Jirou Kouno

Birth : , Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

History

Jirou Kouno (河野 次郎, Kōno Jirō) is a Japanese animation art director born in Hiroshima Prefecture. After working for Studio Uni, he established Image Room Jirou.

Movies

Black Jack: The Movie
Art Direction
Black Jack is a master surgeon who possesses impeccable skills, enabling him to perform operations that are impossible for even the finest surgeons. He now is faced with his most difficult task to date and must challenge the limits of medical science...before it's too late!
Weird Volunteers
Art Direction
A film produced and paid for by Kitakyushu City's Board of Education and Council for the Promotion of Outcast Issue Awareness. The story follows two second-year junior high girls who discover an old lady collapsed outside her home in rural Japan. After assisting her back inside, the two hear the old lady's harrowing life story and discover that she is illiterate. Shocked by this, the girls vow to volunteer their time to teach the old woman to read and write each day.
Mr. Pen Pen
Art Direction
Pen-Pen, the hat-and-tie-wearing prince of Penguin Land, turns up unexpectedly on little Mika's doorstep. and invites himself and his zany friends to stay.