Nobutaka Nishizawa
- Director
- Producer
- Art Department
Nobutaka Nishizawa debuted as technical director in several episodes of
the TV animation series "Hustle Punch" (1965-66). After directing
episodes of "Muretsu Ataro", "Gegege no Kitaro" and "Great Mazinger",
Toei offered him the chance of directing the second film based in the
manga by Gô Nagai & Dynamic Pro., entitled "Mazinger-Z Vs. General
Darkness" in 1974. In 1979 he directed several episodes of the TV
series "Galaxy Express 999" created by Reiji Matsumoto, with such good
results that later he was promoted to chief director of several TV
Movies and the second film of that series, "Galaxy Express 999: Clea of
Glass" (1980). He is also chief director of all the "Shonan Bakusozoku:
Bomber Bikers of Shonan" (1986-98) Original Video Animation
Series.
