Konaka Kazuya

Konaka Kazuya has been making 8mm films since secondary school. He was a great fan of the monster metamorphoses in the TV series Ultraman and of the series Black Jack by Japan's greatest Manga artist Tezuka Osamu. As a director he enthusiastically brings this fantasy world to life again for a growing mass of young fans.

Filmography

Hoshizora no mukou no kuni/The Land Beyond the Starry Sky (1986), Shigatsu kwaidan/Ghost Story in April (1988), Kuma-Chan/Dear My Bear (1993), Black Jack (for video-release, 1996), Defender (1997), Ultraman-Tiga & Ultraman-Dyna, Warriors of Light Stars (1998), The Dimension Traveller/Nazo no tenkou-sei (1999)