is a Japanese CG director and visual effects artist. He is also the second production manager at

Shirogumi , member of The Association of Japanese Animations, is a company centralized in the production of animated series and feature films, as well as the making and adjusting of visual effects. History In 1973, Tatsuo Shimamura established . To expan ...

Chōfu is a city in the western side of Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 238,087, and a population density of 11,000 per km². the total area of the city is . Geography Chōfu is approximately in the south-center of ...

Studio. For the film ''

Godzilla Minus One is a 2023 Japanese Epic film, epic ''kaiju'' film written, directed, and with visual effects by Takashi Yamazaki. Produced by Toho Studios and Robot Communications and distributed by Toho, it is the 37th film in the Godzilla (franchise), ''Go ...

'' (2023), Takahashi (alongside visual effects supervisor Takashi Yamazaki, visual effects director

Kiyoko Shibuya is a Japanese visual effects director and film producer. She has worked on all of acclaimed filmmaker Takashi Yamazaki's films to date and has received four VFX-Japan Awards for her efforts, along with an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects f ...

, and visual effects compositor

Tatsuji Nojima is a Japanese visual effects artist and compositor. Life and career Nojima was born on October 13, 1998, in Suginami, Tokyo, Japan. In his childhood, Nojima was fascinated by '' Back to the Future'' and ''Pirates of the Caribbean'', which sp ...

) won the

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at the

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. Takahashi began his career at Shirogumi in 1990 and has since worked on several films, video games, television dramas, and exhibitions. Most notably, he has collaborated with famed filmmaker Takashi Yamazaki since his first film ''

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'' in 2000. In 2004, he became a lecturer at

Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts is a private university in Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan ...

Filmography

Films

* ''Juvenile'' (2000) * ''

Returner is a 2002 Japanese science fiction film directed by Takashi Yamazaki and starring Anne Suzuki and Takeshi Kaneshiro. Plot Milly is a soldier from 2084, where humanity is on the verge of extinction because of the "Daggra", an alien race. In mank ...

'' (2002) - Chief 3DCG artist * '' Always: Sunset on Third Street'' (2005) * '' Always: Sunset on Third Street 2'' (2007) * ''Ballad'' (2009) * ''

Space Battleship Yamato is a Japanese science fiction anime series produced and written by Yoshinobu Nishizaki, directed by manga artist Leiji Matsumoto, and produced by Academy Productions. The series aired in Yomiuri TV from October 6, 1974 to March 30, 1975, ...

'' (2010) * '' Always: Sunset on Third Street '64'' (2012) * ''The Eternal Zero'' (2013) * '' Parasyte: Part 1'' (2014) * '' Parasyte: Part 2'' (2015) * '' A Man Called Pirate'' (2016) * ''Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura'' (2017) * '' Code Blue: The Movie'' (2018) - VFX director ith Etsushi Sugawara* ''

The Great War of Archimedes ''The Great War of Archimedes'' (アルキメデスの大戦, Arukimedesu no taisen) is a 2019 Japanese historical film about the building of the battleship ''Japanese battleship Yamato, Yamato''. Based on a manga by Norifusa Mita, the movie is a ...

'' (2019) * ''

'' (2023) - 3D CG director

Video games

* ''

Shadows of the Damned is an action-adventure video game developed by Grasshopper Manufacture and published by Electronic Arts for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The game follows the story of Garcia Hotspur, a Mexican demon hunter who goes to the City of the Damned t ...

'' (2011) * ''

Dark Souls III is a 2016 action role-playing game developed by FromSoftware and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows. The third and final entry in the ''Dark Souls'' series, it is played in a Virtual camera system# ...

'' (2016)

References

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