{"id":32454,"date":"2014-02-17T09:03:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T14:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=32454"},"modified":"2014-02-17T09:03:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T14:03:41","slug":"director-jimmy-t-murakami-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/17\/director-jimmy-t-murakami-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Director Jimmy T. Murakami, 80"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"JimmyTMurakami\"<\/a>Animator and director Jimmy T Murakami died yesterday at the age of 80.<\/p>\n

Along with animator Fred Wolf, Murakami founded Murakami-Wolf Films, an animation house that supplied animated sequences for the 1973 comedy The Naked Ape<\/strong> and Frank Zappa’s 200 Motels<\/strong>. Murakami also directed the opening segment of 1981’s Heavy Metal<\/strong> titled “Soft Landing.” Murakami served as the supervising director on two adaptations of Raymond Brigg’s children’s books When The Wind Blows<\/strong> and The Snowman<\/strong>, the latter of which was nominated for an Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 1982.<\/p>\n

Murakami had an association with Roger Corman, which started when he worked as an associate producer on the low budget director\/producer’s film Von Richtofen And Brown<\/strong>. Murakami later worked at Corman’s New World Pictures, first directing uncredited some additional material for Humanoids Of The Deep<\/strong> before helming Battle Beyond The Stars<\/strong>, which reset The Seven Samurai<\/strong>\/The Magnificent Seven<\/strong> into a science-fiction setting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The director of Roger Corman’s BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS has died.<\/div>\n

[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[7078,2350,3967,7077,320],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-obituary-news","8":"tag-200-motels","9":"tag-battle-beyond-the-stars","10":"tag-heavy-metal","11":"tag-jimmy-t-murakami","12":"tag-roger-corman"},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t