Began to work as an animation artist in 1973.
IMDb Mini Biography By: Oliver HeidelbachWas quoted as saying the Vietnam era "rebel" movies Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Five Easy Pieces (1970) (among others) were his chief inspiration for his writing work and subsequently, Domu and Akira (1988).
A fan of James Dean's "Rebel Without a Cause" and Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey".
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