Which Japanese video game director and producer started his career at Capcom and collaborated with Goichi Suda to create Shadows of the Damned?
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Shadows of the Damned Shadows of the Damned (Japanese: シャドウ オブ ザ ダムド , Hepburn: Shadō obu za Damudo ) is an action video game developed by Grasshopper Manufacture and published by Electronic Arts for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 video game consoles. The game follows the story of Garcia Hotspur, a Mexican demon hunter who goes to the City of the Damned to battle its evils in order to save his true love. The game is the result of collaboration between Goichi Suda and Shinji Mikami, and combined the styles of the two designers, namely the "punk rock" edge of the former and the "psychological action thriller" of the latter.
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Shinji Mikami Shinji Mikami (Japanese: 三上 真司 , Hepburn: Mikami Shinji , born August 11, 1965) is a Japanese video game director and producer. Starting his career at Capcom in 1990, he went on to direct many of the company's biggest titles. He directed the first installment of the survival horror series "Resident Evil" in 1996 and the first installment of "Dino Crisis" in 1999. He returned to Resident Evil to direct the remake of the first game in 2002. He returned to direct third person shooter "Resident Evil 4" in 2005. The last game he directed at Capcom was 2006's God Hand, a third person brawler. He then worked with PlatinumGames to direct the third person shooter "Vanquish" in 2010. After that he started his own studio called Tango Gameworks. Under that company he directed the third person horror game "The Evil Within". The company has since been acquired by the American company ZeniMax Media.
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Naoki Yoshida Naoki Yoshida (吉田 直樹 , Yoshida Naoki , born May 1, 1973) , also known by the nickname "Yoshi-P," is a Japanese video game producer, director and designer working for Square Enix. He is known primarily for his work on massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), as chief planner on "Dragon Quest X", and as director and producer of "". He is credited with rescuing the original "Final Fantasy XIV" project from its disastrous launch. Yoshida is an Executive Officer at Square Enix, the Head of Square Enix's Business Division 5 and part of the "Final Fantasy" Committee that is tasked with keeping the franchise's releases and content consistent.
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Forgotten Worlds Forgotten Worlds, originally titled Lost Worlds (Japanese: ロストワールド ) in Japan, is a side-scrolling shoot-'em-up game by Capcom originally released as a coin-operated video game in 1988 . It is notable for being the first title released by Capcom for their CP System arcade game hardware. The game took two years to develop, with a production budget of $5 million, equivalent to $10.2 million in 2016.
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Kenichi Yatani Kenichi Yatani (八谷 賢一 , Yatani Ken'ichi ) is a Japanese animation director.
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Shinkiro Toshiaki Mori (森 気楼 , Mori Toshiaki , born December 14, 1962) , best known under the pen name of Shinkiro (森気楼 , Shinkirō ) , is a Japanese illustrator and conceptual artist currently employed by Capcom.
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Ju-On (franchise) Ju-On (呪怨 , Juon , lit. "Curse Grudge", also known as The Grudge) is a Japanese horror franchise created by Takashi Shimizu, consisting of 12 feature films. Shimizu attended the Film School of Tokyo, where he studied under Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Kurosawa helped Shimizu shepherd the "Ju-On" projects to fruition.
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Akira Suzuki (director) Akira Suzuki (すずき あきら , Suzuki Akira ) , also releasing works under the pseudonym Doitsu Suzuki (鈴木 ドイツ , Suzuki Doitsu ) , is a Japanese film, anime and manga author, director and editor. He is born in Sapporo, Hokkaidō. He has worked on "", "Ranma ½", "Kodocha", "Maze", "Daltanius", "Trider G7", and "Sailor Suit and Machine Gun", and the films "Voice Without a Shadow", "Eight Hours of Terror", "Virus", "Minbo" and "Nankyoku Monogatari". He works with labels HJ Bunko and MF Bunko J. Suzuki directed the movie "Ranma ½: Ni Hao My Concubine".
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Resident Evil: Damnation Resident Evil: Damnation, known as "Biohazard: Damnation" (バイオハザード ダムネーション , Baiohazādo: Damunēshon ) in Japan, is a 2012 Japanese feature-length 3D animated biopunk horror action film by Capcom and Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan, directed by Makoto Kamiya and produced by Hiroyuki Kobayashi. It is a sequel to "" and prequel to videogame Resident Evil 6. The movie was released on October 27, 2012 in Japan, premièring in Shinjuku, Tokyo.
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Akira Yasuda Akira Yasuda (安田 朗 , Yasuda Akira ) (born July 21, 1964) is a Japanese animator, character designer, game designer and mecha designer, who works under the pen name "Akiman". Yasuda was formerly an employee of the video game company Capcom (joining in 1985) and has worked on many Capcom games, taking on various design roles for works such as the "Final Fight" series and "" (including their updates) under the pen name Akiman. He has also been involved in anime production, most notably "∀ Gundam," "Overman King Gainer" and "Code Geass". He officially left Capcom in 2003 and started working as a freelance artist.
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Ryūtarō Nakamura Ryūtarō Nakamura (中村 隆太郎 , Nakamura Ryūtarō , April 15, 1955 – June 29, 2013) was a Japanese director and animator, best known for directing the landmark anime series "Serial Experiments Lain", and for his collaboration with Masamune Shirow and Chiaki J. Konaka on "Ghost Hound".
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FromSoftware FromSoftware, Inc. (株式会社フロム・ソフトウェア , Kabushikigaisha Furomu Sofutowea ) is a Japanese video game company founded in November 1986. The company is known primarily outside Japan for being the developers of the "Armored Core" and "Souls" series, as well as "Bloodborne".
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Katsuji Morishita Katsuji Morishita (森下 勝司 , Morishita Katsuji ) is an animation producer for Production I.G. He was responsible for overseeing the hand-drawn anime sequences in "Kill Bill Volume 1". Morishita also produced an anime by the name of "Dead Leaves". Currently, he's expected to be president of new I.G Port animation subsidiary, SIGNAL.MD.
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Banshee's Last Cry Banshee's Last Cry, known in Japan as Kamaitachi no Yoru (Japanese: かまいたちの夜 , "The Night of the Sickle Weasel") is a visual novel video game developed and published by Chunsoft (later Spike Chunsoft). The game was first released in Japan for the Super Famicom on November 25, 1994, and has since been ported to PlayStation, Game Boy Advance, PC, and mobile phones. An English localized version (including changes to the setting and character names) of the game was translated by Jeremy Blaustein and released by Aksys Games on January 24, 2014 for iOS, with a release on Android devices to follow. The story-line was written by Takemaru Abiko and production was directed by Kazuya Asano and Kōichi Nakamura.
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Nobuyuki Inoue Nobuyuki Inouie (井上信行 , Inouie Nobuyuki ) is a video game director, and the chief director of Brownie Brown. He first became a developer when he took a job with Square as a debugger on the Game Boy game "Final Fantasy Legend II". He first did work as a scenario designer in the Super Famicom game "Live a Live". He was also involved in games in the "Mana" series, including "Legend of Mana".
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Nude Maker Nude Maker Co., Ltd. (Japanese: 株式会社ヌードメーカー , Hepburn: Kabushikigaisha nūdomēkā ) is a Japanese video game developer based in Tokyo, Japan. The company is composed mostly of ex-Human Entertainment members, including Hifumi Kono, who directed the first two titles in the "Clock Tower" series of horror games. Nude Maker has been contracted by companies including Capcom, ELF Corporation, Grasshopper Manufacture, and Sega.
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Hideo Baba Hideo Baba (Japanese: 馬場 英雄) is a Japanese video game producer and president of the game development company, Studio Istolia. He formerly worked at Namco Bandai Studios where he was hired by them before their merge to be primarily involved with the production of the "Tales of" video games. He joined Namco in 2001. From "Tales of Innocence" (2007), he was the brand manager and the producer of the "Tales of" video game series.
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Hideki Sakamoto Hideki Sakamoto (坂本 英城 , Sakamoto Hideki , born November 14, 1972) is a video game music composer who has contributed songs to the soundtracks of "Echochrome", "Yakuza 2", and "". He serves as the representative director of Noisycroak, a Tokyo-based sound design company focused on game soundtracks.
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Tomonobu Itagaki Tomonobu Itagaki (板垣 伴信 , Itagaki Tomonobu ) (born April 1, 1967) is a Japanese video game designer best known for creating the "Dead or Alive" series and also reviving the "Ninja Gaiden" franchise in 2004. Joining Tecmo in 1992, Itagaki produced two video game franchises that were commercial successes and earned him several promotions; he headed Tecmo's development team, Team Ninja, and sat on the executive board. He left the company after 16 years of service, filing a lawsuit against it for withholding bonus pay. His new team at Valhalla Game Studios, comprising other Team Ninja members, worked on a new game, "Devil's Third".
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Masahiko Ohta Masahiko Ohta (太田雅彦 , Ōta Masahiko ) is a Japanese anime director.
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Mega Man (video game) Mega Man, known as Rockman (ロックマン , Rokkuman ) in Japan, is a 1987 action-platform video game developed and published by Capcom for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). It was directed by Akira Kitamura, with Nobuyuki Matsushima as lead programmer, and is the first game of the "Mega Man" franchise and the original video game series. "Mega Man" was produced by a small team specifically for the home console market, a first for Capcom, who previously focused on arcade titles.
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Music of Xenosaga The "Xenosaga" (ゼノサーガ ) series is a series of science fiction role-playing video games developed by Monolith Soft and published by Namco Bandai on the PlayStation 2. The series began with the 2002 release of "Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht", which was followed in 2004 by "Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse" and in 2006 by "Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra". The music of "Xenosaga" includes the soundtracks to all three chapters, as well as the music for its spin-off media. These include "Xenosaga Freaks", a set of minigames set between the first two chapters, "Xenosaga I & II", a Nintendo DS remake of the first two chapters, and "Xenosaga: The Animation", an anime series covering the events of the first game. "Episode I" was composed by Yasunori Mitsuda, "Episode II" was split between Yuki Kajiura and Shinji Hosoe, and "Episode III" was composed by Kajiura alone. "Xenosaga Freaks" reused some of the music of "Episode I" by Mitsuda while also including new work by Satoru Kousaki and Hiroshi Ohkubo, while "Xenosaga I & II" and "Xenosaga: The Animation" used new pieces composed by Kousuke Yamashita.