakibara, Tomomichi Nishimura
Roles Mechanical Designer
Rating74% 3.7437353.7437353.7437353.7437353.743735
Three years after the events of the first movie, Noa Izumi and Asuma Shinohara are now testing new Labors at a facility run by the Metropolitan Police. Isao Ota is a police academy Labor instructor. Mikiyasu Shinshi has since been reassigned as the Tokyo Metropolitan Police's head of General Affairs. Seitaro Sakaki has retired with Shigeo Shiba taking over his position as head of the labor maintenance team with Hiromi Yamazaki, Kiichi Goto and Shinobu Nagumo remaining with the unit as Kanuka Clancy had permanently returned to New York. Most of them had been replaced by fresh labor pilots.