Mitsuhisa Ishikawa

Mitsuhisa Ishikawa (石川 光久, Ishikawa Mitsuhisa; born October 30, 1958) is a Japanese anime producer and planner, as well as the co-founder and current chairman of the anime studio Production I.G.^[1][2]

Mitsuhisa Ishikawa
石川 光久
Mitsuhisa Ishikawa in 2015
Born	(1958-10-30) October 30, 1958 (age 66) Hachiōji, Tokyo, Japan
Occupations	Anime executive producer film producer television producer project developer studio executive
Years active	1981-present
Employers	Tatsunoko Production (1981–1987) Production I.G (1987–present)
Known for	Founder of Production I.G
Title	President of IG Port Chairman of Production I.G
Board member of	Non-executive director of Tatsunoko Production

Career

Mitsuhisa Ishikawa was an executive at Bee Train from 1997 to 2006,^[3][4]

Ishikawa acted as executive producer for the anime sequence The Origin of Ren in Kill Bill, and was the producer of the first two Ghost in the Shell films.^[5] In 2005, Ishikawa joined his first joint Japanese-U.S. collaboration, since the opening of the Production I.G branch in Los Angeles, IGPX: Immortal Grand Prix, a joint production with Production I.G and Cartoon Network.^[6] Ishikawa has also produced Batman: Gotham Knight, Halo Legends and Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic.

Ishikawa is also one of the owners of Tatsunoko Productions and a part-time director.^[7]