Yoshiharu Sato

Yoshiharu Sato

Birth : 1958-05-15, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

History

Yoshiharu Sato (佐藤 好春, Satō Yoshiharu, May 15, 1958) is a Japanese animator and character designer born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. He is best known for his work for Nippon Animation on the World Masterpiece Theater series. He has alse worked for Studio Ghibli.

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Yoshiharu Sato

Movies

Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya: Licht Nameless Girl
Animation Director
The Ainsworth family's goal is to save the world from evil, but their success depends on the great sacrifice Magical Girl Miyu makes for them. Her brother Shirou, however, is not willing to let the family have his sister without a fight. That’s why he doggedly searches for a way to save not only the world but also Miyu...
Fireworks
Key Animation
Moshimo, Japan. The annual fireworks festival is about to take place and a group of schoolboys, arguing over whether they are round or flat when viewed from different angles, set out to find it out.
Oyako wa Tsudzuku yo
Character Designer
Yoshiharu Satou animated short about parents and adult children.
Oyako wa Tsudzuku yo
Animation Director
Yoshiharu Satou animated short about parents and adult children.
Sinbad - Night at High Noon and the Wonder Gate
Character Designer
The search for Sana’s comrades continues. Sara who opens up her heart to Sinbad reveals her horrible story of how her father’s apprentice Galip destroyed the peaceful kingdom and her family by using the wizardly power. Suddenly the Magic Lamp shows the passage “to the Wonder Gate to the land of ancestors that appears in the Night at High Noon,” but Galip’s solders block their path.
Sinbad - The Flying Princess and the Secret Island
Supervising Animation Director
Sinbad: Sora Tobu Hime to Himitsu no Shima is an upcoming Japanese animated family adventure film inspired by Arabian Nights. The film is produced by Nippon Animation and Shirogumi, directed by Shinpei Miyashita and written by Kaeko Hayafune.
Doraemon: Nobita's Secret Gadget Museum
Key Animation
While Doraemon is asleep, a famous thief comes and steals his cat-bell. Without his cat-bell, Doraemon starts to act more and more like a normal cat. In order to stop this, Nobita, Shizuka, Suneo, and Gian have to go and search for his bell, so they go to a factory where all of Doraemon's gadgets are made.
Doraemon: Nobita and the Island of Miracles - Animal Adventure
Key Animation
Nobita and Doraemon use time tree Mochi and catches a big bird Moa, which has been extinct for 500 years ago. To protect extinct the animal, Nobita and Doramon go to Beremon Island which is protected by a golden beetle named Herakles. They meet a girl from the Rokkoro tribe and a boy who looks exactly like Nobita on Beremon Island ...
Encounter with Earth
Character Designer
A family animation programme about the Earth's environment. Chasing after a glowing particle, the root of all life, along with our main character Naoko, you will discover a vital truth about what links you with other living beings and our planet.
Lupin the Third: Blood Seal of the Eternal Mermaid
Animation Director
A pair of jewels hold the secret to an even greater treasure, but there are so many obstacles in Lupin's way. The smallest one is Maki, a precocious fourteen year old girl who wants Lupin to teach her to be a thief. But what is her tie to the treasure and the mysterious girl Misa, a girl who cannot die? The secrets behind the treasure reach back even into Lupin's past; will the Blood Seal be opened?!
Lupin the Third: Blood Seal of the Eternal Mermaid
Character Designer
A pair of jewels hold the secret to an even greater treasure, but there are so many obstacles in Lupin's way. The smallest one is Maki, a precocious fourteen year old girl who wants Lupin to teach her to be a thief. But what is her tie to the treasure and the mysterious girl Misa, a girl who cannot die? The secrets behind the treasure reach back even into Lupin's past; will the Blood Seal be opened?!
Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: The Sacred Star of Milos
Key Animation
After a mysterious prisoner with only a few weeks left on his sentence breaks out of prison in Central City, the Elric brothers attempt to track him down. The search leads them to Table City in the southwestern country of Creta, where Alphonse rescues a young alchemist named Julia from the very man they are trying to capture. In the thick of the fight, they literally tumble into Julia's home turf, the slums of Milos Valley, and are embroiled in the grassroots rebellion of her people.
Children Who Chase Lost Voices
Key Animation
The film centers on Asuna, a young girl who spends her solitary days listening to the mysterious music emanating from the crystal radio she received from her late father as a memento. One day while walking home she is attacked by a fearsome monster and saved mysterious boy named Shun. However, Shun disappears and Asuna embarks on a journey of adventure to the land of Agartha with her teacher Mr. Morisaki to meet a Shun again. Through her journey she comes to know the cruelty and beauty of the world, as well as loss.
The Secret World of Arrietty
Key Animation
14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items "borrowed" from the house's human inhabitants. However, life changes for the Clocks when a human boy discovers Arrietty.
The Cat Returns
Key Animation
Young Haru rescues a cat from being run over, but soon learns it's no ordinary feline; it happens to be the Prince of the Cats.
Princess Arete
Key Animation
Imprisoned by a sorcerer who fears she will rob him of eternal life, guileless young Princess Arete befriends a villager who helps her plan an escape.
Porco Rosso
Key Animation
In Italy in the 1930s, sky pirates in biplanes terrorize wealthy cruise ships as they sail the Adriatic Sea. The only pilot brave enough to stop the scourge is the mysterious Porco Rosso, a former World War I flying ace who was somehow turned into a pig during the war. As he prepares to battle the pirate crew's American ace, Porco Rosso enlists the help of spunky girl mechanic Fio Piccolo and his longtime friend Madame Gina.
Only Yesterday
Animation Director
It's 1982, and Taeko is 27 years old, unmarried, and has lived her whole life in Tokyo. She decides to visit her family in the countryside, where she begins to reconnect to forgotten longings. In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self.
Kiki's Delivery Service
Key Animation
A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.
My Neighbor Totoro
Animation Supervisor
Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When the youngest runs away from home, the older sister seeks help from the spirits to find her.
Macross: Do You Remember Love?
Key Animation
It is A.D. 2009 and the human race is caught in a war between giant humanoids, male Zentrans and female Meltrans. Returning from the edge of our solar system after making a space fold, the SDF-1 Macross makes the long journey back to Earth with survivors of South Ataria Island. "Macross: Do You Remember Love?" is an alternate re-telling of the events that occurred in the original 1982 TV series.