Eiko Tanaka

Eiko Tanaka is a Japanese anime entrepreneur and producer, the co-founder and current chief executive officer of Studio 4°C and the head of a producing company called Beyond C. She studied Japanese language teaching, worked at an advertising agency and then at Nippon Animation, where she held several production roles at once, and she worked as a line producer with Studio Ghibli on My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service. At Ghibli she met the animators Kōji Morimoto and Yoshiharu Sato, who asked her to set up a studio, and she founded Studio 4°C with them in 1988. It became a limited company in 1999 and a joint-stock company in 2007. She produced Memories, Mind Game, Tekkonkinkreet and co-produced The Animatrix with Warner Bros.