Koji Tanaka

The wandering knight, Bedivere, reaches the end of his journey. It is A.D. 1273 in Jerusalem. The Holy Land has been transformed into a massive desert and its people have been forced out of their homes as three major powers wage war with each other in this wasteland. The Knights of the Round Table come together to protect the Holy City and their Lion King. With the whole of his kingdom summoned into a strange land, Ozymandias, the Sun King, quietly plots against the tyranny of this bizarre realm. The mountain people, protectors of those who were stripped of their land, await their chance at rebellion. In order to fulfill his mission, Bedivere heads for the Holy City where the Lion King rules. There he meets humanity’s final Master, Ritsuka Fujimaru, who has come to Jerusalem, accompanied by his Demi-Servant, Mash Kyrielight, in their quest to restore human history.

Love Live! Hasunosora Girls' High School Idol Club Bloom Garden Party · 2026

Love Live! Hasunosora Girls' High School Idol Club Bloom Garden Party

2026

MovieAnimationMusic

Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie · 2015

Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie

★ 6.62015

MovieScience FictionAnimation

When a ghost-infecting virus known as Fire-Starter begins spreading through the system resulting in the assassination of the Japanese Prime Minister, Major Motoko Kusanagi and her elite team of special operatives are called in to track down its source.

Fate/Grand Order the Movie: Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot 2 Paladin; Agateram · 2021

Fate/Grand Order the Movie: Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot 2 Paladin; Agateram

★ 6.22021

The second part in a two-part anime film project adapting the "Sixth Singularity - Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot" story from the game.

Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain · 2013

Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain

The story is set in 2027, one year after the end of the fourth non-nuclear war. New Port City is still reeling from the war's aftermath when it suffers a bombing caused by a self-propelled mine. Then, a military member implicated in arms-dealing bribes is gunned down. During the investigation, Public Security Section's Daisuke Aramaki encounters Motoko Kusanagi, the cyborg, wizard-level hacker assigned to the military's 501st Secret Unit. Batou, a man with the "eye that does not sleep," suspects that Kusanagi is the one behind the bombing. The Niihama Prefectural Police detective Togusa is pursuing his own dual cases of the shooting death and a prostitute's murder. Motoko herself is being watched by the 501st Secret Unit's head Kurutsu and cyborg agents.

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society · 2007

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

★ 7.52007

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.

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Batman: Gotham Knight · 2008

Batman: Gotham Knight

★ 6.72008

MovieActionCrime

Six interlocking stories reveal Bruce Wayne's earliest adventures as Batman and the steps he took to become the grim avenger of Gotham City.

Director of Photography

A Letter to Momo · 2012

A Letter to Momo

★ 7.32012

MovieComedyFantasy

Director of Photography

Fate/Grand Order the Movie: Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot 1 Wandering; Agateram · 2020

Fate/Grand Order the Movie: Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot 1 Wandering; Agateram

★ 7.12020

Love Live! Hasunosora Girls' High School Idol Club Bloom Garden Party · 2026

Director of Photography

Love Live! Hasunosora Girls' High School Idol Club Bloom Garden Party

2026

MovieAnimationMusic

Director of Photography

Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie · 2015

Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie

★ 6.62015

MovieScience FictionAnimation

Director of Photography

Fate/Grand Order the Movie: Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot 2 Paladin; Agateram · 2021

Fate/Grand Order the Movie: Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot 2 Paladin; Agateram

★ 6.22021

The second part in a two-part anime film project adapting the "Sixth Singularity - Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot" story from the game.

Compositing Artist

Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain · 2013

Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society · 2007

Director of Photography

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

★ 7.52007

Eden of the East Movie I: The King of Eden · 2009

Director of Photography

Eden of the East Movie I: The King of Eden

★ 6.82009

MovieAnimationDrama

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.

Director of Photography

Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 3: Ghost Tears · 2014

Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 3: Ghost Tears

★ 6.82014

Posing as lovers on vacation, Motoko and Batou work to try to stop a terrorist organization whose symbol is the Scrasath. Meanwhile, Togusa investigates a murder of a man who possessed a prosthetic leg manufactured by the Mermaid's Leg corporation.

Director of Photography

The Wonderland · 2019

The Wonderland

★ 6.42019

MovieAnimationFantasy

The story follows Akane, a girl with no self-confidence. On the day before her birthday, she meets a mysterious alchemist, Hippocrates, and his student, Pipo, who both tell her they're on a mission to save the world. Together, they set out from the basement for "Wonderland," and Akane finds herself labelled Wonderland's savior.

Director of Photography

Following a brutal war, former soldier Van toils in a mine controlled by the ruling empire. One day, his solitary existence is upended when a pack of wild dogs carrying a deadly and incurable disease attack, leaving only Van and a young girl named Yuna as survivors. Finally free, the pair seek out a simple existence in the countryside but are pursued by nefarious forces. Intent on protecting Yuna at all costs, Van must uncover the true cause of the plague ravaging the kingdom—and its possible cure.

Director of Photography

The Empire of Corpses · 2015

The Empire of Corpses

★ 6.22015

MovieAnimationHorror

The story takes place in 19th century Europe, and revolves around John Watson. He is scouted by the government to become a secret agent. However, Watson lives in a world where "Frankensteins"—human corpses that are re-purposed with a false soul in order to use them as laborers—are used to improve industrial development.

Director of Photography

A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own mark in the world.

Director of Photography

Eden of the East Movie II: Paradise Lost · 2010

Eden of the East Movie II: Paradise Lost

★ 6.72010

MovieAnimationMystery

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.

Director of Photography

Napping Princess · 2017

Napping Princess

★ 6.72017

MovieFantasyAdventure

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.

Director of Photography

The Concierge · 2023

The Concierge

★ 6.92023

MovieAnimationFantasy

Welcome to the Hokkyoku Department Store! This unusual shop caters exclusively to animals, furry and feathered alike. Akino is a new concierge in training and she's quickly realizing the high demands of her customers—especially those on the extinct species list. From a sea mink searching for a special gift to a laughing owl looking to please his wife, can she fulfill every request?

Compositing Supervisor

Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 4: Ghost Stands Alone · 2014

Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 4: Ghost Stands Alone

★ 6.92014

The upcoming installment's story takes place amidst signs of postwar reconstruction in the winter of 2028. Tensions are rising in New Port City as demonstrations are held concerning the interests of foreign cartels. This leads to a shooting incident involving riot police. It all started with a cyberbrain infection released by the terrorist "Fire Starter." An independent offensive unit led by Makoto Kusanagi entrusts the suppression of the situation to their ghosts and aims for their own justice. Below the surface of the incident, lies the "tin girl" Emma and the "scarecrow man" Burinda Junior. As Kusanagi deals with the incident, she draws near to what those two ghosts were seeking.

Director of Photography

Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 5: Pyrophoric Cult · 2015

Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 5: Pyrophoric Cult

★ 6.32015

Motoko and her squad are finally getting closer to Fire-Starter's broker, but things get tense when they're instructed to take a backseat role on a sting operation.

Director of Photography

Eden of The East Compilation: Air Communication · 2009

Eden of The East Compilation: Air Communication

★ 6.32009

MovieAnimationDrama

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

Director of Photography

FLCL Progressive · 2018

FLCL Progressive

★ 5.42018

MovieActionComedy

Hidomi Hibajiri is a young girl who never takes off her headphones. Her whole life consists of going to school, helping out at her mother's cafe, and listening to music. With nothing else to break the crippling monotony, she keeps her headphones on at all times. That is, until she is run over by a mysterious guitar-wielding woman.

Director of Photography

Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 2: Ghost Whispers · 2013

Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 2: Ghost Whispers

Freed of her responsibilities with the 501 Organization, Motoko Kusanagi must now learn how to take orders from Aramaki. Someone hacks the Logicomas, and Batou enlists the help of former army intelligence officer Ishikawa and former air artillery expert Borma. Kusanagi also seeks to enlist ace sniper Saito and undercover cop Paz into the new Public Security Section 9.

Director of Photography

Konoha Inoue and Tōko Amano, the Literary Girl, as she calls herself, are the sole members of their high school literature club. Their lives will be altered when Konoha's past, forgotten for a long time, reaches the present, involving them in a whirlwind of feelings where love, jealousy, revenge, remorse and forgiveness struggle to prevail.

Director of Photography

Hal · 2013

Hal

Kurumi’s heart was broken by the sudden death of her boyfriend in a tragic airplane accident. By melding futuristic technology with the binary equivalent of human emotion, a brilliant scientist created an ultra-lifelike robotic surrogate to take Hal’s place – and lure Kurumi from her shroud of solitude.

MovieAnimationRomance

Director of Photography

Haikyu!! · 2014

Haikyu!!

★ 8.62014

SeriesAnimationComedy

Inspired by a small-statured pro volleyball player, 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.

Compositing Artist

From Me to You: Kimi ni Todoke · 2009

From Me to You: Kimi ni Todoke

★ 8.42009

SeriesAnimationDrama

Nicknamed "Sadako" for her spooky appearance, high schooler Sawako begins to break out of her shell when she befriends popular boy Kazehaya.

Director of Photography

Ashito Aoi is a young, aspiring soccer player from a backwater town in Japan. His hopes of getting into a high school with a good soccer club are dashed when he causes an incident during a critical match for his team, which results in their loss and elimination from the tournament. Nevertheless, he catches the eye of someone important who happened to be visiting from Tokyo. How will things turn out for Ashito?

3D Supervisor

Moriarty the Patriot · 2020

Moriarty the Patriot

★ 8.32020

SeriesAnimationMystery

In the late 19th century, the British Empire nobility reigns while its working class suffers at their hands. Sympathetic to their plight, William James Moriarty wants to topple it all. Frustrated by the systemic inequity, Moriarty strategizes to fix the entire nation. Not even consulting detective Sherlock Holmes can stand in his way. It’s time for crime to revolutionize the world!

Director of Photography

Guilty Crown · 2011

Guilty Crown

★ 7.32011

SeriesAnimationSci-Fi & Fantasy

The story revolves around Shu Ouma, a high school boy who inadvertently obtains an ability called "The Power of the Kings" that enables him to draw out items called "Voids" from other people. He is then thrown into the conflict between a resistance group called Funeral Parlor which aims to restore Japan's independence from a quasi-governmental organization known as the GHQ. In the process, Shu has to deal with the burden his ability puts on his shoulders and the horrific mystery of his past.

Director of Photography

Blood+ · 2005

Blood+

★ 8.12005

SeriesAnimationSci-Fi & Fantasy

Unable to remember the past, high school senior Saya Otonashi must rediscover her destiny in order to defeat the chiropteran vampires that threaten her loved ones' existence.

Director of Photography

Hozuki's Coolheadedness · 2014

Hozuki's Coolheadedness

★ 7.12014

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyAnimation

Hōzuki is the aide to the great king of Hell, King Enma. Calm and super-sadistic, Hōzuki tries to resolve the various problems in Hell, including a rampaging Momotarō and his companions. However, he also likes spending his free time on his hobbies, such as fawning over cute animals and raising "Goldfish Flowers."

Director of Photography

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex · 2002

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

★ 8.22002

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.

Director of Photography

FLCL · 2000

FLCL

★ 7.92000

SeriesAnimationComedy

Naota is a normal boy who kills some time with a normal girl by a stream that flows underneath a bridge. Nothing unusual happens in this town. The fact that Haruhara Haruko crashes into the main character with her Vespa a short while later and subsequently hits him over the head with her Rickenbacker 4003 bass guitar doesn’t really make any difference to any other day here. The at first glance unconnected, bizarre events that don’t seem to follow any pattern whatsoever don’t change anything about Naota’s boring life, either – because nothing incredible ever happens in this town.

Director of Photography

By force of circumstances, a 30-year-old single man with a full-time job suddenly starts raising a 6-year-old girl. While running each other ragged, the two of them gradually grow into a "family".

Director of Photography

Taking place in the year 1937 on the eve of World War II, the story involves a mysterious spy training organization known as the "D Agency." The organization is established by Lieutenant Colonel Yuuki from the Imperial Japanese Army. His ideals lead him to recruit people beyond military academy graduates and personnel, while training them to become skilled agents in arts of manipulation. These agents would become a specialized team to conduct operations. One such antihero agent, under the name Jirou Gamou, goes on a harrowing mission to uncover secret documents titled "Black Notes," while battling forces from within and without his own ranks.

Director of Photography

Eden of the East · 2009

Eden of the East

★ 6.92009

SeriesAnimationDrama

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.

Director of Photography

Real Drive · 2008

Real Drive

★ 7.12008

The story takes place in 2061, 50 years after humanity developed the "Net society" that depended on information networks despite their security issues. To improve security, a new network called Meta Real Network — or "Metal" for short — was developed. People's personal memories are reduced to information and placed within "protected virtual stand-alone organic cyber enclaves" called bubble shells online. The result was a virtual "explosion" of creative freedom as people felt safe enough to explore instincts and desires on Metal that they would not otherwise explore in real life. This "friction" between the Metal's alluring lack of restrictions and rules-bound reality led to trouble and incidents that investigators known as "cyber divers" must handle. Masamichi Haru is one such cyber diver.

Director of Photography

Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet · 2013

Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet

★ 7.22013

SeriesAction & AdventureAnimation

While fighting an intense inter-galactic war, a mecha pilot is accidentally warped into a space-time neither he nor his computer recognize. After waking up from a long-time hibernation, he finds himself trapped on a planet, with human residents talking in an unknown form of language, using inferior technologies, and - most shocking to him - naturally breathable air.

Director of Photography

Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Alternative Architecture · 2015

Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Alternative Architecture

★ 7.12015

SeriesAnimationCrime

The story follows Motoko Kusanagi, a highly skilled member of the military, whom upon meeting Daisuke Aramaki, a current chief of the Public Security Section 9, in less than desirable conditions struggles to clear her name whilst forming her own independent team with the highest priority under the sponsorship and guidance of the chief Aramaki himself.

Director of Photography

Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit · 2007

Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit

★ 7.82007

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.

Director of Photography

Welcome to the Ballroom · 2017

Welcome to the Ballroom

★ 7.62017

SeriesAnimationDrama

Tatara is an average middle school student with no particular dreams until an unexpected incident draws him into the fascinating world of ballroom dancing. “If I can just find one thing to be passionate about...” He dives into the world of dance, believing it's his opportunity to change. “Dance is a passion!”

Director of Photography

Moonrise · 2025

Moonrise

★ 7.12025

After rebel forces attack Earth, a carefree heir becomes the prime suspect and joins a special military unit to find the true mastermind on the Moon.

Director of Photography

Maria the Virgin Witch · 2015

Maria the Virgin Witch

★ 5.82015

SeriesAnimationComedy

During the Hundred Year's War between England and France in the Middle Ages, a powerful witch named Maria lives in a secret forest with her familiars. She hates the war around her, and will sometimes stir up trouble against the church that does nothing to stop it. Her interventions into the world, however, run against the plans of heaven, earning her the attention of the Archangel Michael.

Director of Photography

Pokémon Origins · 2013

Pokémon Origins

★ 7.32013

SeriesFamilyAction & Adventure

Follow Red as he travels through the Kanto region, encounters Team Rocket, battles his rival, and challenges the Pokémon League!

Compositing Supervisor

THE ONE PIECE

Determined to become King of the Pirates, Monkey D. Luffy leads his Straw Hat crew across treacherous seas in search of the legendary One Piece while facing ruthless rivals, powerful enemies, and countless dangers along the way.

Director of Photography

Library War · 2008

Library War

★ 7.22008