Gorō Ōtani

Gorō Ōtani (born August 15, 1945) is a Japanese video game programmer and designer and filmmaker. He is the father of Ikue Ōtani, who is a voice actress.

Bio
Ōtani was born in Nagasaki on August 15, 1945 to his parents, at the time of the Japanese surrender.

At the age of 13, he enjoyed playing video games, which would be an inspiration for his later video game work.

In June 1977, at the time of the release of the Apple II, Ōtani graduated from Tokyo Institute of Technology, founded a company called Studio Kyubey and began making video games such as Luckytama (, June 24, 1977), Melory (, June 27, 1977), Oshaki (, June 30, 1977), Geracho (, August 3, 1977), etc.

On December 7, 1981, Ōtani began to direct and make movies.