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name: "Masao Maruyama"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/masao-maruyama"
fi1m_id: "masao-maruyama"
imdb_id: "nm0555470"
tmdb_id: 67475
wikidata_id: "Q3297177"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "19 June 1941"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 84
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-24T05:06:29.040050+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Masao Maruyama

## Identity

Masao Maruyama

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/masao-maruyama
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** masao-maruyama
- **IMDb ID:** nm0555470
- **TMDB ID:** 67475
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3297177
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masao_Maruyama_(film_producer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3297177, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0555470/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/67475

Producer. Born 19 June 1941 in Shiogama, Miyagi, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 19 June 1941, Shiogama, Miyagi, Japan
- **Active:** 1998–2006
- **Also known as:** 小林 幸, 明日之丈, まるやま まさお, 丸山 正雄
- **Frequently works with:** Ryosuke Nakamura, Tomohiko Itō, Toshio Nakatani
- **Average Fi1m score:** 84, as producer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 82 (1), 2000s 86 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masao_Maruyama_(film_producer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3297177, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0555470/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/67475

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Perfect Blue*](https://film.one/film/perfect-blue.md) (82)

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## Biography

Masao Maruyama is a Japanese anime producer and entrepreneur. Born on 19 June 1941 in Shiogama, Miyagi, he entered the industry in 1965 at Mushi Productions before co-founding Madhouse in 1972. He served as the studio's president from 1980 and later founded MAPPA in 2011 and Studio M2.

Maruyama has produced or planned numerous television series and films over more than fifty years. His credits include *Perfect Blue* (1997) as producer, *Ninja Scroll* (1993), *Death Note* (2006), *Millennium Actress* (2002), *Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust* (2000), *Monster* (2004) and *In This Corner of the World* (2016). He is noted for early collaborations with directors including Satoshi Kon, Mamoru Hosoda and Sunao Katabuchi. He is chairman of MAPPA and president of Studio M2.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, animenewsnetwork.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Millennium Actress* (2002), Fi1m 86, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/millennium-actress.md)
- *Perfect Blue* (1998), Fi1m 82, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/perfect-blue.md)

## Complete filmography (77)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *PLUTO* (2023), series, Executive Producer
- *Nezumikozo Jirokichi* (2023), Producer
- *One Arm* (2019), Producer
- *Onihei* (2017), series, Producer
- *In This Corner of the World* (2016), Producer
- *Punch Line* (2015), series, Production Supervisor
- *Rage of Bahamut* (2014), series, Production Supervisor
- *Terror in Resonance* (2014), series, Production Supervisor
- *Hunter x Hunter: Phantom Rouge* (2013), Producer
- *Kids on the Slope* (2012), series, Creative Producer
- *Chihayafuru* (2011), series, Creative Producer
- *Death Note Relight 2: L's Successors* (2009), Producer
- *Mokke* (2007), series, Producer
- *Highlander: The Search for Vengeance* (2007), Producer
- *Den-noh Coil* (2007), series, Producer
- *Claymore* (2007), series, Producer
- *Death Note* (2006), series, Producer
- *Black Lagoon* (2006), series, Development Producer
- *NANA* (2006), series, Producer
- *Paradise Kiss* (2005), series, Producer
- *Final Fantasy VII: Last Order* (2005), Producer
- *Monster* (2004), series, Producer
- *Tenjho Tenge* (2004), series, Producer
- *The Gokusen* (2004), series, Producer
- *Aquarian Age: The Movie* (2003), Executive Producer
- *Nasu: Summer in Andalusia* (2003), Producer
- *Hitsuji no Uta* (2003), series, Producer
- *Texhnolyze* (2003), series, Producer
- *Millennium Actress* (2002), Executive Producer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/millennium-actress.md)
- *Trava: Fist Planet* (2002), series, Producer
- *X* (2001), series, Producer
- *X: An Omen* (2001), Producer
- *Metropolis* (2001), Producer
- *Chance Pop Session* (2001), series, Producer
- *Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust* (2001), Producer
- *Reign: The Conqueror Movie* (2000), Producer
- *Fighting Spirit* (2000), series, Creative Producer
- *Sakura Wars* (2000), series, Producer
- *Boogiepop Phantom* (2000), series, Producer
- *Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie* (1999), Executive Producer
- *Pet Shop of Horrors* (1999), series, Producer
- *Master Keaton* (1998), series, Producer
- *TRIGUN* (1998), series, Executive Producer
- *Perfect Blue* (1998), Producer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/perfect-blue.md)
- *Satanika* (1998), Producer
- *X* (1996), Producer
- *Memories* (1995), Producer
- *Azuki-chan the Movie* (1995), Producer
- *Bio Hunter* (1995), Producer
- *Street Fighter* (1995), series, Producer
- *DNA²* (1994), series, Producer
- *Bronze: Cathexis Koji Nanjo* (1994), Producer
- *Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals* (1994), series, Producer
- *A-Girl* (1993), Producer
- *Kiss Me on the Apple of My Eye* (1993), Producer
- *Pops* (1993), Producer
- *Singles* (1993), Producer
- *Desperate Love 1989* (1992), Producer
- *Zetsuai 1989* (1992), series, Producer
- *Doomed Megalopolis* (1991), series, Producer
- *Urusei Yatsura: Terror of Girly-Eyes Measles* (1991), Producer
- *Urusei Yatsura: Goat and Cheese* (1989), Producer
- *Neo Tokyo* (1989), Producer
- *Fairy King* (1988), Producer
- *Girls in Summer Dresses: Hiroshima, August 6, 1945* (1988), Producer
- *Legend of the Galactic Heroes: My Conquest Is the Sea of Stars* (1988), Producer
- *Phoenix: Space Chapter* (1987), Producer
- *Junk Boy* (1987), Producer
- *The Running Man* (1987), Producer
- *Space-Time Traveler - Time Stranger* (1986), Producer
- *Bobby's Girl* (1985), Producer
- *The Dagger of Kamui* (1985), Producer, Production Design
- *Jetter Mars* (1977), series, as Series Composition
- *Aim for the Ace!* (1973), series, Writer
- *Kunimatsu-sama no Otoridai* (1971), series, as Settings
- *Mfinda*, Producer
- *The Dream Machine*, Producer

## Gallery

- ![Masao Maruyama](https://film.one/media/person/87443/gallery-d951fd6e3033.jpg) Masao Maruyama — Grenouille vert, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Masao_Maruyama.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![​行政院新聞局主辦、杜葳廣告承辦之「100年台灣國際漫畫研習營」漫畫出版實務精進學程，丸山正雄（左）、米奇鰻（右）。 (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/87443/gallery-50bb1e58a25d.jpg) ​行政院新聞局主辦、杜葳廣告承辦之「100年台灣國際漫畫研習營」漫畫出版實務精進學程，丸山正雄（左）、米奇鰻（右）。 (2011) — mickeymanzzz, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Masao_Maruyama_and_Mickeyman_%286051574687%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Conference at Japan Expo, Paris. (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/87443/gallery-af82c7f4c10a.jpg) Conference at Japan Expo, Paris. (2012) — Alberto Hernández from París, Francia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Naoki_Urasawa_and_Masao_Maruyama_at_Japan_Expo_2012%2C_Paris_%281%29.jpg/1280px-Naoki_Urasawa_and_Masao_Maruyama_at_Japan_Expo_2012%2C_Paris_%281%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Conference at Japan Expo, Paris. (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/87443/gallery-1397f0602c65.jpg) Conference at Japan Expo, Paris. (2012) — Alberto Hernández from París, Francia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Naoki_Urasawa_and_Masao_Maruyama_at_Japan_Expo_2012%2C_Paris_%282%29.jpg/1280px-Naoki_Urasawa_and_Masao_Maruyama_at_Japan_Expo_2012%2C_Paris_%282%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Conference at Japan Expo, Paris. (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/87443/gallery-f2cbf257ed61.jpg) Conference at Japan Expo, Paris. (2012) — Alberto Hernández, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Naoki_Urasawa_and_Masao_Maruyama_at_Japan_Expo_2012%2C_Paris_%283%29.jpg/1280px-Naoki_Urasawa_and_Masao_Maruyama_at_Japan_Expo_2012%2C_Paris_%283%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Conference at Japan Expo, Paris. (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/87443/gallery-bdc267580540.jpg) Conference at Japan Expo, Paris. (2012) — Alberto Hernández, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Naoki_Urasawa_and_Masao_Maruyama_at_Japan_Expo_2012%2C_Paris_%284%29.jpg/1280px-Naoki_Urasawa_and_Masao_Maruyama_at_Japan_Expo_2012%2C_Paris_%284%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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