Sachiko Kamimura

{{short description|Japanese animator}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Sachiko Kamimura

| image = Sachiko Kamimura 20070708 Japan Expo 1.jpg

| caption = Sachiko Kamimura at Japan Expo 2007.

| native_name = 神村 幸子

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1970|12|30}}

| birth_place = Niigata Prefecture, Japan

| nationality = Japanese

| occupation = Animator & character designer

| website = {{URL|http://yaneura2015.web.fc2.com/}}

}}

{{nihongo|Sachiko Kamimura|神村 幸子|Kamimura Sachiko}} is a Japanese animator.{{cite web|url=http://www.pelleas.net/aniTOP/index.php?title=sachiko_kamimura&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1|title=Sachiko Kamimura|date=July 13, 2008|publisher=AniPages Daily|accessdate=1 January 2011}} She is one of Japan's leading animators, and is noted for her work with Sunrise, where she was the supervising animator and character designer for the City Hunter series and several others, mentoring future several Sunrise character designers and animators, including Toshihiro Kawamoto.

Prior to working at Sunrise, Kamimura previously worked at Toei Animation and Walt Disney Animation Japan. She worked as general supervising animator and character designer when the Tezuka Production Company Ltd. made the Black Jack (manga) into a TV series.

Kamimura designed characters and artwork for the anime film and OVA series The Heroic Legend of Arslan and designed them for the Brain Lord video game, as well as producing illustrations for many Japanese novels.

In 2021, Kamimura was appointed Dean of the Kaishi Professional University's Anime and Manga department.{{cite web |title=Faculty of Anime and Manga |url=https://kaishi-pu.ac.jp/department/anime/ |website=Kaishi Professional University |access-date=24 March 2021}}