Education
Murakami attended Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, and worked as an animator at Universal Postal Union in Burbank.
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animator director film producer
Murakami attended Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, and worked as an animator at Universal Postal Union in Burbank.
Among his best-known works are the animated adaptations of the Raymond Briggs books When the Wind Blows and The Snowman. He formed Murakami-Wolf Films with Fred Wolf. As a child, Murakami was interned with his family at the Tule Lake War Relocation Center in northern California.
Following a short stint with Toei Animation in Tokyo, Murakami joined TVC in London in 1960.
He returned to Los Angeles in 1965, and established Murakami Wolf Productions. Murakami then moved to Ireland in 1971 and established Quarteru Films.
He also directed the music video for "King of the Mountain", the single from Kate Bush"s album Aerial. He also worked on 3 films for Roger Corman in the 70"s, including directing Battle Beyond The Stars Murakami was the subject of a 2010 feature documentary film made by Irish director Sé Merry Doyle and produced by Martina Durac and Vanessa Gildea of Loopline Films.
Jimmy Murakami - Non Alien was premiered in Dublin at the 2010 IFI Stranger than Fiction Film Festival.
He died in 2014, aged 80.