Fuminori Kizaki made a enormous splash onto the anime scene with his direction of the Samuel L. Jackson-starring Afro Samurai in 1998 and its Emmy-winning follow-up Afro Samurai: Resurrection in 2009. Kizaki continued working on high-profile projects after that with films such as Bayonetta: Bloody Fate and miniseries such as an anime remove on the X-Men that aired back in 2011.
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