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Masahiro Sakurai

Musashimurayama, Tokyo, Japan

Biography

Masahiro Sakurai is a Japanese video game director and game designer best known as the creator of the Kirby and Super Smash Bros. series. Apart from his work on those series, he also led the design of Meteos in 2005 and directed Kid Icarus: Uprising in 2012. Formerly an employee of HAL Laboratory, he founded Sora Ltd. in 2005, a company he still leads. He is also an author of a weekly column for Famitsu magazine, and has done voice acting work in some of his games.

Movies

In July 2017 the "Kirby 25th Anniversary Orchestra Concert" was held in Tokyo. The charming concert contain all the finest music performed during this "kirbyish" event, lovingly mixed and mastered for the most delightful sound experience.

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Kirby 25th Anniversary Orchestra Concert
2017

25th Anniversary of Love and Courage: Fire Emblem Festival was an orchestral concert which was part of Intelligent Systems' celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fire Emblem series. The concert was performed by the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra at the Tokyo Dome City Hall in July 2015. This DVD collects the performances and drama sequences from the celebration event with the original voice cast as well as staff members from Nintendo and Intelligent Systems.

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Fire Emblem Festival Love & Courage 25th Anniversary Concert
2016

Join Masahiro Sakurai, director of several Kirby games and the Super Smash Bros. series, as he reflects on his work in the games industry and offers insightful and easy-to-understand advice about game development. The goal? To try and help make games around the world a little more fun!

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Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games
2022