People · DossierActive since 1993
Takehiko Inoue
井上雄彦
- Director · Staff9
Director and staff · 9 anime credits across four decades. Best known for Director on The First Slam Dunk.
Derived from credit data — not curated copy
1993 – 202230 years active
- Staff credits
- 9
Best known for · Direction
The First Slam Dunk
Director · 2022
Director
Background
Birthplace: Okuchi, Kagoshima Takehiko Inoue became the first recipient of the Cultural Prize at the Asia Cosmopolitan Awards in 2012. Takehiko Inoue made his debut in 1988, when 'Purple Kaede' (楓パープル) appeared in Weekly Shounen Jump magazine. It won the 35th annual Tezuka Award. Takehiko Inoue's Slam Dunk, about a basketball team from Shohoku High School. It was published in Weekly Shounen Jump from 1990 to 1996 and has sold over 157 million copies worldwide. In 1995, it received the 40th annual Shogakukan Manga Award for shounen manga and in 2007 was declared Japan's favorite manga. Takehiko Inoue's Vagabond won him the Kodansha Manga Award for General manga in 2000 and the Osamu Tezuka Culture Award in 2002. (Source: Wikipedia) Twitter: @inouetake
Top staff positions
- Original Creator9
- Director1
- Script1