Hironobu Sakaguchi

Hironobu Sakaguchi (1962) is the father of the Final Fantasy franchise. While no longer working at Squaresoft (now Square Enix), he has carried on to work a video games development company Mistwalker, which being backed by Microsoft. With this company, he has helped released traditional Japanese Role-Playing games for the Xbox 360 and hybrid Role-Playing titles for the Nintendo DS. He is still making video games even to this day. Hironobu Sakaguchi was the third person inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' Hall of Fame.

In 2001, he had directed his first film, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. However, many fans of the franchise felt that the movie wasn't true to the games. It became the second largest animated box office bomb ever in cinema history. Despite this fact, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is still an original and brilliant title, and its CG Graphics are still impressive even today. Unfortunately this was Sakaguchi-san's first and last film, and became the reason for him resign from his post as an executive vice-president at Squaresoft.

Filmography

Hironobu Sakaguchi - filmography

Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within - Blu-ray (2001)
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Ving Rhames, Ming-Na Wen
Director: Sakakibara Motonori, Hironobu Sakaguchi
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Directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi (who also created the best-selling series of video games that inspired the film), the groundbreaking FINAL FANTASY, which stars a startlingly lifelike cast of animated characters, is the first photo-realistic computer-generated feature film ever made. In the year 2065,..read more »

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Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within on DVD (2001)
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Ving Rhames, Ming-Na Wen
Director: Hironobu Sakaguchi
Certificate:
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Directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi (who also created the best-selling series of video games that inspired the film), the groundbreaking FINAL FANTASY, which stars a startlingly lifelike cast of animated characters, is the first photo-realistic computer-generated feature film ever made. In the year 2065,..read more »

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