Kenji Kamiyama. 神山 健治. 魔戒：洛汗人之戰（ “The War of the Rohirrim.”...2024年）導演 filmmaker Peter Jackson. screenwriting partner Philippa Boyens

When ‘The Lord of the Rings’ Gets the Anime Treatment

“The War of the Rohirrim” is the latest and most high-profile anime adaptation of a Western franchise to hit screens big and small.

When Warner Bros. approached the filmmaker Peter Jackson and his longtime screenwriting partner Philippa Boyens about making a new animated “Lord of the Rings,” Boyens at first had a hard time wrapping her head around the notion. But when studio executives suggested that the film could be told via Japanese anime — suddenly it clicked.

The animator Kenji Kamiyama was hired to direct “The War of the Rohirrim.”Credit...Warner Bros.

Boyens thinks Tolkien would have approved, based on how he furnished his living space at Oxford. “The first thing he bought was some Japanese prints,” Boyens said. “So it made me go: Maybe this was meant to happen.”

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Kenji Kamiyama is a Japanese artist, writer, director, and author. Kenji Kamiyama. 神山 健治. Kamiyama in 2023. Born, (1966-03-20) March 20, 1966 (age 58).