Takeshi Yagi is a Japanese director, producer, and a special effects director, known for directing many Ultraman Series episodes during the Heisei era.
Career
Yagi joined Tsuburaya Productions in the 1990s after film research at Hayata University.
In 1996, Yagi directed a TV series for the first time as a director of Moon Spiral. He's also a assistant director of Ultraman Tiga, Ultraman Dyna, and Ultraman Gaia.
He has since gone on to produce most of the Ultraman Series at Tsuburaya Productions, including 2004's Ultra Q: Dark Fantasy as general director. Series producer of Ultraman Max in 2005, and general director again for Ultraseven X in 2007.
Yagi quit Tsuburaya Productions in January 2008 and started working as a freelance director/producer.
Works
- Ultraseven - Operation: Solar Energy (1994) - Assistant director
- Ultraseven - Planet of the Earthlings (1994) - Assistant director
- Moon Spiral (1996) - Director
- Ultraman Tiga (1996-1997) - Assistant director
- Ultraman Dyna (1997-1998) - Assistant director
- Ultraman Gaia (1998-1999) - Assistant director and director, 1 episode
- Episode 49 "An Angel Descends" (director and special effects director)
- Booska! Booska!! (1999) - Director, 1 episode
- Episode 33 "Booska's lover?"
- Ultraman Tiga: The Final Odyssey (2000) - Visual effects coordinator
- Ultraman Gaia: Gaia Again (2001) - Director
- Ultraman Cosmos (2001-2002) - Director and special effects director, 10 episodes
- Episode 7 "Present from the Sky" (director)
- Episode 8 "Sleeping Maiden" (director)
- Episode 19 "Lover of the Star" (director and special effects director)
- Episode 20 "Musashi's Sky" (director and special effects director)
- Episode 33 "Monster Hunter" (director and special effects director)
- Episode 34 "Wrath of the Sea God" (director and special effects director)
- Episode 45 "The Amusement Park Legend" (director and special effects director)
- Episode 46 "The Miraculous Flower" (director and special effects director)
- Episode 59 "The Greatest Invasion" (director and special effects director)
- Episode 60 "Chaos War" (director and special effects director)
- Ultra Q: Dark Fantasy (2004) - Main Director, directed 5 episodes
- Episode 1 "Dancing Garagon"
- Episode 5 "The Slave of Hieronymus"
- Episode 17 "Komachi"
- Episode 21 "The Night Fog, This Evening..."
- Episode 23 "ALICE in the 365 degree world"
- Ultraman Nexus (2005) - Director, 4 episode
- Episode 17 "Darkness"
- Episode 18 "Apocalypse"
- Episode 30 "Guardian - Watcher -"
- Episode 31 "Bird"
- Ultraman Max (2005-2006) - Producer and director, 8 episodes
- Episode 13 "Zetton's Daughter"
- Episode 14 "Love and King Joe"
- Episode 25 "A Distant Friend"
- Episode 26 "Elly of Christmas"
- Episode 27 "The Taken Max Spark"
- Episode 37 "Constellation Thief"
- Episode 38 "Prelude to Ground Annihilation"
- Episode 39 "Hold On To! Future"
- Ultraman Mebius - Director, 2 episode
- Episode 31 "Thoughts of Friends"
- Episode 32 "The Monster Master's Legacy"
- Ultraseven X (2007) - Main Director[1]
- Episode 1 "DREAM"
- Episode 2 "CODE NAME "R""
- Episode 9 "RED MOON"
- Episode 11 "AQUA PROJECT"
- Episode 12 "NEW WORLD"
- Superior 8 Ultra Brothers (2008) - Director
- Operation: Mystery - Mystery File (2013) - Special effects technology
Other Works
Books
- Ultraman Max's 15th Anniversary Testimony (2021, Rittosha) - Supervised and edited[4]
- Ultraman Tiga's 25th Anniversary Testimony (2021, Rittosha) - Supervised and edited[5]
- Ultraman Dyna's 25th Anniversary Testimony (2021, Rittosha) - Supervised and edited[6]
- The Golden Age of Special Effects: The Successor of Eiji Tsuburaya (2022, Rittosha) - Supervised and edited
- Ultraseven X's 15th Anniversary Testimony (2023, Rittosha) - Supervised and edited[7]
- The Adventures of Akio Jissoji: Creation and Aesthetics (2023, Rittosha) - Author
References