Yoshifumi Kondô(1950-1998)

Animation Department
Director
Art Department

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Yoshifumi Kondô was born on 31 March 1950 in Niigata, Japan. He was a director, known for Whisper of the Heart (1995), Only Yesterday (1991) and Princess Mononoke (1997). He died on 21 January 1998 in Tokyo, Japan.

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Awards
- 1 win total

Known for

Whisper of the Heart (1995)

Whisper of the Heart

7.8

Director

1995

Yoko Honna, Miki Imai, Alison Fernandez, and Daisy Ridley in Only Yesterday (1991)

7.6

Animation Department

1991

Claire Danes and Yuriko Ishida in Princess Mononoke (1997)

Princess Mononoke

8.3

Animation Department

1997

Corinne Orr, Ayano Shiraishi, Tsutomu Tatsumi, J. Robert Spencer, Emily Neves, and Adam Gibbs in Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

Grave of the Fireflies

8.5

Animation Department

1988

Credits

Animation Department

Princess Mononoke
8.3
- character designer
- supervising animator
- 1997
Armitage III: Poly-Matrix
6.7
Video
- background: Studio Biho
- 1996
Pom Poko
7.2
- key animator
- 1994
Anne of Green Gables: Road to Green Gables
7.2
- animation director
- character designer
- 1992
Porco Rosso
7.7
- key animator
- 1992
Only Yesterday
7.6
- animation director
- character designer
- 1991
Kiki's Delivery Service
7.8
- supervising animator
- 1989
Grave of the Fireflies
8.5
- animation director
- character designer
- 1988
Tales of Little Women
7.5
TV Series
- character designer
- key animator
- 1987
The Blinkins: The Bear and the Blizzard
7.9
TV Movie
- character designer
- 1987
Ai shôjo Porianna monogatari
7.3
TV Series
- key animator
- 1986
Sherlock Hound
7.5
TV Series
- animation director
- 1984–1985
Nemo
6.9
Short
- animator
- 1984
Conan the Future Boy: The Big Giant Robot's Resurrection
8.2
- animator
- 1984
Sugata Sanshirô
7.5
TV Movie
- key animator
- 1981

Director

Art Department

Personal details

Born
- March 31, 1950
- Niigata, Japan
Died
- January 21, 1998
- Tokyo, Japan(aneurysm)

Did you know

Trivia
Famed anime director Hayao Miyazaki had intended Kondo to be his successor as Studio Ghibli's film director. Unfortunately, Kondo was only able to direct a single Ghibli film before his untimely death in 1998, Whisper of the Heart (1995).

Nickname
- Kon-chan

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