The Coast Guard at the Ogasawara Islands report that Space Battleship Yamatoproducer Yoshinobu Nishizaki passed away due to a fall from a boat at around 12:35 p.m. on Sunday. He was 75.
Nishizaki had fallen from the center starboard section of the 485-ton research steamboat Yamato, which was anchored in Futami Harbor's Ogiura area at the Chichi-jima island in the Ogasawara Islands (Bonin Islands). After a friend sent out a distress call at around 12:45 p.m., the Coast Guard surveillance boat Southern Cross brought Nishizaki into its sickbay about 10 minutes later. He was then rushed to the clinic at the town of Ogasawara by ambulance but was pronounced dead at 2:58 p.m., about two hours and 15 minutes after the fall.
Just last year, Nishizaki produced Space Battleship Yamato Resurrection (Uchuu Senkan Yamato Fukkatsu-hen), the first film in 26 years from the long-running franchise. Part of the reason for the franchise's long dormancy was that Nishizaki, co-creator Leiji Matsumoto, and film distributorTohokushinsha Film Corporation all claimed the right to make new Yamato anime at one time or another in the last two decades.
Nishizaki is also credited as a creator on the live-action Space Battleship Yamato, which just had private screenings in Tokyo and California this past week and will open in Japan next month. Nishizaki also planned the Maeterlinck's Blue Bird and Uchu Kubo Blue Noah television series, co-created Odin - Starlight Mutiny, and was a producer on Umi no Triton and Urotsukidoji.
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