Hideaki Anno

About Hideaki Anno

Hideaki Anno is a Japanese animator, filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, and occasional actor whose career links the fan-made roots of 1980s Japanese science-fiction culture with some of the most influential commercial anime and tokusatsu films of the modern era. Born in Ube, Yamaguchi, in 1960, he grew up absorbed by manga, animation, special-effects television, war stories, drawing, and amateur filmmaking. That…