Kazuo Oga

Kazuo Oga (男鹿 和雄) is an art director and background artist for many Madhouse Studio and Studio Ghibli anime films. Oga has worked with major directors Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Osamu Dezaki. He also published two artbooks and directed a short animated film.

Director

 * The Night of Taneyamagahara (種山ヶ原の夜), 2006

Art director

 * Unico (ユニコ), 1979
 * Tomorrow's Joe 2 (あしたのジョー2), 1980
 * Barefoot Gen (はだしのゲン), 1983
 * Toki no Tabibito: Time Stranger (時空の旅人 -Time Stranger-), 1986
 * Wicked City (妖獣都市), 1987
 * My Neighbor Totoro (となりのトトロ), 1988
 * Girls in Summer Clothes (夏服の少女たち), 1988
 * Only Yesterday (おもひでぽろぽろ), 1991
 * Pom Poko (平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ), 1994
 * Princess Mononoke (もののけ姫), 1997
 * The Tale of Princess Kaguya (かぐや姫の物語), 2013

Assistant background art director

 * Treasure Island (宝島), 1978
 * Space Adventure Cobra: The Movie (スペースアドベンチャーコブラ), 1982

Background art

 * Panda! Go, Panda! and the Rainy-Day Circus (パンダコパンダ 雨降りサーカスの巻), 1973
 * Adventures of Ganba (ガンバの冒険), 1975
 * Nobody's Boy: Remi (家なき子), 1977
 * Makoto-chan (まことちゃん), 1980
 * Harmagedon: Genma Wars (幻魔大戦 ‒ハルマゲドン‒), 1983
 * Unico in the Island of Magic (ユニコ 魔法の島へ), 1983
 * Lensman (SF 新世紀 レンズマン), 1984
 * The Dagger of Kamui (カムイの剣), 1985
 * Barefoot Gen 2 (はだしのゲン2), 1986
 * Hoero! Bun Bun (ほえろブンブン), 1987
 * Bride of Deimos (悪魔の花嫁 蘭の組曲), 1988
 * Demon City Shinjuku (魔界都市 新宿), 1988
 * Goku: Midnight Eye (Midnight Eye ゴクウ), 1989
 * Kiki's Delivery Service (魔女の宅急便), 1989
 * Urusei Yatsura: Always My Darling (うる星やつら いつだってマイ・ダーリン), 1991
 * Porco Rosso (紅の豚), 1992
 * Ninja Scroll (獣兵衛忍風帖), 1993
 * On Your Mark (オン・ユア・マーク), 1995
 * Whisper of the Heart (耳をすませば), 1995
 * Rurouni Kenshin: The Motion Picture (るろうに剣心 -明治剣客浪漫譚- 維新志士への鎮魂歌), 1997
 * Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (吸血鬼ハンターD ブラッドラスト), 2000
 * Spirited Away (千と千尋の神隠し), 2001
 * InuYasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time (映画犬夜叉 時代を越える想い), 2001
 * The Cat Returns (猫の恩返し), 2002
 * Fantastic Children (ファンタジックチルドレン), 2004
 * Howl's Moving Castle (ハウルの動く城), 2004
 * The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (時をかける少女), 2006
 * Tales from Earthsea (ゲド戦記), 2006
 * Highlander: The Search for Vengeance (?), 2007
 * Ponyo (崖の上のポニョ), 2008
 * Kawa no Hikari (川の光), 2009
 * Summer Wars (サマーウォーズ), 2009
 * The Secret World of Arrietty (借りぐらしのアリエッティ), 2010
 * A Letter to Momo (ももへの手紙), 2012
 * Mary and the Witch's Flower (メアリと魔女の花), 2017
 * The Boy and the Heron (君たちはどう生きるか), 2023

Art books

 * Kazuo Oga Art Collection (Oga Kazuo Gashuu). Tokuma Shoten, 1996. ISBN 4-19-860526-2
 * Kazuo Oga Art Collection II (Oga Kazuo Gashuu II). Tokuma Shoten, 2005. ISBN 4-19-862074-1

Exhibition
The Museum of Contemporary Art, in Tokyo, Japan sponsored an exhibition called Kazuo Oga – The Man Who Drew Totoro's Forest from July 21, 2007 through September 30, 2007. A documentary about this exhibition Oga Kazuo Exhibition: Ghibli No Eshokunin – The One Who Painted Totoro's Forest (ジブリの絵職人　男鹿和雄展　トトロの森を描いた人) was released on DVD and Blu-ray.