Leiji Matsumoto(1938-2023)
- Writer
- Director
- Animation Department
Leiji Matsumoto was born on 25 January 1938 in Fukuoka, Japan. He was a writer and director, known for Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years (1985), Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato: Warriors of Love (1978) and Space Battleship Yamato (1974). He was married to Miyako Maki. He died on 13 February 2023 in Tokyo, Japan.
- Awards
- 1 win total
Writer
- 2024
- 2025
- 2024
- 2024
- 2022
- 2021
- 2021
- Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Chapter 7
- original work
- 2019
- 2017–2019
- Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Chapter 6
- original work
- 2018
- 2018
- 2018
- 2018
- Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Chapter 5
- original work
- 2018
- Space Battleship Yamato 2202 Chapter 4
- original work
- 2018
- 2017
Director
Animation Department
- Official site
- Alternative name
- Reiji Matsumoto
- Born
- Died
- February 13, 2023
- Tokyo, Japan(acute heart failure)
- Spouse
- Miyako Maki1962 - February 13, 2023 (his death)
- Other worksDirected the animated music videos for Daft Punk's album "Discovery".
- TriviaThe music group Daft Punk are huge fans of Matsumoto's work and commissioned him to work on the music videos of their album "Discovery". This inspired Toei Animation to hire both the group and Matsumoto to make Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (2003).
- QuotesIf Space Battleship Yamato (1974) was my elementary or junior high, then Galaxy Express 999 (1978) was my high school and Space Pirate Captain Harlock (1978) and Queen Millennia (1981) were my university studies.
- TrademarksHe has a deep fascination with the number 9 and uses it in his works, believing it represents the last stop before a major shift in mathematics/time/space/the ages of man.
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