He also wrote screenplays for the Space Battleship Yamato anime, co-directed Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight, and handled many other projects throughout his career.
Yamamoto’s final anime film for MushiPro prior to it going bankrupt would be the cult classic Belladonna of Sadness. He went on to direct episodes of Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion, the Cleopatra anime film, and more. He then became one of the founding Mushi Production members in 1961, co-directing Tales of the Street Corner, the studio’s first work. Yamamoto got his start in animation when he joined Ryuichi Yokoyama’s Otogi Productions, shortly after which he caught wind of a new studio being started up by the God of Manga himself, Osamu Tezuka. 2019 - June 2019 Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd., Engineering Intern & Part-Time Engineer Worked on data analysis and developed recommendation engine. 2019 NEC Datascience Research Laboratories, Research Intern Worked on speech enhancement. 435 S Virgil Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90020, USA is his former address. Advisor: Kentaro Tachibana & Ryuichi Yamamoto Aug. Chai Y Hong, Chih-shun Hong, and two other persons are also associated with this address. 2051 Fair Oaks Avenu, South Pasadena, CA 91030-4605 is the current address for Ryuichi. Despite being sick for the past few years, Yamamoto had maintained his enthusiasm for creating works and anime in general. Three alternative names are known: Ryuiati Yamamoto, Ryuich Yamamoto, Ryuichi Hong. Yamamoto was 80 years old, and his close family held a funeral for him on September 12.Īccording to event organizers, a family member contacted them and told them the news after they saw a listing for the Belladonna of Sadness screening on social media. As announced during a Tokyo screening of 1973’s Belladonna of Sadness over the weekend, the anime film’s director, Eiichi Yamamoto, passed away due to heart failure on September 7.
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