FUKUSHIMA, Hal

Hal Fukushima

福島 治

aka Haru Fukushima

b. 福島治次 Harutsugu FUKUSHIMA, 1941 (Shizuoka Prefecture)

• saw the second Animation Sannin no Kai in 1962 and was inspired to go into independent animation himself
• worked as an animator on Hiroshi Manabe's Space Bird (宇宙鳥, 1965)
• made his independent animation debut with A Story of the Planet Moston
• regular contributor to Minna no Uta (NHK), animating 11 shorts for the show between 1970 and 1999.
• contributed a short to Kihachiro Kawamoto's renku animation Winter Days (2003)
• founder of the animation studio Anime-ya.
• a member of the animation collective G9+1