Chikara Sakurai

Visual EffectsDirectingArtDirector 1995–2025 (30 year career)

7.3 avg rating

Highest Rated

Naruto Shippūden

2007 · Director

8.5

Naruto Shippūden

2007 · Key Animation

8.5

Naruto Shippūden

2007 · Opening/Ending Animation

8.5

Known For

Film

Naruto Shippūden

Director

Film

Naruto

Animation Director

Film

One-Punch Man

Director

Film

Rurouni Kenshin

Key Animation

Film

Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor

Director

Film

Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie

Animation Director

Film

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

Key Animation

Film

Naruto Shippuden the Movie: Blood Prison

Animation Director

Filmography

Crew (74)

Movies (19)

COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing

2025

Key Animation

7.6

COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing

Second Unit Director

Blue Thermal

Animation

Monster Strike The Movie: To The Place of Beginnings

2016

Key Animation

3.1

Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie

2012

Animation Director

7.4

Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie

Storyboard Artist

Psychic School Wars

Key Animation

Naruto Shippuden the Movie: Blood Prison

2011

Animation Director

7.3

Naruto Shippuden the Movie: Blood Prison

2011

Supervising Animation Director

7.3

Naruto Shippuden the Movie: The Lost Tower

2010

Supervising Animation Director

7.2

Welcome to the Space Show

2010

Concept Artist

6.5

Welcome to the Space Show

2010

Key Animation

6.5

Naruto Shippuden the Movie: The Will of Fire

2009

Supervising Animation Director

7.4

The Sky Crawlers

2008

Key Animation

6.7

Naruto the Movie: Guardians of the Crescent Moon Kingdom

2006

Animation Director

7.1

Naruto the Movie: Guardians of the Crescent Moon Kingdom

2006

Key Animation

7.1

Naruto: The Lost Story - Mission: Protect the Waterfall Village!

Key Animation

Saiyuki: Requiem

Key Animation

You're Under Arrest: The Motion Picture

1999

Key Animation

5.9

Television (55)

Astro Note

2024

Storyboard Artist

6.4

YOHANE THE PARHELION -SUNSHINE in the MIRROR

2023

Director

8.2

YOHANE THE PARHELION -SUNSHINE in the MIRROR

2023

Storyboard Artist

8.2

Shenmue the Animation

2022

Director

7.2

Shenmue the Animation

2022

Series Director

7.2

Shenmue the Animation

Storyboard Artist

LUPIN ZERO

Storyboard Artist

The Millionaire Detective – Balance: UNLIMITED

2020

Storyboard Artist

7.0

Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor

2017

Director

8.4

Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor

Storyboard Artist

Taboo Tattoo

Director

Taboo Tattoo

Layout Supervisor

Taboo Tattoo

Storyboard Artist

One-Punch Man

Director

One-Punch Man

Opening/Ending Animation

One-Punch Man

Series Director

One-Punch Man

Storyboard Artist

Magimoji Rurumo

Director

Magimoji Rurumo

Series Director

Little Busters!

Director

The Qwaser of Stigmata

Key Animation

Naruto Shippūden

Director

Naruto Shippūden

Key Animation

Naruto Shippūden

Opening/Ending Animation

Naruto Shippūden

Storyboard Artist

Darker than Black

Key Animation

Welcome to the N-H-K

Key Animation

Innocent Venus

Key Animation

Chocotto Sister

Key Animation

Emma: A Victorian Romance

Key Animation

Honey and Clover

Animation Director

Honey and Clover

Key Animation

Kamichu!

Key Animation

Otogi Zoshi: The Legend of Magatama

Key Animation

MoonPhase

Key Animation

Le Portrait de Petite Cossette

Key Animation

Wolf's Rain

Key Animation

Gungrave

Key Animation

Naruto

Animation Director

Naruto

Key Animation

Naruto

Opening/Ending Animation

8.4

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED

2002

Key Animation

7.6

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

Key Animation

Tokyo Mew Mew

Key Animation

Heat Guy J

Key Animation

Tokyo Underground

Key Animation

Witch Hunter Robin

Key Animation

.hack//Liminality

Key Animation

Hikaru no Go

Key Animation

Noir

Key Animation

Kaze no Yojimbo

Key Animation

Kokoro Library

Animation Director

Rurouni Kenshin

Key Animation

Midori no Makibaō

Key Animation

Saint Tail

Key Animation