Kenji Kamiyama

Kenji Kamiyama is a Japanese director and scriptwriter, known for his work on the TV series Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.

Works

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

A sudden attack by Wulf, a clever and traitorous lord of Rohan seeking vengeance for the death of his father, forces Helm Hammerhand, the King of Rohan, and his people to make a daring last stand in the ancient stronghold of the Hornburg.

Release Date: 2024-12-05

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 547

Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 The Last Human

In 2045, amidst an economic disaster and the rapid evolution of AI in a world where sustainable warfare is on the rise, Public Security Section 9, led by Motoko Kusanagi, arrives in Tokyo to confront the "post-human" Takashi Shimamura and prevent the looming threat of nuclear war. A compilation film with newly added footage.

Release Date: 2023-11-23

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 2

Eternal 831

In the present day, the world is in turmoil due to an "unprecedented disaster." A young man living in Tokyo, Suzushirō, has a secret he cannot tell anyone. That secret is that he can stop the time around him despite his thoughts. One day, he meets a girl named Nazuna who has the same "power". When he learns that she is being used in a crime, he impulsively reaches out to help her.

Release Date: 2022-03-18

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 24

Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 Sustainable War

In the year 2045, after an economic disaster known as the Synchronized Global Default, rapid developments in AI propelled the world to enter a state of "Sustainable War". However, the public is not aware of the threat that AI has towards the human race. A compilation film with newly added footage.

Release Date: 2021-12-21

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 55

Blade Runner: Black Lotus

Los Angeles 2032. A young woman wakes up with no memories, and possessing deadly skills. The only clues to her mystery are a locked data device and a tattoo of a black lotus. Putting together the pieces, she must hunt down the people responsible for her brutal and bloody past to find the truth of her lost identity.

Release Date: 2021-11-14

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: Self - Co-Director

Episode Count: 13

Vote Count: 210

Star Wars: Visions

This anthology of animated shorts from around the world celebrates the mythos of Star Wars through unique cultural lenses.

Release Date: 2021-09-22

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 387

Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045

After a global financial crisis, the world is engulfed in an AI-driven "sustainable war." It's up to Section 9 to counter new forms of cyber threats.

Release Date: 2020-04-23

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 12

Vote Count: 128

Enter the Anime

What is anime? Through deep-dives with notable masterminds of this electrifying genre, this fast-paced documentary seeks to find the answers.

Release Date: 2019-08-05

Character: Self

Vote Count: 74

Salvation

Release Date: 2019-03-20

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Ancien and the Magic Tablet: Another Story

This is the story that always appears in the dreams of Kokone, who eventually becomes a high school student. What is the secret hidden in the fairy tale that Kokoneheard as a young boy? And then, what is this secret entrusted to his father Momotaro's mind? This movie depicts the adventures of the main character, high school student Morikawa Kokone, who appears in the dreams of another main character, Yasue, another nap princess.

Release Date: 2017-07-12

Department: Writing

Job: Original Story

Napping Princess

Japan, 2020, a few days before the opening of the Tokyo Olympics. Although she should be studying for her final exams, Kokone, a schoolgirl who lives in a small town with her widowed father, a mysterious and talented mechanic, falls asleep often, anywhere, anytime, entering, over and over, a dream-world where a squad of fantastic motorized contraptions fights against magic, a world close to reality where she will find out the keys of her true past.

Release Date: 2017-03-18

Department: Writing

Job: Original Story

Vote Count: 123

Cyborg 009: Call of Justice

Years after taking up normal lives incognito, the cyborgs are forced to fight again when the superhumans known as the Blessed appear with a plan for humanity.

Release Date: 2017-02-10

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 12

Vote Count: 7

Cyborg 009: Call of Justice 3

The story will depict Joe Shimamura and the other cyborgs' struggle with the Bresudo, a group of people who possess superhuman powers and intellect, and have manipulated human history since ancient times. Their goals are unknown, and they cast a dark shadow over the world. Though few people believe in the Bresdo's existence, one American journalist named Lucie Davenport heads to Texas to contact a certain family, and she meets the cyborgs. The cyborgs themselves have been freed from their duty of protecting humanity ever since the establishment of the UN Guardian troops, and they now live quiet lives of peace.

Release Date: 2016-12-09

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 2

Cyborg 009: Call of Justice 2

Release Date: 2016-12-02

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 2

Cyborg 009: Call of Justice 1

Release Date: 2016-11-25

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 4

Haikyu!!

Inspired by a small-statured pro volleyball player, Shouyou Hinata creates a volleyball team in his last year of middle school. Unfortunately the team is matched up against the "King of the Court" Tobio Kageyama's team in their first tournament and inevitably lose. After the crushing defeat, Hinata vows to surpass Kageyama. After entering high school, Hinata joins the volleyball team only to find that Tobio has also joined.

Release Date: 2014-04-06

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Opening/Ending Animation

Episode Count: 13

Vote Count: 1393

A.U.F.L. : au Unlimited Future Laboratory

The short takes place at the KDDI R&D laboratory, where scientists are creating a telephone that can call the future, but an incident occurs when they are using the phone.

Release Date: 2013-12-11

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 3

009 Re:Cyborg

009 Re:Cyborg follows a group of nine cyborgs, each of them created by a shadowy organization for use as weapons against humanity. The group turns on their creators to protect the population instead, using the powers given them to fight their creators.

Release Date: 2012-10-27

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 101

Xi AVANT

Short anime screened in theaters with the stereoscopic 3D conversion of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society movie. The story of Xi Avant is set in Spain and other locales in the near future, and it is tied to the NTT Docomo mobile phone network's next-generation Xi service.

Release Date: 2011-03-26

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 5

009: The Reopening

A short 3D CGI anime of Cyborg 009 directed by Mamoru Oshii.

Release Date: 2010-10-05

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 3

Eden of the East Movie II: Paradise Lost

Accused of terrorism and feeling the heat, Saki's high-tech crew is in the crosshairs. Meanwhile, the shroud of mystery covering Takizawa is lifted as he and his fellow Selecao make their final moves. Every game must come to an end. For those playing Mr. Outside's twisted game of conspiracy thrills, the end comes now.

Release Date: 2010-03-13

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 61

Eden of the East Movie I: The King of Eden

Takizawa prevented Japan's destruction - and then he vanished. Six months later, clues lead Saki to the Big Apple in search of her missing friend. Meanwhile, the remaining Selecao are plotting their final move. Some of them would prefer Takizawa dead and out of the way. Some might even be willing to help him achieve his goals. Unfortunately, some are prepared to destroy everything if it means claiming checkmate in Mr. Outside's puzzling game.

Release Date: 2009-11-28

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 71

Eden of the East: Air Communication

A re-editing of the 11 television episodes of popular anime Higashi no Eden into a feature-length film.

Release Date: 2009-09-26

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 23

Eden of the East

When Saki Morimi gets into trouble with the police while in Washington D.C., she is helped by a Japanese man who calls himself, Akira Takizawa. Akira has only two things, a gun and a cell phone loaded with 8.2 billion yen in digital money.

Release Date: 2009-04-09

Department: Directing

Job: Series Director

Episode Count: 11

Vote Count: 107

The Women of Fast Food

"Tachiguishi", that is to say, grifters who make it their profession to "eat-and-run", was created by the world-famous filmmaker, Mamoru Oshii. In 2006, he directed "Tachigui -- the Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters", a feature film which was made using a new technique called superlive-mation. It combined fact and fiction to tell daring stories of professional grifters, leaving viewers with a feeling of nostalgia for the Showa era. Following that, another movie has been completed. This new live-action film, "Eat and Run - 6 Beautiful Grifters" was made with the objective of filming its main actresses as beautifully as possible. The film is made up of six episodes directed by five different directors who rose to the challenge, two of which star Oshii himself.

Release Date: 2007-11-10

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 2

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society

The story takes place in the year 2034, two years after the events in Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG. Female cyborg Major Motoko Kusanagi has left Public Security Section 9, an elite counter-terrorist and anti-crime unit specializing in cyber-warfare, which has expanded to a team of 20 field operatives with Togusa acting as the field lead.

Release Date: 2007-09-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 263

Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit

Balsa the spearwoman is a wandering warrior, who takes on the task of saving lives, in atonement for a past sin. On her journey, she happens to save a prince, and is tasked with becoming his bodyguard. And he is going to need one, for his own father, the emperor, wants him dead. Throughout the story, Balsa's past will come to light and they will uncover mysteries about Chagum's condition while developing a family-like relationship with each other and others.

Release Date: 2007-04-07

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 26

Vote Count: 57

Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters

Tachigui retells Japan's history from 1945 to 21st century through the feats of self-proclaimed dine and dash professionals - the Fast Food Grifters are the phantoms that rise and fall with the shifting diet-styles. They are the dissenting heroes who carved their names on the dark side of dietary culture with their glare. Now their legend revives, strong as ever...

Release Date: 2006-04-08

Character: Manager Kamiyama (voice)

Vote Count: 13

Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG - Individual Eleven

The year is 2030. Six months passed since the Laughing Man Incident was solved. About 3 million refugees are living in Japan, invited to fill the labor shortage. However, the emergent presence of the invited-refugees intensified their confrontation with the "Individualists", who called for national isolation, which then led to the increased incidences of terrorist attacks. Under these circumstances, a terrorist group called the Individual Eleven carries out a suicide attack. But there was a greater scheme behind their action. When Section 9 learns this, they attempt to nail down the mastermind of the incident. Meanwhile, Kuze, a surviving member of the Individual Eleven, becomes a charismatic leader of the invited-refugees and intensifies the confrontation against the government. And Motoko starts feeling a strange sense of fate connecting her with Kuze...

Release Date: 2006-01-27

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 111

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man

The year is 2030 and six years have passed since a criminal known only as "The Laughing Man" swept through top medical nanotechnology firms committing acts of cyber-terrorism, kidnapping, and espionage leaving no known suspects. New information is revealed, as Section 9 enters the hunt for a suspect capable of unfathomable actions in this compilation of Stand Alone Complex content.

Release Date: 2005-09-23

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 127

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

In the future when technological enhancements and robotics are a way of life, Major Motoko Kusanagi and Section 9 take care of the jobs that are too difficult for the police. Section 9 employs hackers, sharpshooters, detectives and cyborgs all in an effort to thwart cyber criminals and their plans to attack the innocent.

Release Date: 2002-10-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 25

Vote Count: 385

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Section-9

The Minister of Foreign Affairs behaves strange after a hostage situation in a restaurant. Section 9 is sent to investigate.

Release Date: 2002-10-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

MiniPato: Mobile Police Patlabor Minimum

Unlike most shows the three episodes are not only totally unrelated to each other but really don't follow a plot as such and are more a light-hearted jibe at both the Patlabor series (TV and films) and other "mecha" Anime. Episode 1 is a brief introduction to the weaponry carried by the Ingram and how it was designed and why it is the way it is. Episode 2 looks at the design and maintenance of the Ingram 98 AV in SVU2 and takes a swipe at the marketing forces behind them (as in merchandising for the series). Episode 3 is the only one to attempt to expand on a very minor point raised in the original TV show and just how SVU2 is actually funded.

Release Date: 2002-03-30

Department: Visual Effects

Job: Animation Director

Episode Count: 3

Blood: The Last Vampire

In Japan, the vampire-hunter Saya, who is a powerful original, is sent by her liaison with the government, David, posed as a teenage student to the Yokota High School on the eve of Halloween to hunt down vampires. Saya asks David to give a new katana to her. Soon she saves the school nurse Makiho Amano from two vampires disguised of classmates and Makiho witnesses her fight against the powerful demon.

Release Date: 2000-11-18

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 344

Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the suicide bombing of a young girl and is forced to undergo retraining. However, unbeknownst to him, he becomes a key player in a dispute between rival police divisions, as he finds himself increasingly involved with the sister of the girl he saw die.

Release Date: 1999-11-17

Department: Directing

Job: Second Unit Director

Vote Count: 504

Medabots

Set in the near future, Medabots revolves around the super charged battling adventures of a group of kids and their pet robots. Fueled with artificial intelligence and a specialized arsenal of high powered weapons, Medabots compete against each other in exciting Robattles, with the winners acquiring Medaparts from the defeated Medabot. With over 370 unique robots ready to Robattle, Medabots is filled with explosive adventures in a world where kids have the ultimate power. But more than anything else, these challenges are about courage and mind power, where the soul of the Medafighter and Medabot combine to emerge victorious.

Release Date: 1999-07-02

Department: Art

Job: Storyboard Artist

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 178

Calico Cat Holmes and the Lord of the Haunted Castle

Based on Akagawa Jirou's popular book series about hapless detective Katayama Yoshitaro who lives with his sister Harumi and their cat Holmes, which has a sixth sense when it comes to solve mysteries. In this stand alone OVA the aftershow party of Harumi's acting troupe becomes the showplace of murder and tragedy. Luckily Yoshitaro brought Holmes along.

Release Date: 1992-07-21

Department: Art

Job: Art Direction

Vote Count: 1

Silent Möbius

In a futuristic Tokyo, several policewomen fight a monster. One of them, Katsumi Liqueur, remembers where she saw it before... Katsumi Liqueur, an American-born woman of Japanese descent, travels to Tokyo to visit her mother, Fuyuka, who is sick in the hospital. She takes a shortcut through an alley after her taxi gets stuck in traffic, only to encounter a monster and two policewomen fighting it. Later, she meets their chief, Rally Cheyenne, who, it seems, has been expecting her, though Katsumi has never met her before. The policewomen want Katsumi to help them fight the monster, but Katsumi, who does not want to believe in magic, resists.

Release Date: 1991-01-07

Department: Art

Job: Art Designer

Vote Count: 12