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Junichi Sato
Junichi Sato (佐藤 順一, Satō Jun'ichi; born March 11, 1960) is a Japanese anime director. After working for Toei Dōga (currently Toei Animation) and then TYO Animations (formerly Hal Film Maker), he joined Twin Engine in 2017.
Sato has been active since the 1980s and is a hit maker who, as series director of children's TV animation during his time at Toei Dōga, brought out the first series of long-running popular titles such as Sailor Moon and Ojamajo Doremi. After leaving Toei, he has continued to demonstrate his skills by working on popular series such as Sgt. Frog and Pretty Cure.
He won the Mainichi Film Award for Best Animation Film in 1996 and 2020 for his films.
Sato was born in Nagoya and moved to Ama, when he entered junior high school, where he stayed until he moved to Tokyo for university.
Sato passed Toei Dōga's trainee recruitment exam while still a student in the animation course of the film department of Nihon University College of Art, and dropped out of university to join the company in 1981. Shortly before this, he had received an honorable mention for a manga he submitted to Shogakukan's call for new manga artists, and was discussing his subsequent work with the editorial department. After working as a production assistant, he passed the director's selection test around 1983.
In 1986, he was selected as the youngest series director in Toei Dōga's history for Maple Town Stories. After a minor misunderstanding, he got into trouble with the producer and was demoted to episode director of the sequel, New Maple Town Stories.
He was to have directed Studio Ghibli's 1989 film Kiki's Delivery Service, produced by Hayao Miyazaki, but left the project before it started. Negotiations between Toei and Ghibli were difficult, and Sato himself was the point of contact for the trainees in labor-management negotiations between Toei and the trainees, so it was difficult for him to announce that he would quit Toei. Ghibli's Toshio Suzuki told him he could come to Ghibli in the form of a secondment, but in the final stages Toei Dōga came to the conclusion that they would not second someone who had been brought up in-house, and he was forced to give up directing the film. Next in line to direct the film was Sunao Katabuchi, who had been involved with Hayao Miyazaki's films since his student days, but the main sponsor balked at this, and Miyazaki ended up directing the film.
Sato acted as series director on Sailor Moon since 1992. He participated in the work from the planning stage and provided input on character settings and changes from the original manga.
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Junichi Sato
Junichi Sato (佐藤 順一, Satō Jun'ichi; born March 11, 1960) is a Japanese anime director. After working for Toei Dōga (currently Toei Animation) and then TYO Animations (formerly Hal Film Maker), he joined Twin Engine in 2017.
Sato has been active since the 1980s and is a hit maker who, as series director of children's TV animation during his time at Toei Dōga, brought out the first series of long-running popular titles such as Sailor Moon and Ojamajo Doremi. After leaving Toei, he has continued to demonstrate his skills by working on popular series such as Sgt. Frog and Pretty Cure.
He won the Mainichi Film Award for Best Animation Film in 1996 and 2020 for his films.
Sato was born in Nagoya and moved to Ama, when he entered junior high school, where he stayed until he moved to Tokyo for university.
Sato passed Toei Dōga's trainee recruitment exam while still a student in the animation course of the film department of Nihon University College of Art, and dropped out of university to join the company in 1981. Shortly before this, he had received an honorable mention for a manga he submitted to Shogakukan's call for new manga artists, and was discussing his subsequent work with the editorial department. After working as a production assistant, he passed the director's selection test around 1983.
In 1986, he was selected as the youngest series director in Toei Dōga's history for Maple Town Stories. After a minor misunderstanding, he got into trouble with the producer and was demoted to episode director of the sequel, New Maple Town Stories.
He was to have directed Studio Ghibli's 1989 film Kiki's Delivery Service, produced by Hayao Miyazaki, but left the project before it started. Negotiations between Toei and Ghibli were difficult, and Sato himself was the point of contact for the trainees in labor-management negotiations between Toei and the trainees, so it was difficult for him to announce that he would quit Toei. Ghibli's Toshio Suzuki told him he could come to Ghibli in the form of a secondment, but in the final stages Toei Dōga came to the conclusion that they would not second someone who had been brought up in-house, and he was forced to give up directing the film. Next in line to direct the film was Sunao Katabuchi, who had been involved with Hayao Miyazaki's films since his student days, but the main sponsor balked at this, and Miyazaki ended up directing the film.
Sato acted as series director on Sailor Moon since 1992. He participated in the work from the planning stage and provided input on character settings and changes from the original manga.