Hidefumi Hanatani

Hidefumi Hanatani

Nacimiento : 1967-07-18,

Historia

Born 1967, Hidefumi Hanatani (花谷秀文) is a Japanese art director. He has received numerous awards, including the 39th Japan Academy Film Prize for Best Art Direction for 125 Years Memory.

Perfil

Hidefumi Hanatani

Películas

Fortuna's Eye
Production Design
Shinichiro Kiyama is completely alone in the world. One day, he realizes he possesses "Fortuna's Eye", an ability through which people whose death is drawing near appear transparent to him. It is a gift that torments him. Then he meets a cheerful, optimistic girl Aoi Kiryu who makes him feel at ease. Shinichiro develops feelings for her, but after a brief period of happiness, Aoi's body suddenly starts turning transparent.
Kids on the Slope
Production Design
La historia gira en torno a Nishimi Kaoru, un estudiante de primer año de Preparatoria que tiene que mudarse a Sasebo, en Nagasaki, para vivir con sus familiares después de que su padre muera. Allí conoce a sus compañeros de clase, Kawabuchi Sentaro, que es temido por todos porque tiene aspecto de delincuente, y Mukae Ritsuko, que es amiga de la infancia de Sentaro. A través de ellos, se enamora del piano y las técnicas de jazz. Por otro lado, Kaoru se ve envuelto en un cuadrado amoroso, pues se enamora de Ritsuko, pero ella está enamorada de Sentaro, quien a su vez está enamorado de Fukahori Yurika, una estudiante de 2º curso.
Magic Kimono
Art Direction
“Magic Kimono” tells the story of middle-aged Japanese woman Keiko, who has been living in a shell for decades due to a family tragedy in Kobe. The modest act of eating and the sensations it gives us provided Keiko a lifeline to survive. Unwillingly, she joins a group of Japanese women traveling to Northern Europe to participate in a kimono show in the fairytale-like art nouveau world of Riga. During her performance, Keiko suddenly comes face to face with her husband, who disappeared twenty years ago and now wants to read-dress their relationship and who Keiko has become.
My Teacher (Sensei!)
Production Design
Kosaku Ito enseña historia del mundo en una escuela secundaria. Parece inflexible, pero, de hecho, tiene un corazón cálido. Hibiki Shimada, una estudiante inexperta en el amor y que nunca antes ha tenido novio, se da cuenta que está enamorada de Kosaku. Debido a que es joven e ingenua, se muestra honesta con Kosaku acerca de sus sentimientos. Kosaku, sin embargo, es incapaz de expresar sus sentimientos libremente debido a su posición como profesor.
Maniac Hero
Production Design
Nakatsu was laid off at his company and now works part-time at a convenience store. One day, Nakatsu forms a vigilante group to protect his town with Toshida, who has a mysterious physical ability, Kanari, who is a female high school student with excellent information gathering abilities, and Kusaki, who wields hammers under his sleeves. As they punish evil doers, the group gains popular support and flourish.
125 Years Memory
Production Design
Two historical incidents that deepened the friendship between Japan and Turkey are connected in this story of friendship and compassion: In the night of 16 September 1890 the Turkish frigate Ertuğrul is caught up in a typhoon and sinks off the Japanese coast. Risking their own lives, local villagers are able to rescue 69 Turkish sailors. Although being very poor and having hardly to eat, the villagers share what little they have with strangers from a country 9,000 kilometers away. 95 years later, during the Iran-Iraq War, more than 300 Japanese are stranded in Tehran. In the morning of 19 March 1985 a Turkish Airlines aircraft takes off for Tehran to evacuate the Japanese. But the remaining Turks at Tehran Mehrabad Airport still need to be convinced that they won't be able to board their own country's rescue flight.
Ao Haru Ride
Production Design
Al comenzar la secundaria, a Yoshioka Futaba le agradaba que Tanaka Ko fuera diferente a los demás. Pero luego, Ko desapareció y perdieron el contacto. Al finalizar el primer año, Futaba lo reencuentra, pero descubre que no solo su nombre ha cambiado a Mabuchi Ko, su personalidad dejó de ser la que era... La película está basada en el manga shojo de Sakisaka Io.
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
Art Direction
Kill Bill es una película de acción y suspense de dos partes estrenada en 2003 y 2004 respectivamente, que fue escrita y dirigida por Quentin Tarantino. Kill Bill originalmente fue propuesta para tener un lanzamiento único en los cines, pero con una duración de más de cuatro horas, fue separada en dos volúmenes: Kill Bill: Volumen 1, lanzada a finales de 2003, y Kill Bill: Volumen 2, lanzada a inicios de 2004. Las dos películas fueron bien recibidas por la crítica, muchos notando su estilo de dirección y su homenaje a géneros cinematográficos como las películas de artes marciales hongkonesa, las películas de samuráis, spaghetti western, chicas con armas, violación y venganza. En 2011, las dos películas fueron unidas y, junto a una secuencia animada extensa, fueron estrenadas bajo título de Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair en el New Beverly Cinema, en Los Ángeles, California.
The Lady Shogun and Her Men
Art Direction
In the year 1716 a mysterious epidemic stickens men in the country of Japan, dropping the population of men to 1/4th of its prior state. With the drastic reduction of men, the gender roles have become reversed in Japan. Woman become the dominant members of society and males are sought out for the ability to produce children. A young man named Unoshin Mizuno hopes to marry childhood sweetheart Onobu, but due to class differences realizes this is almost impossible. To raise his social status and also save his poor family, Unoshin Mizuno enters the Ohoku (inner chambers of the Shugun's castle) and attempts to vie among 3,000 other men for the affection of the female shogun. What Unoshin Mizuno quickly learns about the Ohoku is that the men there are all beautiful, but highly ambitious and conniving. In this environment, the 7th shogun Tokugawa passes away and the new shogun Yoshimune Tokugawa takes the thrown and enters the Ohoku.
Gravity's Clowns
Production Design
On the outset, the Okunos seem like a normal happy family with father Tadashi and his two bright sons, genetics researcher Izumi and artsy Haru. When a series of arson attacks strike the neighborhood, clues left at the crime scenes seem to be somehow related to the Okunos. Izumi and Haru try to get to the bottom of mystery, slowly unveiling a tragic family secret that has come back to haunt them.
Cheer Cheer Cheer!
Production Design
Momoko (Yui Aragaki) is a quiet and lonely high school girl who's only passion is to cheer traditional cheer squad, but all she could gather were good for nothing guys, who could not find places in school. They start the cheer squad with a disaster, but when they finally find the true meaning of "cheering" someone, their passion becomes power and gives strength to those that are cheered.
A todo gas: Tokyo Race
Art Direction
Shaun Boswell es un chico que no acaba de encajar en ningún grupo. Su única conexión con el mundo de indiferencia que le rodea es a través de las carreras ilegales, lo que no le ha convertido en el chico favorito de la policía. Cuando amenazan con encarcelarle, le mandan fuera del país a pasar una temporada con su tío, un militar destinado en Japón. En el país donde nacieron la mayoría de los coches modificados, las simples carreras en la calle principal han sido sustituidas por el último reto automovilístico que desafía la gravedad, las carreras de "drift" (arrastre), una peligrosa mezcla de velocidad en pistas con curvas muy cerradas y en zigzag. En su primera incursión en el salvaje mundo de las carreras de "drift", Shaun acepta ingenuamente conducir un D.K, el Rey del Drift, que pertenece a los Yakuza, la mafia japonesa. Para pagar su deuda, no tiene más remedio que codearse con el hampa de Tokio y jugarse la vida.
The Milkwoman
Art Direction
Minako (TANAKA Yuko), begins her day running up and down the hills of her hometown delivering milk door to door. When that's done, she heads to her day job as a supermarket cashier. Minako is 50 and single. In one of the houses to which she delivers milk is a man with whom she has secretly been in love since high school. The man, Keita (KISHIBE Ittoku), lives with his wife Yoko, who is terminally ill. Caring for her at home, he works in the children's affairs section of the local municipal office. Though he insists that he wants nothing more than an "ordinary" existence, his life is in turmoil below the surface. The director uses a variety of narrative devises to portray the loneliness, isolation, and hope of these people who have seemingly allowed their goals and dreams to slip away, whilst keeping them agonizingly close to hand.
Letters from Kanai Nirai
Production Design
Fuki who lives with her grandfather Shoei in Taketomi Island, Okinawa, dreams of becoming a photographer. In her childhood, her mother Masami left Fuki to live in Tokyo. Although Masami has not come back, Fuki receives birthday cards from Masami every year on her birthday. On Fuki's fourteenth birthday, Masami promises to confess everything when Fuki becomes 20 years old. After her graduation from high school, Fuki moves to Tokyo to work as a camera assistant. Fuki starts off her hectic life in Tokyo, and soon, her nineteenth birthday comes. As usual, she receives a birthday card from Masami. A year later...
Boy's Choir
Art Direction
A young teen's father dies, and he is sent to an orphanage. He's teased because he stutters almost runs away, until a beautiful, androgynous boy, Yasuo (Sora Toma), convinces him to join the choir.
Hakuchi: The Innocent
Set Designer
In a future where World War II never ended, Japan is decimated by nightly bombings. The only building left standing is known as the Media Station, a broadcasting center responsible for all of Japan's entertainment.
Paradise Sea
Production Design
Japanese drama set in a southern Kyushu island where dance-troupe leader Shinji (Shinji Arano) stays on as his touring troupe departs. After Shinji moves in with an old man (Nobuyoshi Tanigawa) cared for by his granddaughter (Reiko Matsuo), he becomes an apprentice to the old man's construction of a wooden boat
Yoi ko to asobou
Production Design
Five junior high school students in the city enjoy stealing as a game to pass the time. One day, a mysterious masked man suddenly appears in front of them and attacks them.
Talking Head
Production Design
It's nearly time for the debut of the most anticipated anime movie of the year, Talking Head. There's just a few minor problems: the director has disappeared and the movie isn't even started! Desperate to meet their deadline, the studio hires a "migrant technical director" to fill in for the missing director. But there's more going on here than just slipping deadlines. One by one, the staff is being murdered and it's only a matter of time before the new director's next on the list!