Mahiro Maeda Trailers
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Mahiro Maeda (前田 真宏 Maeda Mahiro) born March 14, 1963 is one of the most prominent Japanese anime creators working today, having worked as director, character designer, and animator for many of Japan's top series. Helen McCarthy in 500 Essential Anime Movies called him "one of the most imaginative visualists in anime". He also worked on Concept Art and Design for Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), which won six Academy Awards.
He has been one of the top contributors at the anime studio GONZO for many years, having directed Blue Submarine No. 6, Final Fantasy: Unlimited and Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo.
His design work ranges from 2 of the "Angels" in Neon Genesis Evangelion to production and mechanical design for such series as Magic User's Club (魔法使いTai! Mahō Tsukai Tai!), The Vision of Escaflowne and Last Exile. He was also the designer of the invaders in Gatekeepers 21.
His earlier years were spent mostly at the famed Studio Ghibli, where he helped animate classics such as Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Castle in the Sky, and Porco Rosso.
Maeda is also one of the select Japanese directors to actively collaborate with the international film media on various projects. He provided key animation for the animation sequence in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol. 1. His directorial work has also been featured in such exclusive package films as The Animatrix (segment: "The Second Renaissance Parts I and II"), Genius Party Beyond (segment: "Gala"), and Ani*Kuri15 (segment: "Princess Onmitsu").
He has also visited the American Anime Expo convention in 2000 and 2003.
Most Popular Mahiro Maeda Trailers
Total trailers found: 48
13 May 2015
An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life.
10 October 2003
An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.
29 July 2016
When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens.
21 June 1991
The third and final specially edited memorial episode featuring Jean’s narration. This is a breath-taking sea adventure action animation.
05 May 2003
The battle for Earth turns against the humans, despite their infamous desperate act of blackening the skies.
02 August 1986
A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.
18 July 1992
In Italy in the 1930s, sky pirates in biplanes terrorize wealthy cruise ships as they sail the Adriatic Sea.
17 January 2025
High-school student Amate Yuzuriha lives peacefully in a space colony floating in outer space. But when she meets a war refugee named Nyaan, Amate is drawn into the illegal mobile suit dueling sport known as Clan Battle.
09 May 2003
Straight from the creators of the groundbreaking Matrix trilogy, this collection of short animated films from the world's leading anime directors fuses computer graphics and Japanese anime to provide the background of the Matrix universe and the conflict between man and machines.
04 February 2003
Tells the early history of how conflict began between the humans and machines. Part 1 of 2.
31 March 2023
"Shin Kamen Rider" is the first live-action film directed by Hideaki Anno since "Shin Godzilla" seven years ago.
06 March 1999
With the Gyaos re-emerging, Gamera's ties to humanity have been severed with his bond to Asagi broken.
10 December 1987
When the school Karate club's star fighter quits and decides to go pro, he unwittingly fulfills an ancient interdimensional prophecy and becomes demon king of his dimension.
10 July 2012
The short focuses on the God Warrior from Nausicaa of The Valley of The Wind (1984). Super-powered bio-weapons in ceramic armor begin attacking Tokyo, annihilating human civilization.
08 March 2021
In the aftermath of the Fourth Impact, stranded without their Evangelions, Shinji, Asuka and Rei find refuge in one of the rare pockets of humanity that still exist on the ruined planet Earth.
19 July 1997
SEELE orders an all-out attack on NERV, aiming to destroy the Evas before Gendo can advance his own plans for the Human Instrumentality Project.
20 August 1983
A girl is visited by two men from a space ship. They give her water she needs for her daicon (radish).
22 May 2006
Jr. High School Student Wataru and his friends like playing in an abandond building and looking for ghosts.
17 November 2012
Fourteen years after Third Impact, Shinji Ikari awakens to a world he does not remember. He hasn't aged.
21 July 1987
An anthology of various tales told in various styles with robots being the one common element among them.
26 June 2009
Under constant attack by monstrous creatures called Angels that seek to eradicate humankind, U.N. Special Agency NERV introduces two new EVA pilots to help defend the city of Tokyo-3: the mysterious Makinami Mari Illustrous and the intense Asuka Langley Shikinami.
01 November 1995
Rally Vincent and Minnie May Hopkins are just a pair of gun shop owners who do a bit of bounty hunting to make ends meet when a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms agent comes to them.
20 July 1991
In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self.
14 March 1987
On a future Earth, war between the Kingdom of Honneamise and its rival, The Republic, is inevitable. As evolving technology creates new ways to wage war, a small group seeks to propel mankind into space in their world’s first spaceflight program.
17 March 2023
A man forced to bear power and stripped of humanity. A woman skeptical of happiness. Takeshi Hongo, an Augmentation made by SHOCKER, and Ruriko Midorikawa, a rebel of the organization, escape while fighting off assassins.
03 June 2003
A short documentary on Japanese animation featured on the DVD for The Animatrix (2003).
07 January 2006
It is 300 years into the future. Earth's environment had been devastated by mankind's own foolish plans and humankind is beleaguered by the sentient forests which they have awoken.
15 February 2008
Depicted in a mostly playful manner, a gagaku-fantasy as never ever seen before!
01 April 1985
Short pilot film from year 1985 for the Royal Space Force movie that came out two years later.
13 March 2015
Based on the novel “Adam Stvořitel” by Karel Čapek: angry at the world for its imperfections, Adam destroys everything except himself.
08 November 2015
A documentary about Hideaki Anno's project, Japan Animator Expo.
25 July 2015
A bad man becomes a superhero and goes on a rampage.
08 March 2023
120 minutes before "EVANGELION:3.0 YOU CAN (NOT) REDO."
28 August 1991
A pilot film for an unmade Gainax anime that was planned to follow their first movie, Royal Space Force: Wings of Honneamise.
12 July 1996
A strange meteor lands in Japan and unleashes hundreds of insect-like "Legion" creatures bent on colonizing the Earth.
15 March 2022
Anime, live action and music by cutting-edge artist Eve — all woven together into this dreamlike sonic experience inspired by the story of Adam and Eve.
23 November 2016
Short animation made to celebrate Studio Khara’s 10th anniversary.
23 November 2013
The short features previously unseen Evangelion storyboard art. Evangelion director Hideaki Anno supervised the "petit film," and Mahiro Maeda directed and storyboarded it.
11 October 2008
Five stories, five maestros, five styles and one common denominator: maximum creativity. Studio 4°C, the coolest label on the planet, invites us for the second time to an exclusive reunion of a talents with a group film, full of freedom and ingenuity, that goes from Mahiro Maeda's classic anime, to Kazuto Nakazawa's intricate urban sketches, Shinya Ohira's bedlam of color and Tatsuyuki Tanaka's animated cyberpunk.
19 December 1987
Genji, the son of the emperor, is the talk of the Kyoto nobility for his charm and good looks, yet he cannot stop himself from pursuing an unobtainable object of desire: his father's young and beautiful bride.
05 September 1984
Aqualoid was a prosperous planet, but an attack from a mysterious life force, the Inorganics, transforms it into a post-apocalyptic shell of its former self.
20 January 2023
Yuuta Hibiki wakes up in the room of Rikka Takarada and notices two things: he has no memories, and he can hear a mysterious voice calling his name from a nearby room.
07 June 2008
15 one-minute shorts created by various people from Japan's animation industry. The title of the collection, Ani*Kuri15, is abbreviated from the words "anime" and "creators".
28 March 2023
A TV special which contained the first 23 minutes of "Shin Kamen Rider" footage and was broadcasted on MBS in order to promote the movie.
06 February 2016
The Sky Pirate Fam and Millia (the princess who Fam rescued as her Turan Kingdom faced devastation) wage a battle against the Ades Federation that reduced Turan to ashes, and aim to establish a revived Turan Kingdom.
12 December 2014
The strange adventure of a woman that shrinks to the size of a cockroach.
22 August 1981
A short anime film that was produced for the 1981 Daicon III Nihon SF Taikai convention.
14 December 1991
Because of a mysterious earring, Yumemi, a young japanese student, becomes involved in a mysterious story.
