Yoshinori Kitase is a Japanese game director and producer working for Square Enix.
12 Facts About Yoshinori Kitase
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Yoshinori Kitase is known as the director of Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII and Final Fantasy X, and the producer of the Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy XIII series.
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Yoshinori Kitase is currently the head of Square Enix's Creative Business Unit I and the Final Fantasy series Brand Manager.
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Yoshinori Kitase was the head of Square Enix's Business Division 1 during its entire existence as well as a Corporate Executive.
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Yoshinori Kitase is part of the Final Fantasy Committee that is tasked with keeping the franchise's releases and content consistent.
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In July 1978, at the age of 11, Yoshinori Kitase watched the movie Star Wars for the first time and was deeply impressed with it.
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Yoshinori Kitase later examined the making-of video to it and became interested in the creative process of the film industry.
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Yoshinori Kitase decided to attend the Nihon University College of Art and studied screenwriting and filmmaking.
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Yoshinori Kitase has compared this work to directing film actors.
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Yoshinori Kitase continued directing cutscenes in spite of filling other roles in later projects; for example, he directed part of the event scenes in Final Fantasy VIII and was event planner for the Nibelheim section of Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII.
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When many players responded to the sci-fi world of Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VIII by requesting a "simple fantasy world", Yoshinori Kitase tried to expand the definition of the word "fantasy" beyond that of a medieval European setting.
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Yoshinori Kitase supervised the Final Fantasy VII: Technical Demo for PS3.