Takeshi Yashiro is a director at Taiyo Kikaku Co., Ltd., a Japanese TV-Commercial production company.
While he directed numerous commercials, he studied various stop-motion animation techniques on his own, utilizing and perfecting them in his commercial and web movie works until 2012 when he began focusing on creating stop-motion animation.
Yashiro’s works have a sense of handmade feelings and is best at story driven movies. His roles include a writer, director, creator of sets and puppets as well as animator.

Yashiro was born in 1969 in Akita prefecture in Japan and graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts in 1993.