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Born Jimmy Teru Murakami in San Jose, CA. After studying at Los Angeles he entered U.P.A. Pictures. In 1960 he left the United States and worked in various countries: in Japan for Toei, in France, Italy, the Netherlands and in Great Britain from 1961 to 1964, working with George Dunning in TV cartoons at London. In 1965, again in California, he joined up with Fred Wolf to found Murakami-Wolf, and in 1972 he moved to Ireland where he set up his own production company. In 1987 he made the feature-lenght film WHEN THE WIND BLOWS. The film attempted to bring an adult audinece to the world of animation and was fully in line with the commitment Murakami has always maintained -- in his own artistic and imaginative creations, and in his activity as a producer and promoter of a European industry of high-quality animation.
His other credits include THE BOX (1967), THE RED BARON (1971), BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS and HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP (both 1980) and CHRISTMAS CAROL: THE MOVIE (2001). He was animation director on the BBC-TV production of "The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe (1988).
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Nominated for Short Subjects (Cartoons)