Akihiko Takahashi

Nascimento : 1943-06-29,

Filmes

Tomcat's Big Adventure
Director of Photography
Unseen animated feature film directed by Ryutaro Nakamura (Serial Experiments Lain). The story is adapted from the children's book, "Adventures of Tom the Small Cat" by Masumi Lino and Yumiko Imai.
252: Signal of Life
Production Design
At some point in the distant future, a massive, catastrophic earthquake strikes Tokyo, causing the temperature of the Pacific Ocean to rise meteorically and the largest typhoon in recorded Japanese history to sweep toward the city and inundate it with water. The Tokyo Fire Department and its team of crack rescuers swing into action, and shortly after they do, a distress call arises from an underground subway station - with repeated indications of the rescue code, 252 252, and the exclamation "We Have Survivors." It soon becomes apparent that the local rescue squad must attempt to save the survivors, doing so at the expense of their own lives and safety. Written by Nathan Southern
Moon Over Tao: Makaraga
Production Design
A retired warrior comes to see his former lord and learns that someone is making indestructible swords from some unknown metal. He is sent together with a swordsman to investigate the source. Along the way they meet a young girl working as a beekeeper. She is later witness to the appearance of three strange females from another dimension. They are searching for a lost weapon that has landed on earth and as one of them lay dying she enlists the girl to help them control the strange beast/weapon. Meanwhile the warrior and the swordsman learn that an old nemesis has created the swords from the shell that surrounded the alien weapon. Soon the alien beast/weapon is awakened and battle for control ensues.
Macross Plus: The Movie
Director of Photography
Three decades after the great war between the humans and the Zentradi, the U.N. government is developing new technologies to use in their transforming fighter aircraft by running tests on the colony planet Eden. Military test pilots and former childhood friends, loose cannon Isamu Alva Dyson and the Zentradi mixed race Guld Goa Bowman, are selected to each pilot a new aircraft (Shinsei Industries' YF-19 & General Galaxy's YF-21) for Project Super Nova, to choose the newest successor to the VF-11 Thunderbolt variable fighter which is currently still in use by the U.N. Spacy military forces. Their own personal grudges end up disrupting the tests, and begin to wreak havoc on the program.
Mechanical Violator Hakaider
Production Design
Aqui é apresentada uma aventura sombria ambientada em um futuro pós-apocalíptico. Na utópica cidade de Jesus Town, o líder Guljef e seu anjo mecânico Mikhael controlam a população que vive sem vontade própria. Contra eles, um grupo de renegados luta para levar liberdade ao povo. Hakaider, um andróide esquecido, se une a eles. Mesmo lutando pela liberdade e justiça, mostra todo seu lado sanguinário.
Zeiram 2
Production Design
Os caçadores de recompensas intergalácticos Iria e Bob retornam para rastrear uma antiga relíquia mística. Quando uma segunda unidade de Zeiram aparece e enlouquece, todos os recursos de Iria são necessários para sobreviver a um jogo mortal de gato e rato com a temível criatura espacial.
Darkside Blues
Director of Photography
The Persona Century Corporation has purchased nearly every parcel of land on earth. Dissension is not tolerated within the corporation's borders and those who oppose Persona are dealt with swiftly. Of those few places not yet under Persona's control is the free town of Kabuki-cho, also known as "The Dark Side of Tokyo". Within the town, under the leadership of a woman named Mai, is a small resistance group called Messiah. Into this world steps a man who takes the sobriquet of Kabuki-cho: Darkside. Sealed up in another dimension eighteen years ago by Persona Century, Darkside now returns to aid Messiah using his unique mystic power of renewal.
Bounty Dog
Director of Photography
In the future, mankind has colonized the bleak expanses of the moon. Cities now stand proudly where there was once only desolation and emptiness. But there are alien forces that do not want mankind to succeed and only one man can stop them. He is a member of the Bounty Dog Investigation Unit, a high-tech cybernetic mercenary team.
Blue Butterfly Fish
Director of Photography
Ushio is a freediver with strange powers. He and his friends are at a tropical land in search of a rare fish, the Blue Butterfly. This pursuit leads them to Ayuuru, a local girl who might know where to find the legendary fish.
Please Save My Earth
Director of Photography
Alice is a Japanese schoolgirl who has never thought much about the past... that is, until her classmates, Jinpachi and Issei, tell her that they've been sharing the same vivid dreams ever since they were in junior high school. In the dreams, Jinpachi and Issei, plus five other scientists, are on some sort of base or research station on the moon. The seven of them are involved in some kind of work observing the Earth, collecting data. Alice doesn't think anything of it... until she has the same dream.
Suikoden Demon Century
Director of Photography
In the early 21st century, an earthquake destroyed Tokyo. Japan lost its center of government and industry, and turned into a lawless territory. Looking for his sister, Takateru Suga learns that she was kidnapped by the powerful Koryukai gang. He decides to ally himself with a drag queen, two ex-mercenaries and a nun to destroy the crime organization and save his sister!
Patlabor 2 - O Filme
Director of Photography
Uma unidade da polícia japonesa que usa robôs antropomórficos gigantes (chamados Labors) está envolvida em uma disputa política entre as autoridades civis e militares quando um ato terrorista é atribuído a um jato da Força Aérea. Com a ajuda de um agente do governo, a equipe se aproxima de um líder terrorista para impedir que as coisas saiam do controle quando os militares são forçados a impor a lei marcial.
Zeiram
Production Design
Teppei e Kamiya, dois profissionais que trabalham na indústria de serviços eletrônicos, encontram a caçadora de recompensas intergaláctica Ilia e seu parceiro, a inteligência artificial chamada Bob. Os dois são acidentalmente transportados para a Zona, uma realidade virtual na qual Bob aprisiona a mais recente presa de Ilia, uma arma biológica chamada Zeram. Os nativos do planeta Terra devem sobreviver à experiência e ajudar Ilia a capturar Zeram antes que a Zona desapareça ao redor deles.
Neko Neko Fantasia
Director of Photography
Shiro é uma gatinha que ama muito sua família. Ela queria muito poder dar presentes para todos, então, em uma noite, ela pede que a Lua a transforme em humana, e seu desejo se torna realidade.
Judge
Director of Photography
What comes around goes around...even from beyond the grave. Most criminals are only concerned with earthly justice - the laws of man. All too often, the guilty go free, their deeds unpunished. But there is another law. Deep within the spirit world, the wrongful dead seek retribution for the crimes against them by the living. These restless spirits have their own code of justice, and they've chosen the Judge of Darkness and his Demons of Hell to enforce them. An appeal for justice leads to an investigation of a successful, high-ranking corporate executive. Who would believe he'd be involved with embezzlement and murder? But the Judge of Darkness soon discovers that the roots of corruption run deep as he slowly works his way up the corporate pyramid.
Sukeban Deka
Director of Photography
Saki Asamiya is given a chance to delay her mother's execution by working as an undercover cop and infiltrating Takanoha High School to investigate some mysterious deaths among the student body. Once there, she comes face-to-face with the powerful Mizuchi sisters, who moved in and have taken control after her previous expulsion.
A Lenda do Demônio
Director of Photography
A cada três mil anos, um demônio vem ao nosso mundo com o intuito de promover o equilíbrio dos três reinos: O dos demônios, dos homens e o dos semi-demônios (metade humanos). O metade homem e metade demônio Amano vem à nossa realidade à procura do Deus Supremo, que irá despertar a qualquer momento. Com cenas de conteúdo erótico explícito.
Shuten Doji - The Star Hand Kid
Director of Photography
Student Jiro Shutendo is unaware that he has mystical powers which could lead mankind to heaven or hell.
Ninja do Futuro
Production Design
Em um futuro distante, o Exército Mecânico do Soberano das Trevas está atacando o Clã Suwabeh, com o intuito de sequestrar a Princesa Saki. No calor da batalha, vários homens morrem e o corpo de um deles é levado pelo vilão Raimei que apaga a sua memória e o transforma em Mirai Ninja (Shiranui). Quando as memórias de Shiranui estão começando a vir à tona, ele decide deter o plano de Raimei, que é o de derramar o sangue da Princesa Saki para trazer o Soberano das Trevas de volta à vida.
Mighty Jack
Production Design
The organization Mighty Jack is formed to combat the criminal syndicate known as "Q", and are given a large array of advanced weapons, chief among them being a high-tech submarine. Harold Hatari is abducted by Q, and Mighty Jack is dispatched to rescue him. Hatari is interrogated and threatened with blinding lights, but the Mighty Jack crew rescue him in the nick of time. Later, Q is discovered to be using "hot ice" (water that remains solid at room temperature) to create weapons and a secret ocean base disguised as an iceberg (though it's not precisely clear how hot ice could be a major world threat). Q then attempts to take over the Mighty Jack sub.
Kaze to Ki no Uta Sanctus: Sei Naru Kana
Director of Photography
Son of a viscount and a Roma prostitute (both deceased), Serge is intelligent, sweet, talented, and alienated by his family due to his heritage. Upon being sent to his new school, he rooms with Gilbert Cocteau, a gorgeous loner of a boy who sells his body for reasons unknown. Serge's attempts to reach out to Gilbert fail spectacularly, and yet there is something in both of them that attracts them to each other.
Maryuu Senki
Director of Photography
Once upon a time, there was a certain family having strong influence on the rule of the Imperial Court. They had their own might called “Kidou,” and yet got hated because of the might itself. At last, the patriarch of the family was entrapped to his death, and all the family was doomed to ruin... The present day — the survived descendants of this family, now calling themselves “Kidousyuu,” schemed to resurrect their murdered patriarch once again, and the ferocious evil spell went into action.
Twinkle Heart: Let's NOT Reach the Galaxy
Director of Photography
God's two daughters Cherry and Lemon have been tasked with finding the lost treasure of Heaven, referred to as Love. Together with their guardian Berry, their search takes them to a planet where stuffed animals have come to life, putting them in direct conflict with Cecilian and the nefarious Treasure Connection.
Nayuta
Director of Photography
Nayuta is a normal school girl, until she meets a young boy named Kiro trying to help his sick mother. Nayuta takes them to the hospital, but inside Kiro's mother vanishes without explanation and Kiro runs away. Later that night Kiro shows up at Nayuta's house and shows her his psychic powers, enabled by a mysterious tiara he wears.
Running Boy Star Soldier's Secret
Director of Photography
Genta Shinoyama is a video game freak who suddenly finds himself dumped into war against galactic pirates - for real.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Director of Photography
Sangokushi is set in the waning days of the Han dynasty. Central rule has disintegrated, and the land is controlled by multiple warlords. Liu Bei Xuande is a warrior who aspires to build a just state and to serve the people.
Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the World of Magic
Director of Photography
Nobita requests of Doraemon the Moshimo-box and wishes for the world to become a place where the use of magic is possible. Witchcraft replaces science and technology and everyone makes use of it on their daily lives, except for Nobita, who, like usual, isn't very good at conjuring spells. Frustrated, he plans on returning things to their past state, but his mother threw the Moshimo-box away.
Submersion of Japan
Production Design
A team of geophysicists investigating seismic activity on the seafloor discover that the islands of Japan, after suffering from massive volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, will be pulled into the ocean, killing millions.