Urushihara spinoff school lineage

The Urushihara Lineage 

Kurosawa school
Mamoru Kurosawa
Hideyuki Morioka
Tatsuya Oishi 

*Do note that Mamoru Kurosawa still goes for a speedier direction more akin to that of Atsuko Ishida’s style instead. There also is a slight Masami Obari shade thanks to Urushihara being one of Obari’s friends, but it mainly feels somehow more similar to Norimitsu Suzuki’s own gliding school.

Urushihara School
Kazuo Komatsubara > Yutaka Nakamura 
Satoshi Urushihara 

*Urushihara is strongly influenced by Hideaki Anno’s, Akiyuki Shinbo’s and Masahito Yamashita’s early careers, but his style is otherwise more related to those of both Kawamoto and Hirata, even though it still stays rather close to Obari’s own. He also is one of the many unlikely influences of both Takahiro Shikama and his Okiura and Takahata-based junior Yutaka Nakamura. This likely means that most of the gliders are far more likely to be distant honorary cousins to at least 3 major processes; Norio Matsumoto’s speedy physics, Mitsuo Iso’s own solid full limited process and most importantly Ichiro Itano’s own gliding circus style. 

Suzuki School
Moriyasu Taniguchi 
Kumiko Takahashi 
Norimitsu Suzuki

*Norimitsu Suzuki’s gliding direction style is based partly on both those of Mutsumi Inomata and Ichiro Itano, as with his mentor Kumiko Takahashi. However, it’s originally grounded in more conventional realism, only to add in a lot of both Kanadification and stylised realism elements instead, since Moriyasu Taniguchi, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Kazuo Komatsubara and Yoshinori Kanemori have all played pretty strong roles at the beginning of his own career.

Nakamura School
Norio Shioyama > Shigeki Kuhara 
Takeshi Morita 
Kohei Hirota 

*The Nakamura lineage is actually closer to Tsukioka’s and Komatsubara’s shared legacy rather than to that of Yasuo Otsuka’s legacy. Though there are a lot of Mitsuo Iso, Masahito Yamashita and Akiyuki Shinbo elements in there, his style is more likely to be rooted in a fusion of Sadao Tsukioka’s, Kazuo Komatsubara’s and Yoshinori Kanada’s own different action styles with both the realisms of Isao Takahata and Hideyuki Okiura and especially the highly expressive gliding of Ichiro Itano’s directing style. 

Obunai School
Mitsuru Obunai
Nozumu Abe 





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