Nobuo Tomizawa
Directing
1951-12-26
Nobuo Tomizawa (富沢 信雄, Tomizawa Nobuo, born December 26, 1951) is a Japanese anime animator and director. He is a member and director of Telecom Animation Film. He is a member of Japanese Animation Creators Association (JAniCA). Around 1974, he began working as an illustrator on works for Nippon Animation, where he met Hayao Miyazaki, Yasuo Otsuka, Isao Takahata, and others. His work on “Future Boy Conan” led him to work on “Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro”, and he joined Telecom Animation Film in 1979. After that, he worked as an animator on “Lupin the Third” (second TV series) and “Chie the Brat” at Telecom, and then studied directing with Hayao Miyazaki on “Sherlock Hound.” Even after Miyazaki left Telecom, he continued to be a central figure at Telecom, directing many of the company's productions. Currently, in addition to his main job, he also works as a manager, serving as the director of Telecom Animation Film.
Filmography
Digimon Beatbreak
2025 · Series
LUPIN THE IIIRD: The Movie - The Immortal Bloodline
2025 · Movie
Blue Box
2024 · Series
Astro Note
2024 · Series
The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse
2023 · Series
LUPIN ZERO
2022 · Series
Shenmue the Animation
2022 · Series
To Your Eternity
2021 · Series
We Rent Tsukumogami
2018 · Series
Chain Chronicle: The Light of Haecceitas
2017 · Series
Orange: Future
2016 · Movie
Trickster
2016 · Series
Orange
2016 · Series
Lupin the Third: Italian Game
2016 · Movie
Hyohyo: Dear Mr. Yasuo Otsuka
2015 · Movie
Aikatsu!
2012 · Series
Detective Conan: The Lost Ship in the Sky
2010 · Movie
From Me to You: Kimi ni Todoke
2009 · Series
At the Mercy of the Sky
2009 · Series
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
2009 · Series
The Daughter of Twenty Faces
2008 · Series
The Piano Forest
2007 · Movie
Ramen Fighter Miki
2006 · Series
Futakoi
2004 · Series
Patlabor WXIII the Movie
2002 · Movie
The Tigger Movie
2000 · Movie
Animaniacs: Wakko's Wish
1999 · Movie
Cybersix
1999 · Series
Case Closed: The Fourteenth Target
1998 · Movie
Superman: The Animated Series
1996 · Series
Lupin the Third: Farewell to Nostradamus
1995 · Movie
Lupin the Third: Greatest Capers
1995 · Movie
Pom Poko
1994 · Movie
Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation
1992 · Movie
Uncle Remodelling Course
1990 · Movie
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
1989 · Movie
Sherlock Hound
1984 · Series
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland Pilot 2
1984 · Movie
Chie the Brat
1981 · Movie
The New Adventures of Gigantor
1980 · Series
The Castle of Cagliostro
1979 · Movie
Anne of Green Gables
1979 · Series
Future Boy Conan
1978 · Series
Lupin the 3rd
1971 · Series