Takeshi Koike

{{short description|Japanese animator and film director}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1968|1|26}}

| birth_place = Kaminoyama, Yamagata, Japan

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| occupation = film director, animator

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{{Nihongo|Takeshi Koike|小池健|Koike Takeshi}} (born January 26, 1968) is a Japanese animator, illustrator and film director.

Something of a protégé of Yoshiaki Kawajiri,{{cite web |url=http://www.tokyo-source.com/interview.php?ts=60&p=2 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225014545/http://www.tokyo-source.com/interview.php?ts=60&p=2 |archive-date=25 February 2014 |url-status=dead |title=TS60 : Takeshi Koike - Tokyo Source Page 2 |language=Japanese}} he was also influenced by Yoshinori Kanada,{{cite web |url=http://www.tokyo-source.com/interview.php?ts=60 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131228122605/http://www.tokyo-source.com/interview.php?ts=60 |archive-date=28 December 2013 |url-status=dead |title=TS60 : Takeshi Koike - Tokyo Source Page 1 |language=Japanese}} Frank Miller,{{cite web |url=http://outsideintokyo.jp/j/interview/koike_ishii/04.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211207173531/http://outsideintokyo.jp/j/interview/koike_ishii/04.html |archive-date=7 December 2021 |url-status=live |title=OUTSIDE IN TOKYO : Takeshi Koike & Katsuhito Ishii |language=Japanese}}{{cite web |url=http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/11/why-you-cant-miss-redline-an-interview-with-director-takeshi-koike |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121117004113/http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/11/why-you-cant-miss-redline-an-interview-with-director-takeshi-koike |archive-date=17 November 2012 |url-status=dead |title=Why You Can't Miss Redline: An Interview with Director Takeshi Koike |publisher=Tor.com |date=2 November 2011}} Mike Mignola, and Katsuhito Ishii. He went straight from a high school education to beginning his career at Madhouse as an in-betweener on works directed by Kawajiri after being interviewed by him.{{cite interview |interviewer=REDPILL |translator=Mike Arias |publisher=intothematrix.com |title=Takeshi Koike - Animatrix Director: World Record |date=July 2002 |url=http://www.intothematrix.com/rl_cmp/rl_interview_koike.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222004042/http://www.intothematrix.com/rl_cmp/rl_interview_koike.html |archive-date=22 February 2014 |url-status=dead}} His first professional work as director is the title sequence of the 2000 film Party 7; while his first feature film is Redline, which premiered in 2009 and was released in 2010. He served as character designer and animation director for 2012's Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine,{{cite web |url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-03-07/new-lupin-iii-tv-anime-staff-cast-title-revealed |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007225114/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-03-07/new-lupin-iii-tv-anime-staff-cast-title-revealed |archive-date=7 October 2014 |url-status=live |title=New Lupin III TV Anime's Staff, Cast, Title Revealed |date=7 March 2012 |publisher=Anime News Network |access-date=13 September 2014}} and directs film continuations of it starting with Lupin the IIIrd: Daisuke Jigen's Gravestone in 2014.{{cite web |url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-03-20/redline-koike-to-direct-lupin-the-iiird/daisuke-jigen-gravestone-film |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140927101225/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-03-20/redline-koike-to-direct-lupin-the-iiird/daisuke-jigen-gravestone-film |archive-date=27 September 2014 |url-status=live |title=Redline's Koike to Direct Lupin the IIIrd: Daisuke Jigen's Gravestone Film |publisher=Anime News Network |date=20 March 2014 |access-date=13 September 2014}} Work outside of animation includes the artwork for the 2004 Dreams Come True single "Yasashii Kiss o Shite".{{cite web |url=https://www.catsuka.com/focuson/koike_takeshi |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007033204/https://www.catsuka.com/focuson/koike_takeshi |archive-date=7 October 2011 |url-status=live |title=Focus On: Takeshi Koike |publisher=Catsuka |language=fr}}