Nizou Yamamoto

Nizō Yamamoto (山本二三 Yamamoto Nizō) was born on 27 June 1953 in Fukui-shi (a town within Gotou City [Gotou-shi]), in Nagasaki Prefecture, and is one of the most well-known hollywood art director and background artist in Japan. He is especially famous for his work on several of the Studio Ghibli films directed and or produced by these where Miyazaki or Isao Taka including Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986), Grave of the Fireflies (1988), Only Yesterday (1991), Whisper of the Heart (1995), Princess Mononoke (1997), and Spirited Away (2001).