is a Japanese

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entrepreneur, the co-founder and current president and CEO of

Production I.G is a Japanese animation studio and production enterprise, founded on December 15, 1987, by Mitsuhisa Ishikawa and headquartered in Musashino, Tokyo, Japan. The letters I and G derive from the names of the company founders: producer Mitsuhisa Ish ...

, as well as a producer for the studio.

Career

Mitsuhisa Ishikawa was executive at

Bee Train , commonly referred to simply as Bee Train, is a Japanese animation studio founded by Kōichi Mashimo in 1997. Since their involvement with '' Noir'', '' .hack//Sign'', and ''Madlax'' (among other series) they have a strong following in the yuri f ...

from 1997 to 2006, Ishikawa acted as executive producer for the anime sequence ''The Origin of Ren'' in ''

Kill Bill ''Kill Bill: Volume 1'' is a 2003 American martial arts film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It stars Uma Thurman as the Bride, who swears revenge on a team of assassins (Lucy Liu, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, and Vivica A. Fox) an ...

'', and was the producer of the first two '' Ghost in the Shell'' films. In 2005, Ishikawa joined his first joint Japanese-U.S. collaboration, since the opening of the Production I.G branch in

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, '' IGPX: Immortal Grand Prix'', a joint production with Production I.G and

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. Ishikawa has also produced '' Batman: Gotham Knight'', '' Halo Legends'' and '' Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic''. Ishikawa is also one of the owners of

Tatsunoko Productions and often shortened to , is a Japanese animation company. The studio's name has a double meaning in Japanese: "Tatsu's child" (Tatsu is a nickname for Tatsuo) and "sea dragon", the inspiration for its seahorse logo. Tatsunoko's headquarters are i ...

and a part-time director.

References

External links

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Mitsuhisa Ishikawa Profile
at Production I.G.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Ishikawa, Mitsuhisa Production I.G Living people Japanese anime producers Japanese animated film producers Japanese film producers 1958 births