Jimmy Murakami

Born: 5th June 1933 in San Jose, California. Jimmy Murakami is a Japanese-American film director and animator. Among his best-known works are the animated adaptations of the Raymond Briggs books When the Wind Blows and The Snowman, as well as doing the animation for The Chronicles Of Narnia. He formed Murakami-Wolf Films with Fred Wolf. Murakami was nominated for an Academy Award for Animated Short Film for The Magic Pear Tree (1968). He directed the music video for [m28824], the single from the album [m28811] and was the subject of a 2010 feature documentary film Jimmy Murakami - Non Alien which premiered in Dublin at the 2010 IFI Stranger than Fiction Film Festival. Murakami now lives in Ireland.